The solution

Maine Pointe’s industry and practice specialists worked alongside personnel at all levels within the organization to implement our strategic sourcing process. Specifically, we:

• Interviewed and conditioned all existing strategic suppliers
• Revised and improved product specifications across all categories to ensure consistent or improved quality
• Developed and implemented a formal strategic sourcing approach
• Broke down costs for all key sub-commodity groups, enabling continuous improvement and total cost transparency
• Introduced global sourcing and price benchmarking within the merchandizing subcategories
• Sourced new suppliers across all categories, to participate in all RFP/I process
• Developed new procurement metrics (KPIs) and review process 

The cornerstone of the engagement was training and coaching. We deployed Maine Pointe’s leader and organization improvement (LOI) specialists to establish and train cross-functional commodity teams and ensured that all procurement staff had the required skills to sustainably apply the strategic sourcing process.