Strategic Procurement
Strategic Procurement Planning are those long-term management planning activities that ensure the development of robust procurement strategies to match everchanging market dynamics and support corporate critical goals.
Strategic Procurement Planning (SPP) is Total Business Unit Optimisation strategy focused, rather than just lowest buy-in price and Purchasing Cycle orientated. As such all activities within the Procurement Process, from specification to post transactional development activities are embraced, with the sole long-term objective of continuously supporting enterprise wide goal planning and achievement.
No precise quick cure set of steps and procedures exist. Rather Strategic Procurement Planning (SPP) for any organisation is developed and modified over time according to an organisation’s unique needs on an enterprise wide basis. This is dependent on positive and negative influencers driven by corporate strategy, economic, technological, and political events impacting on the organisation. SPP ensures that informed in-depth planning is accomplished to meet such influencers. This strategic planning ultimately translates into minimised Procurement risk and optimised opportunity.
Karl Furrutter (and associates) offer SPP solutions bespoke to each client’s specific needs, that succinctly address continuous strategy evolution and opportunity/ risk adjustment, both within and outside the Procurement Process. The end goal as always, is the optimised uninterrupted supply of quality resources, that guarantee the Procurement business unit’s ability to support the organisation’s core business objectives.
Tactical Purchasing
By definition, Purchasing is the routine tactical (day to day operational) activities associated with procuring quality materiel, products and services for the organisation, and ensuring the associated administrative management activities such as delivery, expediting, compliance and payment activities are managed effectively and efficiently.
Human Capital Development
To most dynamic Procurement executives, Human Capital and Procurement have become increasingly interdependent due to the fact that the greatest cost in real terms of financial and operational performance is effective human capital.
Specialised Procurement
Furrutter & Associates (Procurement) offers Specialised Procurement consulting and interim management solutions to clients in need of rapid targeted transformation and continuous improvement, within specialised non- mainstream facets of Procurement strategy, both within the short and long term.
Interim & Contract
Furrutter & Associates (Procurement) offers short and medium term Procurement resource solutions to clients that require interim management or Contingency Staffing resources. The greatest benefit of using such resources is to service targeted, unique, discreet or sensitive situations whereby a permanent role-player maybe non-advantageous, unnecessary or impossible to source at short notice or to fill extra capacity staffing needs or sudden gaps and departures.