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        Company Procurement Guide          Assessment & Roadmap

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 Customer Problem

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  • Many manufacturers struggle to meet aggressive supplier cost save or other SCM objectives, risking business plan, poor performance reviews, lost compensation, long hours to fix this

  • Lack resources to create robust supply chain improvement roadmaps

  • No recent benchmarking to quantify gaps and leverage best SCM practices from many industries

Our solution: 5 week Co. Procurement Guide Assessment/Roadmap

  • Identifies & prioritizes opportunities and action plans to help your team accelerate procurement value across the company for production and indirect spend including logistics 

  • Provides significant cost savings, inventory reductions, supplier quality/delivery/relationship improvements, helping your team surpass performance objectives!

  • Roadmap includes 10-12 high impact improved value and process improvement recommendations with clear savings/benefits, any resource requirements, timing

  • DSGA offers to help your team implement any of the major roadmap actions for guaranteed savings

Our
Process
DSGA Principal Drew Sheffield: 

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  • 25+ years outstanding achievements and experience leading global procurement

  • Buyer to Purchasing Director at Ford

  • Global Purchasing Director at TI & ZF

  • Board of Governors & Chair MEMA/OESA Chief Purchasing Officer's Council

  • Member of Wayne State University's Supply Chain Management Advisory Board

  • Recognized expert in corporate procurement, procurement expert witness

  • Leading engagements for manufacturers across industries since 2020

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leads all steps of this engagement.

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We assess & benchmark your company procurement strategies and practices and work closely with your teams to develop a high impact actionable roadmap! 

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Scope covers production & indirect spend including logistics:

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  1. Procurement Strategy & Organization Alignment

  2. Supplier Management

  3. Commodity/Category Strategies & Cost

  4. Employee Development

  5. Technology (Analytics, AI ...)​

 Document Review

  • Organization Charts

  • Performance Objectives

  • Procurement Procedures

  • Spend Detail

  • Commodity/Supplier Strategies

  • Supplier Performance/Scorecards

  • Major Supply Contracts

  • Organization charts

  • Company & Procurement Objectives

  • Purchasing/Supplier Quality Procedures

  • Spend Reports (by Division, Region, Commodity, Major Suppliers...)

  • Commodity or Category Strategies

  • Supplier Scorecards

  • Supplier Contracts

 1x1 Interviews

Interview

  Company & Division:

  • Purchasing VPs (& Logistics leads)

  • PUR Commodity Team Leaders (if applicable)

  • Supplier Quality leads

  • Presidents or EVPs

  • Finance leads 

  • Operations/Plant Managers

B-I-C Survey

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  • 60Q Best-In-Class Survey

  • ~15 x-functional leaders at client 

  • Client & DSGA ratings correlated

  • Benchmark vs other manufacturers

  • Identifies weaker areas to prioritize for further reviews/recommendations

  • Identifies strengths to leverage

Commodity Team Mtgs.

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  • Visit plant, review major production/ indirect/logistics spend & SCM insights

  • Meetings with 2-3 of the top impact Commodity/Category Teams

  • Review challenges/opportunities

  • Work with teams to enhance insights & improve project recommendations

  • Quantify opportunities, resources, key actions, timing

Executive Recommendations

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  • ~10 Recommendations covering production/logistics/indirect spend

  • High quantified savings with any resource requirements & timing

  • DSGA offers to help client implement savings.  Very high ROI!

  • Outstanding SCM Value including:

  TOTAL COST  QUALITY/SERVICE  DELIVERY/INVENTORY   TECH.​

Excellent Job! I love this presentation! DS Group Advisors provided detailed recommendations for $4.3-5.6M in high confidence (mostly incremental) 1st year savings plus big improvements in Vendor Managed Inventory, spend visibility, and introduction of a high impact supplier scorecard across divisions.  

Vice President of Supply Chain & Logistics, $350M Global Electronics Manufacturer

Avoid negative consequences of missing your cost savings & other SCM objectives:

  • poor performance reviews, lost compensation, slower career advancement

  • stress and long hours to identify & execute new roadmap actions

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We have time next week for a complimentary discovery call.  Would this work well for you?  

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