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Procurement Framework Review

As part of their University Strategy 2030 – the university necessitated a review of their purchasing practises and the creation of a roadmap to help them achieve their long-term goals. ArcBlue were engaged to review the procurement process and function.

This entailed the review of the structure, optimal team size, governance, policy and opportunity analysis to ensure the university procurement team could service its stakeholders. Including:

  • Review the current procurement organisational structure and processes
  • Review existing procurement processes
  • Define the current state of procurement activity through data collection and analysis
  • Carry out spend and opportunities analysis to identify potential direct and indirect savings
  • Develop a Strategic Roadmap including identifying learning and development, and capability opportunities

As a result, a list of suggestions and options for implementation was produced. These options included the appointment of a Chief Procurement Officer, updated policies, procedures, and documentation, introduction of a catalogue system, creating of category strategies, and identification of savings opportunities and top priorities.

Need help to develop your Procurement framework?

ArcBlue’s experienced team will review, refine and develop your new procurement framework to simplify, reduce risk and ensure your practices reflect a value for money and probity-driven service; Create a better procurement framework to become more customer-centric with your stakeholders.

We assess your policy, processes and templates to understand the current state and identify opportunities to improve procurement compliance. We do this by engaging with diverse stakeholder groups at all levels before designing and developing process flows, documentation, templates and user guidance to ensure an improved user experience.

We also provide training and implementation services to support the implementation of the new framework – including leadership, change management expertise and hands-on implementation and guidance material.

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