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Strategic Sourcing and Negotiation Skills
Harnessing the Potential of Sourcing Business Models for Modern Procurement
Unit - 04
By: Faisal Jalal
Strategic Sourcing Principles
A procurement strategy’s overall objective is to support the ultimate goal
of achieving and sustaining a company’s competitive advantage.
The three prevailing principles in formulating and executing strategic
sourcing are as follows:
• Expenditure Category Strategy Formulation
• Total Supply Cost
• Negotiating Philosophy
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Expenditure Category Strategy Formulation
A product or service’s strategic importance is determined by whether it has an
impact on a company’s core business and future competitiveness.
Expenditure Category Strategic Approach
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Expenditure Category Strategy Formulation
Procurement options
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Total Supply Cost
The Strategic Sourcing concept considers the total cost of supply . This
concept unveils the total cost incurred by the buyer when purchasing
materials and services. The Total Supply Cost (TSC) is an assessment of all
costs—both direct and indirect—involved with an item over the product life.
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Total Supply Cost
The Strategic Sourcing concept considers the total cost of supply . This
concept unveils the total cost incurred by the buyer when purchasing
materials and services. The Total Supply Cost (TSC) is an assessment of all
costs—both direct and indirect—involved with an item over the product life.
Total supply cost
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Total Supply Cost
The benefits of using TSC include:
• Helps focus on total value, core business, quality, yields and cycle time
reduction
• Helps in understanding technical issues beyond price
• Makes it easy to negotiate and communicate based on facts
• Drives suppliers to work on the right issues
• Pinpoints and promotes continuous supplier performance improvement
• Provides in-depth knowledge of key costs and aids in quantifying actual
savings
• Aids in supplier development
• Improves internal and external communications
• Reduces subjectivity
• Allows purchasers to determine if “something is missing”
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Negotiating Philosophy
The successful implementation of strategic sourcing relies largely on the
ability to undertake fact-based negotiations. These use a structured analytical
framework based upon rigorous analysis to achieve a lower total system cost.
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