Procurement Outsourcing

Insightful Analysis to Drive Your Procurement Outsourcing Strategy. As part of its market-leading BPO research portfolio, NelsonHall has developed the Procurement Outsourcing Program as a dedicated service for organizations evaluating, or actively engaged in, the outsourcing of all or part of their procurement function.

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  • Procurement Outsourcing

    July 2010 | Market Analysis by Rachael Stormonth

    NelsonHall's "Procurement Outsourcing" market analysis consists of 122 pages.

    The report identifies buy-side perceptions within procurement organizations concerning the issues they face, their current priorities, and their attitudes towards procurement business process outsourcing (BPO).

    In particular the survey uses buy-side interviewing to identify:

    • The principal sourcing and procurement issues procurement organizations are facing in 2010
    • The major initiatives being planned by organizations to address these issues
    • The levels of success they have achieved in recent initiatives
    • Their attitudes to outsourcing and propensity to outsource, by process area and by spend category
    • Preferred procurement service delivery approaches
    • Cost reduction thresholds and benefits sought from outsourcing
    • Attitudes towards BPO service provision, and vendor selection criteria.

Latest research in program

  • Wipro - Procurement BPO

    September 2010 | vendor analysis by Rachael Stormonth

    Wipro positions on being able to offer support to clients in their sourcing as well as their procurement operations, although at the moment, most activity remains centered on transactional procurement activities, particularly in PR to PO processing.

  • Procurement Outsourcing

    July 2010 | market analysis by Rachael Stormonth

    NelsonHall's "Procurement Outsourcing" market analysis consists of 122 pages.

    The report identifies buy-side perceptions within procurement organizations concerning the issues they face, their current priorities, and their attitudes towards procurement business process outsourcing (BPO).

    In particular the survey uses buy-side interviewing to identify:

    • The principal sourcing and procurement issues procurement organizations are facing in 2010
    • The major initiatives being planned by organizations to address these issues
    • The levels of success they have achieved in recent initiatives
    • Their attitudes to outsourcing and propensity to outsource, by process area and by spend category
    • Preferred procurement service delivery approaches
    • Cost reduction thresholds and benefits sought from outsourcing
    • Attitudes towards BPO service provision, and vendor selection criteria.

  • Platform BPO - Definition

    April 2010 | market analysis by Katharina Grimme

    Contains NelsonHall's definition for platform BPO

Featured vendor assessment

  • Wipro - Procurement BPO

    September 2010 | vendor analysis by Rachael Stormonth

    Wipro positions on being able to offer support to clients in their sourcing as well as their procurement operations, although at the moment, most activity remains centered on transactional procurement activities, particularly in PR to PO processing.

Featured procurement developments

Maintain an awareness of the impact of key developments in procurement outsourcing through enhanced analysis of high impact events such as contract announcements, new service launches and key vendor financial announcements.

Rachael leads our Procurement Outsourcing program providing expert opinion and insight relating to procurement services. To obtain Rachael's advice:

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Track the pattern of procurement outsourcing service adoption in your industry by monitoring procurement outsourcing contract awards by your peers. Identify who are the successful vendors in your industry now. Updated monthly - last update August 1, 2010.

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