Strategy is the road map for bringing goals to fruition….
Lauren Mackler
Case Examples

Strategic Planning
Role: Source to Pay business case preparation, project initiation and ROI development, and approval with project responsibility.
Result: Global COUPA / Oracle implementation. Fortune 500 Company

Portfolio Management
Role: Partner Solution Reseller channel identification, selection and development, with project responsibility.
Result: New revenue stream c. 80-90% margins NASDAQ start-up

Non-Core Activity Outsourcing
Role: Warehouse, inventory and logistics operations outsource partner selection, with project oversight.
Result: Transition from fixed to variable costs, saving c. 10%, TUPE staff transfer. LSE 250 Company

Data Insights
Role: Executive and management performance dashboard, Business Intelligence, design with project responsibility.
Result: Creation of new data analytic function and global Power BI system implementation. Fortune 500 Company

Supplier Cleanse
Role: Review of supplier status, activation criteria and approval strategy, with project responsibility.
Result: Approx. 80% reduction in supplier base prior ERP transition to avoid ‘garbage in, garbage out’. Private Company

Target Costing
Role: Process creation to pilot Design to Target Cost, to drive increased manufacturer collaboration, leveraging value engineering, with project oversight.
Result: Right quality, right price and right time project success. Foundation for new win/win strategy. Fortune 500 Company

Category Management
Role: Kraljic matrix and pareto assessment to redefine procurement and finance category structure (asset and non asset chart of accounts) with project oversight.
Result: Execution of combined finance and category procurement chart of accounts. Fortune 500 Company

Know Your Supplier
Role: Due diligence, Supply side code of conduct, risk factor scorecard and GRC (governance, risk and compliance) system design, with project responsibility.
Result: Operational implementation of integrated risk management into a digitalized supplier on-boarding and review process. Fortune 500 Company

Benchmarking
Role: Datacentre $ per MW cost estimation modelling, CAPEX and OPEX validation.
Result: Business and budget cost target. Private Company

Team Building
Role: Strategic Procurement Business case formation, role definitions and leadership alignment communications.
Result: New function recruitment and talent hire to support revised operating model and business goals
Fortune 500 Company

Data Migration
Role: Modification of execution strategy associated with supplier master data and purchase order data transfer, with project responsibility
Result: ‘Data migration, not recreation‘ to significantly reduce man years of migration transition effort. Avoidance of critical path. Private Company

Cycle Time
Role: Simplification of Delegation of Authority, and process automation design, options and benefits, with project responsibility.
Result: New process flow implementation and reduction of PR to PO approval cycle time by 65%. Fortune 500 Company

Project Management
Role: Team induction skills development project management training.
Result: Goal directed project management application to New Product Introduction (NPI) process. FTSE100 company

Right First Time
Role: Total Quality, Lean Six Sigma, zero defect, order management process redesign, with project responsibility.
Result: Reduction in order rework. Circa 95% right first time quality. Fortune 500 Company

Tail End Spend
Role: New policy and order management process definition and design for low value, low risk goods and services to ease user and cross-functional engagement, with project responsibility.
Result: Implementation of lighter touch process approval workflow for simple goods and services. Fortune 500 Company

Contract Management
Role: Functional requirements capture, design and development, with project responsibility.
Result: Digitalized global contract repository implementation to support contract lifecycle management policies.
Non for profit Company

Project Management Information System
Role: Business process flow and user effort assessment
Result: Collaborative project and document management system business case approval.
Private Company

Punch-out catalog
Role: Category and supplier identification to accelerate adoption of supplier managed catalogs, with project responsibility.
Result: Implementation of supplier hosted user self-service catalog order management utilizing seamless cXML integration with in-house procurement system. Fortune 500 Company

Payment Cards
Role: P-Card strategy and policy creation and development, with project responsibility.
Result: Global virtual payment card
deployment, policy and user management communications to ensure adoption. Non for profit Company
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