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A MULTI-TIERED APPROACH TO TRANSFORMING PROCUREMENT
maturity, so they are best positioned to
develop a bespoke and optimised digital
transformation strategy.
THE ECOSYSTEM MATURITY PUZZLE
Matthew Edgar, senior manager client
engagement at WNS Denali, says ecosystem
maturity is a critical piece of the jigsaw.
“The right digital ecosystem drives
and develops the maturity of any type of
procurement organisation. You can evaluate
where you are in the maturity curve by
analysing the aspects of your digital
ecosystem,” he says.
The time to maturity is directly impacted
by the use, adoption and implementation of
digital tools, Edgar says. To obtain the data
needed to benchmark its position on the
maturity curve and develop a procurement
roadmap, the organisation must be able to
evaluate its supply base and understand
The pivotal role that procurement ecosystem
maturity plays in an effective digital strategy
cannot be underestimated, says Christopher
Eyerman, head of procurement innovation at
WNS Denali, a global consultancy that helps
clients cocreate, implement and execute
next-generation customised operating
models to improve the strategic impact of
procurement for their businesses.
“Whenweconsiderdigitaltransformation,
it is essential to start with a holistic view
of the client’s procurement ecosystem.
Digital success is dependent on the entire
procurement ecosystem, and how we
approach our digitalisation journey starts
with a candid assessment of their overall
procurement maturity,” he says.
Eyerman says WNS Denali works with its
clients to map the digital aspects of their
existing and developing infrastructures
in the context of overall procurement
Tackling maturity head on
CPOs are realising they must make an honest assessment of the levels of maturity
within their procurement ecosystem if they are to deliver effective digitalisation
The right digital
ecosystem drives
and develops the
maturity of any type
of procurement
organisation.
You can evaluate
where you are in
the maturity curve
by analysing the
aspects of your
digital ecosystem
Matthew Edgar,
WNS Denali Æ
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A MULTI-TIERED APPROACH TO TRANSFORMING PROCUREMENT
Edgar cautions that there are widespread
misconceptions – among organisations
of all sizes – centring on their perceived
procurement and digital maturity.
He says one client, a Fortune 500
consumer-packaged goods organisation,
appeared very advanced, as measured on the
procurement maturity curve, with robust
systems and desktop procedures to manage
global procure-to-pay processes. However,
there were some real issues when it came to
systems and system integration.
“I see a lot of companies, even with
the digitisation of all the source-to-
pay platforms, that have a real problem
submitting documentation offline. They
are still pushing a lot of paper via Outlook
and not using technology appropriately.
Some are still tracking their savings
on spreadsheets.”
This widespread gulf between perceived
and actual digital maturity is a serious
roadblock that affects the operational
effectiveness of many procurement
organisations. Eyerman says that low-
maturity clients must adopt a step-by-step
approach to capability development to
create a robust and effective ecosystem.
“Understanding these building blocks is a
key area that we see organisations struggle
with when they are working on digital
transformation. There is a temptation
to jump into technology, with many
organisations chasing the latest shiny
and cool tools. But digital itself is not an
objective. Digital should support, enable
and, ideally, accelerate how you achieve
your business objectives in procurement,”
says Eyerman. n
what real-time information is available to
help make critical business decisions.
However, the process of gauging the
procurement maturity of enterprise digital
and procurement ecosystems in the real
world can be problematic, says Kerri
Beatty, head of academy and enablement at
WNS Denali.
“You do not have to be perfect, as it is
an art not a science. A common mistake
organisations make is overestimating
their maturity and underestimating the
importance of closing fundamental gaps
before trying to leap forward with the latest
tools. They assume everything is good since
they invested time and money but, in many
cases, they did not bring the right people
together or invest enough in the ‘boring’
things to bridge between the vision and
some of the foundational building blocks,”
she says.
KEY MATURITY QUESTIONS
There are many parameters that need to be
considered in this context. Eyerman says it
is important to look at where enterprises sit
on the procurement maturity scale and the
technologies they have implemented.
Questions that need to be addressed
include:
n
What is the state of their processes?
n
Where are they in terms of the data?
n
Is that data available?
n
Is the data accessible?
n
What is the quality of the data?
n
What is the culture of that organisation?
n
Are they ready to drive for more
technology,oraretheymoreconservative?
n
Are they risk-taking?
CREATING A PLATFORM FOR DIGITAL PROCUREMENT STRATEGIC SUCCESS
For procurement to transform itself into a data-driven
function and emerge as a strategic leader within the
business, it must have strong foundations. These
foundations, which extend beyond technology alone,
differentiate the teams that are set up to take advantage
of the data-driven opportunity and those that are not.
Procurement Leaders’ research has identified several
practices common among the top performers, with these
separated over the following five critical capability layers:
n Vision: The objectives of procurement’s data strategy.
n Strategy: The action plan that the function develops to
address its data improvement and analytics objectives.
n
Skills: Developing expertise around data stewardship,
analytics and digital project management.
n
Data management and operations: The processes and
practices used to collect, store and use data effectively.
n
Digital solution architecture: The technological
underpinning of the procurement ecosystem.
Source: Data-driven decision-making: Building procurement’s
future foundations, Procurement Leaders, 2021.
A common mistake
organisations make
is overestimating
their maturity and
underestimating
the importance of
closing fundamental
gaps before trying
to leap forward with
the latest tools
Kerri Beatty,
WNS Denali
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A MULTI-TIERED APPROACH TO TRANSFORMING PROCUREMENT
“Adoption might be the biggest issue as it
relates to realising the value from, frankly,
really expensive digital platforms. I do not
think a lot of organisations do a great job of
enforcing the adoption and then executing it
in a way that makes it easy and digestible,”
says Edgar.
