strategic-sourcing¶

Guides purchasing optimization from spend visibility through supplier relationship management. For business owners, procurement managers, and operations leads who manage ongoing vendor relationships and purchasing categories.

Area: Operations
Category: operations
Level: beginner
Input: conversation
Output: document
Setup: none
Roles: Operations Manager

Sourcing strategy and supplier selection — spend analysis, Kraljic matrix, RFI/RFP/RFQ templates, TCO calculations, BATNA negotiation prep, and initial supplier…

How you ask¶

“Run a spend analysis on our IT services category”
“Classify our top 20 suppliers using the Kraljic matrix”
“Generate an RFP for cloud hosting migration”
“Calculate TCO for switching from Vendor A to Vendor B”
“Prepare a negotiation brief for our logistics contract renewal”
“Build a quarterly supplier scorecard for our three key vendors”
“Review this SaaS contract against standard terms”
“Create a full strategic sourcing plan for our marketing services spend”

Inputs¶

supplier_profiles — Supplier profiles scanned when sourcing or comparing vendors.
region-context — Regional business environment for the target market — Three-Layer Context layer 2; produced by regional-context.
request — What to produce

Outputs¶

strategic-sourcing (markdown)
{company.reports}/strategic-sourcing/strategic-sourcing-{descriptor}.md