Cost pressures in is most industries are well publicised. To achieve cost reduction targets, procurement departments are taking over the buying process, with a laser focus on price over value. These changes have caught many companies unprepared, meaning lost business, lost revenue and lost profits.
This seminar will provide an opportunity to find out what some of the world’s leading companies are doing to respond to these changes.
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Procurement: Challenging Sales Propositions from Value to Price.
1. Procurement: Challenging
Sales Propositions from
Value to Price
This webinar will give you insights
and a tool to help you manage the
customers that generate most of
your revenue or most of your profit.
What leading companies are doing to respond
effectively
2. Which is the best value?
If I offered to hire you for one month (30 days
straight!) and offered to pay you:
$ 500,000 in the hand right now
or
1 cent on the first day, but double
your wages each day,
Which would you accept?
3. Which is the
best value?
Total payout
$500,000 vs.
$5,368,709.12
4. Suppliers need to be able to
articulate which option is
really the best value.
Collaborating with suppliers like Jones Lang LaSalle.
Reduced shared services costs as % of sales by 33%.
Delivering 75% more scope than 7 years ago.
36,000 documented & customer validated case studies.
Deep & broad engagement with customers.
Extensive customer operational data & insights.
Used UPS expertise in telecommunications to write
specification saving US $600,000 in
telecommunications consultancy costs.
5. Strategic forces in business
Products & Services
Becoming harder to differentiate
Product innovation slowing
Competition
Intensifying
Price focused
Big getting bigger
Niche & generics
Pricing Pressures
Long-term strategies to reduce costs
Increasingly knowledgeable buyers
The rise of procurement
Customers
Revenue from a small
number of large customers
Different decision makers
Demand for
information & insights
Your
company
6. The rise of Procurement
2000
Less than 20% of
spend managed by
procurement
Today
More than 50% of
spend managed by
procurement
78% of CPOs
report to C-Level
Avg ROI 280%
Best in class 700%
Direct
Indirect
Services
11. “We would never buy on
price alone. Price will
never make up more than
50% of our criteria for a
buying decision”
Head of Procurement
$70b retailer
“We need help from
suppliers to articulate
value delivered (to
Treasury, who only want
savings)”
Government Procurement
Executive
12. Avoid getting trapped
Account’s Business Contacts
Your Internal Resources
Procurement Contact
Procurement want to control the relationship: One-to-Many
13. Avoid getting trapped
Account’s Business Contacts
Your Internal Resources
Broad/deep relationships so you can communicate value: Many-to-Many
15. Price vs. Total Cost –
Price $10.00
It’s about measuring
all the factors…
$30.25 VALUE
Price $15.00
Increased Lubrication
Increased Energy
Increased Inventory
Longer Installation
Less Uptime
Lower Reliability
TCO
Less Lubrication
Less Energy
Less Inventory
Faster Installation
Longer Uptime
Higher Reliability
TCO
$87.25
$57.00
$5.00 Investment Creates $30.25 in Increased Customer Value
16. How do your customers
define Value?
• Not in terms of product and service
features…
• but in terms of delivering Results
Improved
Customer Outcomes
Improved Operational
Productivity
Improved Asset
Productivity Reduced Risk
17. “We (Procurement) never buy value. That’s
not our role. We are there to drive costs
down.”
“That doesn’t mean we (the Company)
would never buy on value.
Procurement would never stand in the
way of a line executive who felt they
had identified the business solution
they needed.”
18. 3 lessons from the best
1. Know how procurement are
measured
2. Avoid getting trapped
20. “Opportunity is missed by most
people because it is in overalls
and looks like hard work”
Thomas Edison
21. “There is no silver bullet.
Organisations must do many things
well to respond effectively to the
rising influence of procurement.”
Mark Shonka & Dan Kosch
Selling Value in the era of Procurement
As the trade becomes increasingly global your products and services are becoming more commoditised.
There is more competition than ever to retain them.
It is not just about retaining them, but retaining them profitably.
The skills, knowledge and insights from your organisation are your only real source of unique value.