Core Competencies - Strategic Sourcing
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Charteris consultants offer a blend of business, IT, commercial, facilitation and negotiation skills that help clients establish and manage strategic supplier relationships.
As many of our consultants have held senior supply-side positions, we are able to help our clients to negotiate an effective business relationship for all parties. We are able to draw on direct experience of a wide range of supply models and their effective application in the specific context of our clients' businesses. We are able to determine which suppliers align best with business need now and in the future, and we recognise the importance of outsourced relationships in business agility.
We support our clients by applying our many years of experience in:
- Identification, clarification and prioritisation of business requirements.
- Advising on and establishing effective sourcing arrangements.
- Management of supplier selection processes.
- Improving contractual and management arrangements to maintain effective supplier relationships.
- Optimising the supplier base.
- Using advanced technologies for supplier communications, including extranet services and mobile technologies.
- Defining appropriate measures of supplier performance and establishing appropriate performance incentives.