Procurement Effectiveness Assessment Services: We will assess the effectiveness of existing procurement processes, align them with the organization’s processes, identify shortcomings and provide a plan to overcome them.

Procurement Policies: It takes an outsider to detect, if a certain policy is counter-intuitive.  We will use our lens to look through your policies, suggest course corrections and bullet-proof them.

Procurement Process Outsourcing: We endeavour to be your extension. Our trained personnel are adept at mimicking your Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS), and RACI matrices.  We take away your tactical burden; thus, freeing up your time to deal with important stuff.

Platform Integration Services: This is at the heart of any transformation project. Our technology experts will bring in their inherent expertise to integrate your several ERP/Legacy systems with our chosen procurement platform.

Supplier 360 Services: Suppliers are the keystone of any procurement organization. We have realized Suppliers are the weakest link of any successful implementation. Our Supplier Agents are trained to run enablement services without any fret. We will build Supplier profiles and enable them to conduct their business. This will also facilitate your Category Managers to instantaneously discover Suppliers.

Change Management and User Adoption: Our Change Management and Communications Plan help you achieve and sustain the benefits of the transformation effort. These will include a strategy and framework to effectively engage with your stakeholders and communicate changes across the transformation areas.

A Digital Procurement platform enables Buyers to collaborate effectively with Suppliers at different levels.  Our easy-to-use online adaptive sourcing methodologies provide real-time insights and analytics across your areas of influence.

Adaptive sourcing substantially reduces spend across Commodities.  It also helps monitor diverse supply market dynamics and optimize sourcing.  Deeply entrenched sourcing methods greatly amplify cost control measures driving innovation and continuous improvement across the rank-and-file of an Enterprise.  We will assist you to create sourcing strategies for a variety of goods and services like CAPEX, IT Infrastructure, Field and Building Management, Professional Services, Contingent Workforce Management, Direct Materials.

Any process outsourcing initiative must create value for the organization that plans to hand over its activities, processes, or the entire operations to a Third Party.  Templegate can handle your traditional order and invoice management processes OR the more strategic processes like supplier selection, contract negotiation or specification management.  If you choose us, we will help you achieve the following objectives.

• Visible shift from a Cost Centre to a Value Creator
• Online management of Suppliers
• Restructure Contracts to ensure appropriate service provisioning

Outsourcing strategic procurement activities can give you access to scale, expertise and capabilities that are not available in house.  These are areas where we intend to assist.

Volume Aggregation: It is our strong belief that bundling demands from multiple Clients provide a better vantage point to negotiate lower prices especially when demand is high and competition is low.  Our Agents will pay attention to specifications and delivery requirements while aggregating or moving to a low-cost provider.

Labour Cost Arbitrage:  We will jointly review your categories to decipher, if replacing low-paid internal positions is offsetting your projected savings. For example: We will suggest you to retain certain non-core categories since, this can provide you an opportunity to groom your talent for a succession plan.

Supplier Life cycle Management: It is quintessential to periodically review your supplier relationships and outsourcing contracts with them. Templegate asks these questions and assists you to find answers. Are your contracts delivering against the intended demand and specifications?  Are you receiving periodic assessment of your Supplier’s experience, expertise, scale and existing customer relationships? Does the Supplier’s geographic reach and culture fit into your needs and value proposition?

The success of any implementation is that its outcomes are repeatable, and sustainable with an adaptability to change. This is true in any business context especially when a lot of time, effort and your precious dollars are spent. 50% of the transformation battle is won when change is institutionalized. During recalibration, we engage in open and fair conversations with stakeholders, listen to their point of view and make course corrections. We will monitor your process efficiency, governance, and return-on-investment. We will make you and your team bigger, smarter, more creative, more moral, and just better. Templegate offers:

Spend Optimization: The results of the augmented analytic models will be periodically rolled-in to optimize spends across your various spend categories.

Best Value Buying: We will re-evaluate our Adaptive sourcing models to check if these are yielding repeatable benefits, freeing-up the time of your Sourcing Managers to co-create innovative products and services with your preferred Suppliers.

Operational Efficiency: We will measure, if the suggested procurement goals and metrics are in perfect harmony with your team’s objectives, processes, and technologies. We will suggest corrective actions to enhance its effectiveness.

Workforce Excellence: We will empower your team with the right knowledge and skills on the tools you have chosen to transform it. These interventions will help both your internal and external worlds to view them as trusted partners on anything related to procurement.

Compliance and Accountability: The primary objective of any transformation initiative must be to shift the team’s attention from the numerous mundane tasks that continuously pin them down. Our focus is on aspects that force exceptions. Our exception framework will catch non-adherence to compliance with your statutes, administrative codes, executive orders, and policies.