3 Best Practices for Buying Commodities in 2015

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* 1. Contact Information

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Company

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* 2. Does your company struggle with any of the following (please click all that apply)?

Aggregating demand across disparate purchasing locations to create global contracts.

Developing an efficient means of sharing and collecting RFI/RFQ responses particularly when there are complex drawings to be shared (e.g. lots of downloading, uploading data)

Manual order fulfillment including emailing suppliers to make changes to PO’s regarding delivery, change in order quantities etc.

Manual updating of SAP in addition to the emails, PDF documents and excel

Manual data collection of supplier score card data in excel

Managing complex cost break-downs with hundreds of fields of data that suppliers must complete (typically done in excel)

Inability to drive supplier rationalization despite internal initiatives (e.g. local plants are still buying from their favorites)

Implementing a global category management strategy (e.g. plants go rogue or buy off their own arrangements)

Setting up a sequential “CPO Roadmap” to procurement transformation (e.g. lack of budget to implement “everything” or need to take on projects after ROI/benefits accrue from prior initiatives?)

Poor means of managing quality data from complaints to sample testing to warranties/claims etc.

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* 3. Which of these issues is a top priority (please click no more than 3 items)?

Aggregating demand across disparate purchasing locations to create global contracts.

Developing an efficient means of sharing and collecting RFI/RFQ responses particularly when there are complex drawings to be shared (e.g. lots of downloading, uploading data)

Manual order fulfillment including emailing suppliers to make changes to PO’s regarding delivery, change in order quantities etc.

Manual updating of SAP in addition to the emails, PDF documents and excel

Manual data collection of supplier score card data in excel

Managing complex cost break-downs with hundreds of fields of data that suppliers must complete (typically done in excel)

Inability to drive supplier rationalization despite internal initiatives (e.g. local plants are still buying from their favorites)

Implementing a global category management strategy (e.g. plants go rogue or buy off their own arrangements)

Poor means of managing quality data from complaints to sample testing to warranties/claims etc.

Not Applicable

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* 4. How do you plan on addressing this issue(s)? (Please click all that apply)

We have an internal project running to address this in 2015.

We are hiring or have hired an outside party such as a consultant or expert to help us address this.

We are considering a technology solution to help support this.

We intend to address this but we have no current plan or strategy to address it.