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Sourcing and Logistics: What is the total cost related to deploying Sourcing and Logistics, including any consulting or professional services?

Documents

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.

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

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:

  1. Is the team adequately staffed with the desired cross-functionality? If not, what additional resources are available to the team?

  2. Who are you going to put out of business, and why?

  3. Who, on the executive team or the board, has spoken to a customer recently?

  4. What is the total cost related to deploying Sourcing and Logistics, including any consulting or professional services?

  5. How are you going to measure success?

  6. How do the Sourcing and Logistics results compare with the performance of your competitors and other organizations with similar offerings?

  7. Think about the kind of project structure that would be appropriate for your Sourcing and Logistics project. should it be formal and complex, or can it be less formal and relatively simple?

  8. What is your theory of human motivation, and how does your compensation plan fit with that view?

  9. Is the current ‘as is’ process being followed? If not, what are the discrepancies?

  10. How does Sourcing and Logistics integrate with other stakeholder initiatives?

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:

  1. Procurement Audit: Was the tender clearly and properly specified, including evaluation criteria and knowing about the market and therefore not over-prescriptive and receptive to innovation?
  2. Work Breakdown Structure: Is the Work breakdown Structure (WBS) defined and is the scope of the Sourcing and Logistics project clear with assigned deliverable owners?
  3. Decision Log: How does the use a Decision Support System influence the strategies/tactics or costs?
  4. Procurement Management Plan: Have Sourcing and Logistics project team accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?
  5. Cost Management Plan: Are procurement deliverables arriving on time and to specification?
  6. Activity Duration Estimates: Are adjustments implemented to correct or prevent defects?
  7. Activity Cost Estimates: If you are asked to lower your estimate because the price is too high, what are your options?
  8. Executing Process Group: Have operating capacities been created and/or reinforced in partners?
  9. Probability and Impact Assessment: What are the levels of understanding of the future users of the outcome/results of this Sourcing and Logistics project?
  10. Activity Duration Estimates: What are some of the ways to create and distribute Sourcing and Logistics project performance information?

 
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:

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

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

Documents

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.

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

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:

  1. Does the Sourcing and Logistics task fit the client’s priorities?

  2. What problems are you facing and how do you consider Sourcing and Logistics will circumvent those obstacles?

  3. How are we doing compared to our industry?

  4. Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Sourcing and Logistics work? How is the team addressing them?

  5. What are the stakeholder objectives to be achieved with Sourcing and Logistics?

  6. Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?

  7. How often are the team meetings?

  8. Was a detailed process map created to amplify critical steps of the ‘as is’ stakeholder process?

  9. What is the overall business strategy?

  10. 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:

  1. Stakeholder Management Plan: Is it possible to track all classes of Sourcing and Logistics project work (e.g. scheduled, un-scheduled, defect repair, etc.)?
  2. Activity Cost Estimates: Is there anything unique in this Sourcing and Logistics project s scope statement that will affect resources?
  3. Quality Management Plan: Does a documented Sourcing and Logistics project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
  4. WBS Dictionary: The WBS is developed as part of a Joint Planning session. But how do you know that youve done this right?
  5. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Do managers and team members provide helpful suggestions during review meetings?
  6. 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?
  7. Scope Management Plan: Are assumptions being identified, recorded, analyzed, qualified and closed?
  8. Risk Management Plan: A determination to transfer a risk may be made during which step of risk management?
  9. Cost Management Plan: Have the reasons why the changes to the organizational systems and capabilities are required?
  10. 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:

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Sourcing and Logistics: Does Sourcing and Logistics appropriately measure and monitor risk?

Documents

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.

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

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:

  1. Does the practice systematically track and analyze outcomes related for accountability and quality improvement?

  2. Have all non-recommended alternatives been analyzed in sufficient detail?

  3. Political -is anyone trying to undermine this project?

  4. Have changes been properly/adequately analyzed for effect?

  5. Is there a documented and implemented monitoring plan?

  6. What is our formula for success in Sourcing and Logistics ?

  7. Does Sourcing and Logistics appropriately measure and monitor risk?

  8. Do we cover the five essential competencies-Communication, Collaboration,Innovation, Adaptability, and Leadership that improve an organization’s ability to leverage the new Sourcing and Logistics in a volatile global economy?

