Initial Situation A company with 12 departments has very different ordering needs: Production needs tools and lubricants, marketing orders printed materials and promotional items, IT needs hardware an…
Initial Situation A trading company with 250 employees orders 800 line items monthly. Spot checks reveal: 15% of ordered articles are 20-50% above available market price. Employees don't actively comp…
Initial Situation The strategic procurement team of an industrial company has invested significant time and effort into negotiating framework agreements with 15 key vendors, securing 5 to 15% off the …
Initial Situation In a company with 500 employees, orders over €200 require approval. The process runs via email: orderer sends request, supervisor approves (or forgets). Average approval time: 3.2 da…
Initial Situation A company with 400 employees discovers that 30% of orders run outside framework agreements. Employees order from arbitrary vendors, sometimes luxury items or personal goods through c…
Initial Situation A mid-sized company runs indirect procurement on the basis of a comprehensive 20-page procurement policy. The policy covers all the right topics: mandatory use of preferred vendors, …