Digital Procurement Survey

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* 1. Does my company have a program in place to digitize procurement and the various procurement processes?

Yes, all procurement processes are being looked at to be digitized.

Partly

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* 2. Do I measure the performance of my key suppliers and do they know what they need to do to become a better supplier to me?

The supplier will only hear from me on their performance when they are not delivering

The performance of the key suppliers is measured but not shared

The performance of the key suppliers is measured and shared. Suppliers are actively working to become a better supplier to me.

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* 3. How do suppliers provide commercial proposals and other information to me?

Mostly by e-mail

Through a combination of e-mail and an e-sourcing tool

Mostly through an e-sourcing tool

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* 4. How do buyers in my organization get to the information that they need to do sourcing work?

They talk to the other departments to obtain specifications, volumes and other requirements

They go into various tools to obtain specifications, volumes, etc....

They have access to certain key data from their laptop and the data is brought together into a single data structure.

All data related to suppliers, the supply chain, volumes, etc...is presented to buyers holistically in a big data platform.

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* 5. How do my suppliers know what I need from them?

They receive my requirements mostly by e-mail which I prepare manually

They receive my requirements via portal or e-mail which are automatically created from my ERP system.

They receive my requirements electronically and these mostly flow automatically into the suppliers ERP system.

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* 6. Does your company have an e-invoicing initiative and what % of invoices are received electronically?

Yes, between 0 and 20%

Between 20 and 40%

Between 40 and 60%

Between 60 and 80%

More than 80%

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* 7. Are your suppliers encouraged to provide e-catalogs to ease the ordering process and ensure the correct prices are being charged?

Sometimes but not consistently

All suppliers who provide goods and services are encouraged to provide digital catalogs and or price lists.

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* 8. Are advanced e-sourcing tools like scenario optimization used in your organization?

No, what is a scenario optimization tool?

Yes, but only infrequently.

Yes, whenever it makes sense. More than 50% of my buyers understand the power of such tools and knows when to use them.

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* 9. How is the performance of the sourcing organization tracked?

All KPI’s (savings, supplier innovation, value creation, payment terms, etc...) is measured consistently across the organization and available to everyone.

The various KPI’s are tracked by different organizations in different tools.

KPI’s scores are available but not consistently tracked.

What are KPI’s?

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* 10. How comfortable are my
buyers to deal with large sets of data and can they present sourcing options in a data based way?

Very comfortable. They are able to leverage data visualization tools like Power BI to present options on multiple vectors.

Somewhat comfortable. Excel is widely used but other tools are not well known.

Sourcing decisions are usually not presented in a data based way.

Digital Procurement

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* 1. Does my company have a program in place to digitize procurement and the various procurement processes?

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* 2. Do I measure the performance of my key suppliers and do they know what they need to do to become a better supplier to me?

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* 3. How do suppliers provide commercial proposals and other information to me?

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* 4. How do buyers in my organization get to the information that they need to do sourcing work?

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* 5. How do my suppliers know what I need from them?

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* 6. Does your company have an e-invoicing initiative and what % of invoices are received electronically?

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* 7. Are your suppliers encouraged to provide e-catalogs to ease the ordering process and ensure the correct prices are being charged?

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* 8. Are advanced e-sourcing tools like scenario optimization used in your organization?

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* 9. How is the performance of the sourcing organization tracked?

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* 10. How comfortable are mybuyers to deal with large sets of data and can they present sourcing options in a data based way?

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* 11. Please provide your e-mail address

* 10. How comfortable are my
buyers to deal with large sets of data and can they present sourcing options in a data based way?