With decades of experience, often behind the scenes, helping the world’s greatest brands identify, optimize, and execute on sourcing transformation projects, McKinsey & Co are perhaps the world’s experts on sourcing optimization, dynamic negotiation, and unlocking the value of supplier relationships. Join Teresa Liptak, Expert Operational and Digital Procurement, from the McKinsey Procurement Practice and Chetan Ghatge, Associate Principle at McKinsey.
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The Untapped Power of Dynamic Negotiation: See the World from McKinsey’s Perspective
1. The Untapped Power of
Dynamic Negotiations
See the world from McKinsey’s
perspective
TERESA LIPTAK
Expert at McKinsey & Company
2. The Ultimatum Game…
The game is a simple "take it or leave it" exercise played in pairs
Player A is "given" $100 (Player B is aware of how much A has)
Player A makes one offer how to split the money with player B
Player B can only accept/refuse the offer
There is ONLY 1 offer / response
For a “deal” to happen – Player B has to accept the offer,
otherwise both players get nothing
2SOURCE: “The Ultimate Game” teaching notes JK Murnighan (JL Kellogg GSM, NWU)
3. How Does the Game End?
Only if an agreement is reached
between you, you get to “keep” the
money and split it in the agreed
manner
If agreement is not reached, then you
have to return the money to the
facilitator
SOURCE: “The Ultimate Game” teaching notes JK Murnighan (JL Kellogg GSM, NWU)
4. Debrief From the Game
Strategies Behavior
SOURCE: McKinsey & Company Negotiations Institure
5. SOURCE: McKinsey & Company Negotiations Institute
Adapting a negotiation to a
dynamically changing
environment in which
either new opportunities
appear or levers change
7. SOURCE: McKinsey & Company Negotiations Institure
Learnings From the Game
Pairs
3600
Fake
money
57-59%
Real
money
59-63%
8. Raw Materials Machines Business Models
SOURCE: Frank, M; Roehrig P.’ Print, Ben (2017) What To Do When Machines Do Everything
1800s
Coal
1900s
Oil, Steel, Electricity
2000s
Data
10. How Much Time Do You Spend
on Average Preparing For a Negotiation?
Live poll resultNoneA
<1 dayB
<1 weekC
No more than 2 weeksD
>2 weeksE
0A B C D E
ScoutSpark.participoll.com
11. What is The Most Advanced Technology
You Are Using For Procurement Today?
Live poll resultSourcing toolsA
RobotsB
Spend analytics w/
artificial intelligence
C
eCatalogsD
All of the aboveE
0A B C D E
ScoutSpark.participoll.com
12. Historical spend data Total Cost of Ownership model
Linear performance pricing Should-cost model
What Do I Mean By Fact Base?
Industry standard levers and benchmarks
Post-bid analytics
13. Think of Your Fact Base Like a Movie
Historical
spend data
Benchmarks and
industry knowledge Representative market
basket
RFP Round 1
Post-bid
analytics
RFP Rounds 2+
Supplier
feedback
Award
scenarios
Negotiations
ContractCategory specific
levers
Source-to-Contract Value Chain
14. Historical Data, Industry Standard Levers and Benchmarks
Demand
6
7
8
9
Align variance of rates between similar roles
Identify opportunities to allocate resources on high rate locations
to cheaper areas (location optimization)
Identify savings that can be realized by consolidating similar roles
with suppliers to leverage volume discounts
Identify savings if the overtime hours are shifted to standard time
hours by hiring more temps
1
2
3
Commercial
4
5
Conduct comparison against market rates
Align transactional pay rates to benchmark pay rates
Align transactional mark-ups to benchmark mark-ups
Develop harmonization of rates (rate arbitrage)
Investigate the difference in cost if high-spend contractors are
made employees
Levers
Process
10 Identify contractors by tenures who pose the
risk of co-employment
11 Align overtime hours to acceptable user
defined limits to realize savings
12 Rationalize and align contractual mark-ups,
rates and service levels to identify gaps and
capture value
15. Post-Bid Analytics
Quickly pull up side-by-side
comparison of supplier bids
Automatically review bid coverage
and pre-set scenarios to get a sense of
the best pricing options
Develop should cost modeling and
compare prices to current or set
pricing options
Quickly provide custom feedback
reports to suppliers on their
competitiveness
16. LEAST MOST
Most Desirable Outcome (MDO)
• Your absolute best possible agreement
for us and stands as a benchmark
Least Acceptable Agreement (LAA)
• Your walk away point, consisting of terms
that we must achieve for the category.
Settling for anything else is not
acceptable
These two extremes will define the opening position and the
point at which further concessions cannot be made
Should-Cost Models and Other Data to Define Strategy
19. Just try it
Quick prototypes
Failing quick and often
Measure results
Market results
Untap the power of
dynamic negotiations
Develop your vision
Everything you do is
data first
Assess your digital
maturity
Technology
Data and analytics
Organizational culture
Capabilities
20. What We Learned Today
20
A dynamic negotiation means being able to adapt to
a dynamically changing environment
Having a data first mindset and technology enables
dynamic negotiation capabilities
The untapped power of dynamic negotiations is
yours for the taking; use technology to get you there
Companies like Scout and others in the industry are
leading the wave into digital transformation
21. 21
Why Dynamic Negotiation is Transformative
Date: Tomorrow
Time: 3PM
Location: Joe Henderson Lab (JHL)
Objective: Let’s talk Best Practice with regards to working with
suppliers during the negotiation process. Join Jason Waller of
McKinsey, and Sandra Tedt of Scout as they share lesson learned on
sourcing optimization, dynamic negotiation, and how to unlock the
value of supplier relationships. We encourage you to bring your tips
and questions to this insightful discussion.
