Sourcing and Logistics: How are we doing compared to our industry?

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Sourcing and Logistics Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Sourcing and Logistics related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

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The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Sourcing and Logistics specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with…

The latest quick edition of the Sourcing and Logistics Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals…

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 619 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Sourcing and Logistics improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 619 standard requirements:

Does the Sourcing and Logistics task fit the client’s priorities?
What problems are you facing and how do you consider Sourcing and Logistics will circumvent those obstacles?
How are we doing compared to our industry?
Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Sourcing and Logistics work? How is the team addressing them?
What are the stakeholder objectives to be achieved with Sourcing and Logistics?
Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?
How often are the team meetings?
Was a detailed process map created to amplify critical steps of the ‘as is’ stakeholder process?
What is the overall business strategy?
Why don’t our customers like us?

Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Sourcing and Logistics book in PDF containing 619 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in…

Your Sourcing and Logistics self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Sourcing and Logistics Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Sourcing and Logistics areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Sourcing and Logistics Self-Assessment
Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Sourcing and Logistics projects with the 62 implementation resources:

62 step-by-step Sourcing and Logistics Project Management Form Templates covering over 6000 Sourcing and Logistics project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

Stakeholder Management Plan: Is it possible to track all classes of Sourcing and Logistics project work (e.g. scheduled, un-scheduled, defect repair, etc.)?
Activity Cost Estimates: Is there anything unique in this Sourcing and Logistics project s scope statement that will affect resources?
Quality Management Plan: Does a documented Sourcing and Logistics project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
WBS Dictionary: The WBS is developed as part of a Joint Planning session. But how do you know that youve done this right?
Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Do managers and team members provide helpful suggestions during review meetings?
Project Performance Report: To what degree will the approach capitalize on and enhance the skills of all team members in a manner that takes into consideration other demands on members of the team?
Scope Management Plan: Are assumptions being identified, recorded, analyzed, qualified and closed?
Risk Management Plan: A determination to transfer a risk may be made during which step of risk management?
Cost Management Plan: Have the reasons why the changes to the organizational systems and capabilities are required?
Schedule Management Plan: Do Sourcing and Logistics project teams & team members report on status / activities / progress?

Step-by-step and complete Sourcing and Logistics Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

1.1 Sourcing and Logistics project Charter
1.2 Stakeholder Register
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix

2.0 Planning Process Group:

2.1 Sourcing and Logistics project Management Plan
2.2 Scope Management Plan
2.3 Requirements Management Plan
2.4 Requirements Documentation
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
2.6 Sourcing and Logistics project Scope Statement
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
2.9 WBS Dictionary
2.10 Schedule Management Plan
2.11 Activity List
2.12 Activity Attributes
2.13 Milestone List
2.14 Network Diagram
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
2.19 Sourcing and Logistics project Schedule
2.20 Cost Management Plan
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
2.23 Cost Baseline
2.24 Quality Management Plan
2.25 Quality Metrics
2.26 Process Improvement Plan
2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
2.30 Communications Management Plan
2.31 Risk Management Plan
2.32 Risk Register
2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
2.35 Risk Data Sheet
2.36 Procurement Management Plan
2.37 Source Selection Criteria
2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
2.39 Change Management Plan

3.0 Executing Process Group:

3.1 Team Member Status Report
3.2 Change Request
3.3 Change Log
3.4 Decision Log
3.5 Quality Audit
3.6 Team Directory
3.7 Team Operating Agreement
3.8 Team Performance Assessment
3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
3.10 Issue Log

4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

4.1 Sourcing and Logistics project Performance Report
4.2 Variance Analysis
4.3 Earned Value Status
4.4 Risk Audit
4.5 Contractor Status Report
4.6 Formal Acceptance

5.0 Closing Process Group:

5.1 Procurement Audit
5.2 Contract Close-Out
5.3 Sourcing and Logistics project or Phase Close-Out
5.4 Lessons Learned

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Sourcing and Logistics project with this in-depth Sourcing and Logistics Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

Diagnose Sourcing and Logistics projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
Integrate recent advances in Sourcing and Logistics and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, ‘What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?’

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Sourcing and Logistics investments work better.

This Sourcing and Logistics All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person: