e-Sourcing Roll-out Success TipsAt

e-Sourcing Roll-out Success Tips
At reSource, Iasta's annual user conference, last week, both Fluor and First Group, two of Iasta's larger customers, gave presentations on successful rollout tactics and lessons from complex implementations that had some good tips on getting the most from your e-Sourcing solutions. Considering that every additional day required for solution roll-out, and subsequent mastery, is another day where you're losing process efficiency AND leaving money on the table, in these challenging times, every tip helps.

Some of the tips were what you'd expect, and included:

executive sponsorship
it's almost always easier to get buy in when support comes from the top down
retention of experts
there's often no faster way to kick-start your project than to bring in appropriately qualified experts
don't overlook "change management" and the importance of a "change culture"
e-Sourcing is all about change for the better, and it requires buy-in across the board to be truly successful
form true cross-functional teams
every impacted department, including legal, marketing, and R&D, should have a seat on the cross-functional purchasing team
get financial support up-front
you not only need the right tools up front, but you need the right expertise (in the form of consultant subject matter experts) up front as well - and this requires seed money (upon which you'll see a great return when the project is executed right)
a standard sourcing process
that is executed across projects
But some of the tips were a little less obvious, such as:

use the tool, not e-mail
most of today's sourcing platforms have companion supplier portals and allow for all communication with the supplier to take place through the platform - using e-mail fails to centralize knowledge and, more importantly, can allow the process to be side-stepped, which could not only allow for a loss of efficiency and savings, but could violate the ethics of e-Sourcing
don't overlook mid-management
even if you obtain buy-in from senior management and the team, if mid-management doesn't buy in, there could be daily struggles
make greater use of all available features sooner rather than later
most platforms these days come with basic spend analysis, decision optimization, and / or contract management - all of which deliver savings above and beyond what you can obtain with e-RFx and e-Auctions, which is not only where most companies start their e-Sourcing journey, but in too many cases, where they prematurely stop it as well
monthly meetings
make sure that the cross-functional project team meets (at least once) every month - not just during project kick-off and project completion
build the standard agreements up-front
and make sure each is reviewed by legal before being sent to potential suppliers as part of the RFx
roll your own buyer's guide
have one of your senior team members combine the relevant vendor product documentation, process guides, training materials, and free resources (such as the wiki-papers on the e-Sourcing Wiki) into a single, printed, easy-to-follow buyer's guide for each of your buyers that they can use as both a quick-start guide AND an easy reference

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e-sourcing Roll-out Arrakastaren aholkuak
Baliabideen, Iasta urteko Erabiltzaile hitzaldi, joan den astean, bi Fluor eta lehen taldea, Iasta bezeroek handiago bi egun, arrakastatsua abian jarriz on batzuk onak aholkuak izan duten ezarpenari konplexua taktikak eta ikasgai aurkezpenak eman Zure e-sourcing irtenbide gehien. Hori irtenbide roll-out, eta ondorengo maisutasuna beharrezkoak egun gehigarri bakoitzeko, non prozesu eraginkortasuna galtzen ari zaren, eta mahai gainean dirua utziz, erronka garai hauetan beste egun bat dela aintzat hartuta, punta guztietan laguntzen. aholku batzuk duzuna ziren ' Espero D, eta, besteak beste: exekutiboa babesari ia beti errazagoa da erosi lortu denean laguntza goitik behera dator atxikipen adituen ez da, askotan ez bide azkarrago zure proiektua jaurtitzeko hasteko ere ekartzea baino, behar bezala trebatutako adituak ez ahaztu "aldaketa kudeaketa "eta garrantzia" aldaketaren kultura " e-sourcing guztiak hobeto aldaketa ingurukoa da, eta erosi-en taula zehar benetan arrakasta izan dezan eskatzen du inprimaki egia-funtzio taldeek departamenduan eragin behin, lege, marketing barne, eta I + G, mugaz funtzionala erosketa taldeak eserlekurik bat izan behar dute lortu finantza-laguntza-aurrean duzun bakarra behar tresna egokiak sortu aurrean, baina eskuineko espezializazioa behar duzu (aholkularia gai adituen moduan) aurrean sortu baita - eta honen hazia dirua eskatzen (horien gainean, itzulera handi bat ikusiko duzu proiektua abian dagoenean eskuineko) sourcing prozesu estandar bat hori proiektuen zehar fusilatu Baina aholku batzuk apur bat gutxiago bistako izan ziren, hala nola: tresna erabiltzeko, Ez e-mail gaurko sourcing plataformen gehienak laguna hornitzaile atari dute eta hornitzaile komunikazio guztiak ospatuko den plataformaren bidez ahalbidetzen - e-mail erabiliz huts egiten jakintza zentralizatu eta, are garrantzitsuagoa dena, prozesua albo-zapaldu izan ahal daiteke , eta ezin bakarrik eraginkortasun eta aurrezpen galera bat onartzeko, baina e-sourcing etika urratzen zitekeen ez ahaztu-kudeaketa Mid erosi-senior kudeaketa eta taldeak lortzen baduzu ere, erdialdean kudeaketa doesn ' t erosteko, ez dago eguneroko borrokak izan daiteke beranduago lehenago baino eskuragarri ezaugarri guztiak erabilera handiagoa egiteko plataforma egun hauetan oinarrizko pasatzeko azterketa, erabakia optimizatu etorri, eta / edo kontratu kudeaketa - guztiek, eta batez ere zer egin dezakezu haratago emateko aurrezki e-RFx eta e-Auctions, eta hori ez da bakarrik non enpresa gehienak beren e-sourcing bidaia hasteko lortzeko, baina kasu gehiegi, non behar baino lehenago gelditu dira bertan, baita hilean behin bilerak ziurtatu du proiektu-funtzio talde horretan biltzen da ( gutxienez behin) hilero - ez bakarrik proiektu sakea eta proiektua burutzean akordioak estandarra gora-aurrean eraikitzeko eta ziurtatu bakoitza legezko duen hornitzailearen potentzial bidaltzen ari RFx baitan aurretik roll zeure erosleak gida dute bat zure senior taldeko kideek konbinatu saltzaileari Produktu dagokion dokumentazioa, prozesua gidak, prestakuntza-materialak, eta baliabide librea da, inprimatuta, erraz-jarraitu erosleak single gida bakoitzeko sartu (esaterako, wiki-paperak e-sourcing tresnak gisa) Zure erosle biek azkar-hasierako gida eta erreferentzia erraza gisa erabili ahal izango dela