Want to Learn More?
Let’s start with a game (EXPLAIN SLIDE)
We are going to play this in our heads
How does the game end? (EXPLAIN SLIDE)
If you were player A, what offer would you make?
If you were player B, what offer would you accept?
Strategy
A usually adopts either a “50-50” or “less than half” strategy
B rarely rejects 50-50 offers, deal is as equal and fair Often rejects offers of “less than half”
Behaviors
The do not make sense based on a rational economic point of view of the world.
In this game, what didn’t player A and B have?
Data
Fact base
Time to prepare
I’ll come back to the game in a bit
Now you are probably sitting here saying, what is a dynamic negotiation? (EXPLAIN SLIDE)
Second, what do I mean by the untapped power of dynamic negotiations?
Negotiations are a mix of art and science.
Today = Science = what is needed to have a dynamic negotiation; data, a robust fact base, and technology to get you there
People are not tapping into the power of dynamic negotiations today because they do not have the data, fact base or technology needed to drive them
ART: softer side of negotiations (including the decisions we take based on the facts)
Let’s go back to our game for a second and look at some metrics. (EXPLAIN SLIDE)
Imagine walking into a negotiation knowing you only have ~60% chance of making a deal
Let alone whether or not that deal is favorable to you.
You must be well prepared for a negotiation. Understand that…
Only a very small number of people actually act in an economically rational manner
People have very different views on what win/win means
Only a very small number of people actually have a fact base and prepare appropriately for negotiations
This is a quick game, but it isn’t that far from reality for some people. It was an extreme example of what not to do
Now that we know what a dynamic negotiation is and why people aren’t tapping into them
Take a look at history (EXPLAIN THE SLIDE)
1800s = coal, steam engine, and rail
1900s = oil/steel/electricity, the automobile, and mass assembly or the production line
2000s = data, systems of intelligence that combine hardware/AI/software/data to create value, monetization of services and solutions based on systems of intelligence is the business model
We are in the 4th industrial revolution and data is our raw material.
Now many of you may be very underwhelmed at this point. You are probably thinking ‘Tell me something I don’t know’. To be honest, I may not (laugh). I will however share with you a perspective on how to use data and technoloty to get ahead
I am now going to ask about you (EXPLAIN THE SLIDE)
Reflection:
Getting good at negotiations takes practice
How many negotiations do you believe your counterpart on the supplier side is conducting per year? 10x what you are at least
(EXPLAIN THE SLIDE)
Reflection:
How many ‘accounts’ do you think your counterpart manages? 10% of you do. Can you imagine the data and fact base they have on you?
As ‘buyers’ or procurement leaders, why are we not setting ourselves up for success?
(EXPLAIN THE SLIDE)
Reflection:
These results are not shocking.
Two big issues that CPOs face with technology is adoption and achieving the ROI they were told they would achieve from having a fully integrated system
Until many crack these problems, they are hesitant to advance technology
Going back to data and the fact base that you can create with it
What do I mean?
Let’s look at some examples (EXPLAIN SLIDE)
When and how do I build this fact base?
Think about your fact base over the lifecycle of a category, product, or service “like a movie”
CLICK FIRST BUTTON: Formal negotiations take place near the end, but the data and the fact base is developed through out
You should be adapting your negotiation to a dynamically changing environment as new opportunities appear or levers change
Every step and interaction is a piece of the negotiation
Example: USE HISTORICAL DATA AND INDUSTRY LEVERS BENCHAMRKS
(EXPLAIN SLIDE)
Proprietary solution that ingests millions of rows of historical transaction data.
Algorithms run in the background to produce a fact base or set of opportunities to go after.
This is done in a matter of hours, not a matter of weeks.
With technology, I can introduce new data and adapt our negotiation at a touch of a button
Example of a post-bid analytics
Scout is developing additional analytics features that will help you develop a fact base on your bid data very quickly
You can developing a robust fact base to drive supplier feedback and improve negotiations
Example of using should-cost models to define LAA and MDO (EXPLAIN SLIDE)
LAA Examples: Maximum cost, Delivery terms that offer market advantage, Product meeting all specs, Consistent service, Fixed price for as long as necessary
MDO Examples: Lowest price in the market, Shortest possible delivery time, Performance above specification, Superior service, Long-term guaranteed prices
Once you have your LAA, you can define your negotiating window based on the fact base
EXPLAIN SLIDE
Our negotiation window is defined by the LAA of both parties
Pre-video: To drive a dynamic negotiation, you need technology. Look at examples
Post-video:
Scout or other technology solutions enable real-time insights
Imagine - alter existing resources and go through whatif scenarios at a touch of a button.
Imagine - provide feedback to suppliers or stakeholder instantaneously based on logic
Imagine - robot trigger a new analysis based on a change in one suppliers bid
Dynamic negotiation means adapting to a dynamically changing environment in which either new opportunities can appear or the availability of levers can change, I need to be able to assess tens of thousands if not millions of rows of data in a matter of minutes in order to be effective
Doing so enables me to drive deeper, faster, higher impact negotiations with the suppliers. My impact is hard dollar savings, efficiency gains, stakeholder happiness
You are probably thinking, what do I do first? (EXPLAIN THE SLIDE)
FIRST HORIZON: Start by assessing your digital maturity in terms
SECOND, develop your vision
THIRD, just try it
Here is what we learned today.
I am really excited to be here today in the Bay Area
There is a lot of innovation with a lot of data focus
I am around this afternoon if you would like to go deeper.
We have a round table discussion @ 3:00PM tomorrow in Joe Henderson Lab (JHL).
We will go deeper into the powers of dynamic negotiations and our perspective on how to set yourself and your organization up for success.