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Strategic Sourcing
Overview:
As the sourcing industry continues to grow, business and IT executives refine the disciplined provisioning and blending of business and Information Technology services from the optimal set of internal and external providers in the pursuit of cost reductions and increased operational efficiency and effectiveness. With the shift to managed services and global services delivery, strategic sourcing can be laden with opportunities and also fraught with risk.
StrataFusion’s team of senior IT and sourcing experts bring their deep industry knowledge and rich experience to help companies with their most challenging and complex sourcing projects. Whether it's strategy, brokering a transaction, or optimizing the managed services, we create an immediate impact through strategic sourcing delivering bottom line savings and value.
Strategic Sourcing
Methodology:
StrataFusion’s proprietary and proven Strategic Sourcing methodology represents a valuable toolkit that embodies our greatest asset: StrataFusion’s collective knowledge capital. It has been built over many years, across a multiplicity of engagements, and by the contribution of numerous seasoned management consulting and Strategic Sourcing thought-leaders.
Our methodology is used to bring StrataFusion's solutions to clients using a phased approach and proven best practices to deliver rapid returns and reduced risk. It is empirical, comprehensive, and flexible with an underlying component framework that is mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. Our methodology lays out a distinct sequence and tasks for the completion of a Strategic Sourcing initiative optimizing the delivery of successful results. For more details about our methodology, please contact Shevy Magen at smagen@stratafusion.com or +1 310 880 8788.
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's Assessment stage helps optimize program decision-making by evaluating the current-state environment for all Strategic Sourcing opportunities, shortcomings with the status quo, and the relative value of opportunities for each functional tower and strategic sourcing scenario under consideration.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Strategic Sourcing Drivers
- Financial & Indicative Pricing Analysis
- Services Maturity Market Scan
- Opportunity Map & Executive Report
- High-Level Action Plan
OVERVIEW
The primary objective of StrataFusion's Definition stage is to create the definitive and authoritative position on the 'blueprint' for the program -- so that every individual and team is working towards the same goal, and that every stakeholder is expecting the same outcomes.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Detailed Strategic Sourcing Scenario Analysis
- Sourcing Risk Analysis
- Sourcing Governance Best Practices
- Organizational Readiness
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StrataFusion's deal Structuring leadership helps you develop a comprehensive contract package which is the core component of an RFP. StrataFusion manages a competition-based process that culminates with a ready-to-sign contract significantly reducing risk & ensuring alignment with market pricing.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- SLA's & Market-Based Pricing Models
- Contract SOWs (Clearly Defining Services Plus Roles & Responsibilities)
- Key Contract Terms & Conditions
- RFP Development
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's Source stage helps manage the Service Provider selection process including internal and external communications, the process of clarification, and the evaluation of all competitive Service Provider bids across key scoring dimensions (Business Alignment, Technical Capabilities, Pricing, & Risk)SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Service Provider Evaluations
- Selection Scoring
- Due-Diligence
- BAFO Negotiations
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's Transition leadership helps clients focus on the Sourcing transformation activities required for the organization to take ownership of the post-go-live cutover of services. We support execution against the contracted transition plan that coordinates the deployment of all solution components, integration, resources, and training.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Executed Transition and Integration Reports
- Contact and Service Provider Escalation Facilitation & Prioritization
- Governance Intelligence & Reporting
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StrataFusion's Optimization stage helps organizations to effectively manage the ongoing support of Strategic Sourcing services, while ensuring that innovation and new business requirements are addressed and adopted effectively.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Multi-Sourcing Governance
- Services Optimization
- ROI Validation Report
- Optimization Action Plan
- Contract Health-Check
- Contract Remediation
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StrataFusion's Program Management leadership helps establish the creation of a Program Charter that articulates the purpose, scope, and operation of the PMO. StrataFusion's Change Management leadership helps to eliminate the program risk specifically associated with the human component of the change initiative by implementing methods for improving personnel acceptance and adoption.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Program Charter
- Program Management Standards
- Communication Plan
- Program Management Toolkit
- Change Management Dashboard
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