strategic sourcing best practice

Procurement organizations are increasingly powerful with some controlling as much as 50% of the organization’s spending. Can they handle the challenges of the 21st century organization such as decreasing supply chain complexity, reducing product time to market and stimulating supplier innovation? What needs to change?

Can Information Technology, which is critical to an organization's success, deliver without a sourcing capability? The authors argue that not only is a sourcing strategy critical to IT value but also that a successful strategy requires a focus away from cost to competency.

This outsourcing playbook discusses five best practices that can make all the difference between success and failure of an outsourcing initiative.

The authors argue that implementing an information communication platform that promotes secure knowledge exchange between client and service provider is critical to engendering trust which is the foundation for outsourcing success. This paper presents a best practice framework for client-service provider communications.

This research paper stresses the need for an effective communication strategy to ensure success of an outsourcing initiative - to be effective a communication strategy must have both an internal and external component with its own objectives, guidelines, and tactics.

This paper introduces strategic sourcing and makes a clear distinction between "reactive, tactical and strategic sourcing" and "encourages purchasing and supply management professionals to move away from the former and to take a more proactive and strategic approach."

This paper discusses the key learning/best practices, that lead to high performance outsourcing, gleaned from the masters i.e. executives who have been there, done that and can claim success in the world of outsourcing services! 

This research paper discusses the outsourcing life cycle, what should be outsourced, and best practices for data center outsourcing.

This white paper discusses vendor management best practices for successful IT and business process outsourcing.