Procurement GPS

About

Overview

Brought to market by the Procurement Intelligence Unit (PIU), Procurement GPS has been developed, like the PIU, to help our members maximise the value that procurement delivers to the business.

GPS does this by providing procurement strategy makers with a web-enabled navigation tool, or global positioning system, for building, testing and guiding procurement development and improvement programmes.

GPS acts as both a support tool and an accelerant for a CPO and his/her team to deliver a defensible plan or guide for what to do, how to do it and how to engage people and stakeholders throughout the change process.

It provides a comprehensive framework and methodology that cascades business priorities into procurement strategies and operational improvement plans. The tool set was developed from 30 years of academic research and 10 years of operational testing and deployment.

Essentially, through its 18 modules, GPS helps CPOs and their strategy teams to answer three key questions:

• Where are we now? 

• Where are we going? 

• How are we going to get there?

Process

Acting as a roadmap, GPS identifies and compares Procurement's current status to where it needs to be in order to develop and optimally support the delivery of key business priorities. This includes outlining each of the process steps, process interdependencies and training requirements in making the journey.  

In summary, members simply log in to create a self-assessment of procurement capability across 18 different modules, totalling 540 data points.  From here, the relevant business priorities are selected from a variety of alternatives filtering down from shareholder value.  Finally, objectives are identified and set across the modules in order to build a feasible development plan, taking into account interdependencies and improvement requirements in related areas. 

Case Studies

The GPS Case Study bank continually develops, providing detailed examples of some of the ways in which procurement organisations from around the world developed their capabilities, to further enhance procurement's role, relationships and contribution.

Video Interviews

Click on the links below to listen to Neil Deverill (former CPO, Anglo American and Royal Philips) talk about Procurement GPS from his perspective.

- What is it?

- Why GPS?

- Who is it for?

- How does GPS link with the wider business?

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