Consulting

Challenges

Procurement departments are undergoing significant transformations through the introduction of new business processes and technologies that enable new levels of performance.

In order to successfully indentify and capture these opportunities companies must address key issues such as: which best practices to apply to existing practices and categories, how to extract the most value from available technology, which is the best way to organize and align resources, how to organize information and measure performance, how to stimulate continuous improvements, among others.

Approach and Benefits

Based on its experience and knowledge of best practices in a number of industries, Webb supports companies in the identification of opportunities and the prioritization of initiatives, in order to maximize results in the short, medium and long term.

After thorough analysis, Webb provides focused and pragmatic recommendations to improve processes, technologies or organizational structures, including the design and implementation of key performance indicators for both  integrated projects or for supporting specific topics, such as:

Type Results
Spend Analysis
  • Spend profile (by category, area of business and supplier);
  • Recommending the best procurement strategy for each individual category, including implementation waves.
Value Assessment
  • Mapping opportunities in relation to cost of acquisition, process optimization, organization and technology;
  • Identification and prioritization of initiatives;
  • Elaboration of business case and implementation.
Processes Review
  • Detailed analysis of the current situation (as is);
  • Gap versus best practices analysis;
  • Elaboration of proposed flows and performance indicators (to be).
Organizational Restructuring
  • Understanding of the organizational structure and the governance model;
  • Recommendations including aspects such as centralization, outsourcing, functional versus matrix organizational structure;
  • Evaluation of the knowledge management model and performance.
Market Study
  • Becoming familiar with market dynamics, including:
  • Key players;
  • Value Chain; and
  • Benchmarking of market prices.