The provision of a mutually advantageous contract with chosen suppliers through the navigation of conflicting business demand requirements, the optimisation of overall spend and the guarantee of service delivery quality.
To strategically source any aspect of an organisation’s business is a significant and challenging undertaking, especially across complex organisational structures. The sourcing landscape has dramatically changed over the last few years; organisations are now looking to buy ‘everything as a service’ and are putting in place complex multi-sourcing structures.
Hudson & Yorke’s sourcing service accelerates the execution of the sourcing process and results in a sustainable win-win contract that benefits both you and your supplier(s). We help you navigate today’s complicated sourcing world.
- Sourcing process management: We guide you through our clear, yet flexible sourcing methodology and help you plan and manage the entire sourcing process to avoid ‘timeline drift’.
- Requirements definition and RFP production: We take you through a series of structured workshops and assist you to clearly articulate your requirements. We then customise our comprehensive RFP template based on your requirements.
- Due diligence capture and validation: We deliver a detailed audit of your current estate and manage the suppliers’ access to and validation of that data throughout the sourcing programme.
- Supplier evaluation and financial modelling: We provide you with evaluation tools and templates to allow you to compare supplier responses in an unbiased manner.
- Contract development and negotiation: We assist you in developing a robust, bespoke contract by customising our contractual templates to meet your requirements. We use a time-boxed approach and parallel workstreams to ensure that a contract is agreed within planned timescales.
- Business case development: We develop and manage the business case with you .Our approach ensures consistency, clarity and completeness, and alignment to your finance processes.
- Transition planning: We assist you in reviewing the suppliers’ transition plans and we help you identify what internal activities you will need to complete as part of transition.
Our experience and specialist focus delivers you a contract in the minimum timeframe possible and optimises your business case. We guarantee a return on your investment in our services.