  9. Is the suppliers process defined and controlled?

  10. Among the Sourcing and Logistics product and service cost to be estimated, which is considered hardest to estimate?

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:

  1. Quality Management Plan: How does your organization ensure the quality, reliability, and user-friendliness of its hardware and software?
  2. Risk Audit: Has risk management been considered when planning an event?
  3. Activity Duration Estimates: How difficult will it be to complete specific activities on this Sourcing and Logistics project?
  4. WBS Dictionary: Do work packages reflect the actual way in which the work will be done and are they meaningful products or management-oriented subdivisions of a higher level element of work?
  5. Change Management Plan: What are the current methods of sharing information and do there need to be new ones developed?
  6. Procurement Management Plan: Are governance roles and responsibilities documented?
  7. Cost Baseline: Has the Sourcing and Logistics project (or Sourcing and Logistics project phase) been evaluated against each objective established in the product description and Integrated Sourcing and Logistics project Plan?
  8. Activity Duration Estimates: What are the main processes included in Sourcing and Logistics project quality management?
  9. WBS Dictionary: Are the contractors estimates of costs at completion reconcilable with cost data reported to us?
  10. Source Selection Criteria: What is the role of counsel in the procurement process?

 
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:

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Sourcing and Logistics: How do you use Sourcing and Logistics data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation?

Documents

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.

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

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:

  1. Does the team have regular meetings?

  2. When is/was the Sourcing and Logistics start date?

  3. If you had to rebuild your organization without any traditional competitive advantages (i.e., no killer a technology, promising research, innovative product/service delivery model, etc.), how would your people have to approach their work and collaborate together in order to create the necessary conditions for success?

  4. Is the solution cost-effective?

  5. How do we focus on what is right -not who is right?

  6. Has the improvement team collected the ‘voice of the customer’ (obtained feedback; qualitative and quantitative)?

  7. How do you use Sourcing and Logistics data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation?

  8. How frequently do you track Sourcing and Logistics measures?

  9. What potential environmental factors impact the Sourcing and Logistics effort?

  10. Were there any improvement opportunities identified from the process analysis?

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:

  1. Project Scope Statement: Have the Configuration Management functions been assigned?
  2. Change Request: Should a more thorough impact analysis be conducted?
  3. Activity Cost Estimates: How do you treat administrative costs in the activity inventory?
  4. Schedule Management Plan: Is the IMS used by all levels of management for Sourcing and Logistics project implementation and control?
  5. Quality Audit: What does an analysis of the organizations staff profile suggest in terms of its planning, and how is this being addressed?
  6. Source Selection Criteria: With the rapid changes in information technology, will media be readable in five or ten years?
  7. Probability and Impact Matrix: How will economic events and trends likely affect the Sourcing and Logistics project?
  8. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What is the expected monetary value of the Sourcing and Logistics project?
  9. Probability and Impact Matrix: What will be the likely political environment during the life of the Sourcing and Logistics project?
  10. Human Resource Management Plan: Are there dependencies with other initiatives or Sourcing and Logistics projects?

 
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:

 

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Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Sourcing and Logistics: What evidence is there and what is measured?

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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:

  1. What is the purpose of Sourcing and Logistics in relation to the mission?

  2. Is there a standardized process?

  3. What key inputs and outputs are being measured on an ongoing basis?

  4. Ask yourself: how would we do this work if we only had one staff member to do it?

  5. Do you have a vision statement?

  6. What are the top 3 things at the forefront of our Sourcing and Logistics agendas for the next 3 years?

  7. Do your employees have the opportunity to do what they do best everyday?

  8. What evidence is there and what is measured?

  9. Does our organization need more Sourcing and Logistics education?

  10. Think about the functions involved in your Sourcing and Logistics project. what processes flow from these functions?

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:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Have the key elements of a coherent Sourcing and Logistics project management strategy been established?
  2. Variance Analysis: Is the entire contract planned in time-phased control accounts to the extent practicable?
  3. Scope Management Plan: Are milestone deliverables effectively tracked and compared to Sourcing and Logistics project plan?
  4. Human Resource Management Plan: Do you have the reasons why the changes to the organizational systems and capabilities are required?
  5. Probability and Impact Matrix: Do you have a consistent repeatable process that is actually used?
  6. Executing Process Group: Do Sourcing and Logistics project managers understand the organizational context for their Sourcing and Logistics projects?
  7. Procurement Audit: Are there internal control systems in place to secure that laws and regulations are observed?
  8. Probability and Impact Assessment: What are the preparations required for facing difficulties?
  9. Project Portfolio management: How does the organization ensure that Sourcing and Logistics project and program benefits and risks are being managed to optimize the overall value creation from the portfolio?
  10. WBS Dictionary: Evaluate the performance of operating organizations?

 
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:

 

store.theartofservice.com/Sourcing-and-Logistics-toolkit-best-practice-templates-step-by-step-work-plans-and-maturity-diagnostics/

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.