Caché Procurement’s focus is to assist our clients to achieve successful business outcomes and obtain value for their money spent.
- We are procurement experts in training, procurement & strategic sourcing consulting, and “Procure-to-Pay” solutions.
- We are a group of highly experienced professionals with significant breadth and
- depth of hands-on experience that provide specialized procurement training and advisory services.
- From strategic sourcing to technology solutions, we can assist with the entire “Procure-to-Pay” life-cycle.
Our Experience
Our experience is global and comes from all sectors and all sizes of companies. We have diverse global backgrounds in such industries as; Apparel, Construction, Food & Beverage, Energy, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Real Estate, and Technology & Telecommunications.
We work with clients from all over the world and they all have one thing in common: They are concerned that their procurement organizations and solutions may not be delivering world-class results or on the savings expectations that the company has for the procurement organization.
We can engage at any point of an organizations procurement process, from the analysis, planning and scoping of the business requirements, through to the transactional and payment process. We can assist with your technology transformation in such areas as; Source-to-Settle, e-Procurement, Spend Analytics, Purchasing Cards, Reverse Auctions and many more procurement solutions.
Transforming a Procurement Organization
Typically procurement organizations are expected to continually deliver more savings and greater value to the company, but how? We follow a well established and successful process that helps transform your procurement organization into a world-class organization that delivers value to the enterprise year after year. Our process starts with…
- Defining the Scope of Your Procurement Transformation – What will be different a year from now, in 2 years or in 3 years? What is your organizational structure? What technology do you use? What is your supply base? We also ensure that your goals are aligned with your senior leadership’s expectations for the transformation.
- Establishing a Day-One Analysis of Your Current State of Resources, Processes, and Technology – How many of your people have degrees or have professional procurement certifications? Percentage of your spend is under contract and the amount of non-compliant spend in the enterprise? Solid documentation and statistics of your current state are provided to help assess the progress of your transformation.
- Creating a Tailored Analysis and Developing a Transformation Plan – Set your transformational priorities and initiatives by level of effort and impact. Target quick wins first to build momentum. Help you quickly gain the trust of the procurement team and internal stakeholders in the process and the eventual outcomes.
- Developing Key Stakeholder Relationships – Present your procurement transformation plan with internal stakeholders and leadership to obtain their support and ensure organizational alignment. Work with them to identify potential roadblocks. We also help to discuss the future benefits of this change with all internal stakeholders to avoid hitting resistance later in the transformation.
- Setting Service Level Expectations – Help to avoid over promising so that you don’t lose credibility and support that is key for a successful transformation. Aligning on the transformation methodology you’ll use, rather than arbitrary dates, will result in a smoother transition to the new organizational state.
Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Process Assessment
We offer an in-depth business process assessment of your current and potential future state of your P2P process. We evaluate your current P2P process, your operating procedures, spend and transaction levels associated with your entire enterprise. Most often this is associated to usually indirect procurement categories. This assessment consists of the following:
- Current State Mapping
- Technological Review
- Spend Categories Affected
- KPI and Metrics Development
- Identification of Potential P2P Solutions
We help provide a roadmap to an integrated and optimized Procure-to-Pay process. Our focus is to help our clients increase productivity and decrease operational costs, while leveraging their current & future systems.
Strategic Sourcing & Category Management
Our international expertise in strategic sourcing and category management is a core foundation of Caché Procurement. Our consultants have a vast knowledge base of procurement categories, some of which are list here:
