- How does your capability compare to your peers?
- Does your team have the skills to deliver success, both now and in the future?
- Are you recruiting and keeping the best employees?
- Are you getting the most from your category management and strategic sourcing?
- Can your teams take the lead to drive the change required to make an impact?
The opportunity for procurement to raise its profile is huge, but only if the team can raise its game. It is no longer good enough to be a tough negotiator. Procurement teams need to possess both hard commercial skills and soft leadership and influencing skills to succeed. They also have to have the gravitas to hold their own in the board room. Many Procurement functions are lacking on both fronts; leading companies are tackling this through proactive talent management, role profiling, recruitment and focussed training.
Whilst most organisations claim to have implemented Category Management and Strategic Sourcing, many fail to deploy them properly, missing out on opportunities to deliver benefits to their internal clients. This is normally because their staff have not been trained in these core skills, or because the approaches themselves have not been implemented properly.
Once we have understood where the gaps are, we can help you fill them. We can ensure that your core, value-adding processes are deployed and being used to drive maximum value. We can provide development plans and training for your team, and we can educate your customers on the benefits of working with Procurement. We are experienced trainers and facilitators and have developed courses in all aspects of Procurement. Whatever your need, we can tailor a learning approach to suit your priorities.
F4P has years of experience in both assessing and enhancing procurement capability. Our Capability Assessment Tool maps skills across a number of attributes, and compares them to our database. We also give expert advice on capability gaps based on our experience: F4P’s consultants have worked for many leading edge organisations and have consulted across most industry sectors, giving us a good feel for ‘what good looks like’.