“It is important for category managers
and for the wider procurement function to
promote themselves as agents of change.
Organisations pay millions for technology
platforms. We need to adopt them and
procurement needs to take the lead and show
the organisation how it should be done.”
A MORE STRATEGIC APPROACH
Edgar adds that category managers must
overcome growing operational complexity.
To address this issue, savvy organisations
are deploying digital tools to enhance the
role, while category managers think and
operate more effectively and strategically in
the context of overall commercial objectives.
“Procurement should be adding more value
to the business – not just dollars and cents on
the savings targets – but strategic operational
enhancements. Procurement functions, and
category managers armed with the right
digital tools and systems, have the potential
to demonstrate they are good business
partners and can add value when it comes to
understanding the complexities of the supply
market for the wider business,” he says.
Christopher Eyerman, head of
procurement innovation at WNS Denali,
reiterates the central importance of
procurement chiefs understanding their
position on the procurement and digital
maturity scale to help their teams maximise
their commercial value to the organisation.
“Procurement organisations are all in
different stages of overall maturity. We look
at an organisation and evaluate where it lies
on the maturity spectrum. This helps us to
understand how procurement is working to
bring this value to the organisation and to
see where it is struggling,” he says. n
Procurement’s transformation towards a
new, block-by-block, data-driven strategic
value proposition can only happen in stages,
with research pointing to a spectrum of
digital maturity across organisations.
Procurement Leaders’ report, Data-driven
decision-making: Building procurement’s
future foundations, found: “Teams can only
establish data-driven decision-making
through a capability improvement strategy
that accounts for people, processes and
technology. Leaders who focus exclusively
on tools and systems – without accounting
for the skills and strategy necessary to
ensure the success of such investments –
will fail to deliver the desired impact.”
The study further suggests that, although
thenumberofhigh-performingprocurement
functions within global enterprises is
growing rapidly, many organisations are
still struggling to execute plans to improve
capabilities across multiple commercial and
operational parameters.
One roadblock to implementing effective
procurement digitalisation programmes,
according to Matthew Edgar, senior manager
client engagement at WNS Denali, centres
on the failure of leaders to encourage the
widespread adoption of new procurement
technologies and working practices.
A multilayered approach
Successful digitalisation programmes depend on organisations implementing
strategies that take into account people and processes, not just technologies
Organisations
pay millions
for technology
platforms. We
need to adopt them
and procurement
needs to take the
lead and show the
organisation how
it should be done
Matthew Edgar,
WNS Denali
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90%
Of CPOs say digital
transformation is
a high priority, but
only 28% report
high adoption rates
Source: WNS Denali
The vast majority of WNS Denali’s
procurement clients are focused on, and
investing in, their digital capabilities (90%
of CPOs indicate that digital transformation
is a high priority, but only 28% report great
adoption), and expect that focus to increase
in the coming years. However, the overall
digital maturity across these organisations
tends to be lower than the maturity of their
overall procurement function.
Most of the clients tend to fall in the
low to medium maturity category, with
only a few companies having a high digital
maturity. As a result, there are key needs
that procurement teams should focus on
addressing in each of these areas.
Generally, for functions in the early
stages, it is critical that they start with
a focus on their overall ecosystem and
building the right digital foundation.
For more digitally mature procurement
organisations, our focus turns to helping
Elevating digital maturity
Understanding the overall ecosystem of the function within your organisation is
critical to building the right digital foundations before moving to the next level
them to accelerate value by connecting
the dots across their ecosystems in several
key areas.
DIGITAL MATURITY
Low digital maturity organisations are
characterised by largely manual processes,
disparate and non-standard core systems and
limited access and visibility to data. The key
focus for these organisations is to establish a
strong digital foundation, including:
n Solidifyingcoreprocessesandestablishing
an efficient procurement operating model,
including making the function easy to
work with and connecting the strategy
through execution activities.
n
Establishing and optimising your core S2C
and P2P platforms, as these will carry the
bulk of your procurement process.
n
Mapping data maturity and initiating
core analytics. Mapping involves taking
account of all of your procurement
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FIG 1: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IMPERATIVES
data – spend, supplier, contract, market,
and so on – whether it exists, whether
it is accessibile, and whether it is of the
appropriate quality.
Medium digital maturity organisations
have generally established the foundational
elements, have an established strategic
category management driven function and
are looking to better leverage digital to
help support their next level of strategic
procurement. The focus for these businesses
is to build on their core procurement
platforms and implement key digital
accelerators to get to the next level of digital
maturity, including:
n
Making the procurement operating model
more frictionless and automated.
n
Driving more proactive and predictive
insights from data, knowledge and market
intelligence.
n
Supporting the needs of their next-
generation category managers.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Many clients who have established their
digital foundation with core S2C and P2P
systems are struggling to find the next level
of their digital transformation to support
their strategic evolution. Our ‘ecosystem
first’ approach to digital helps our clients to
connect the dots across this ecosystem by
integrating AI and digital technologies with
human intelligence.
Most of our clients have existing
technologies and core S2P platforms. These
platforms are a good foundation, but have
numerous gaps, leaving the procurement
ecosystem fragmented. In particular, we
have seen the need for technology solutions
that help to connect the dots:
n
Connecting the dots across complex
procurement processes and operating
models. Our Procurement Intelligent
Assistant (PIA) reduces friction for
business stakeholders, and ProjecTRAC
automates the end-to-end procurement
portfolio management.
n
Connecting the dots between disparate
data, knowledge and market intelligence
and the key players across the
procurement ecosystem. InsighTRAC and
KnowledgeTRAC help to uncover more
proactive and predictive insights from
all internal procurement data, knowledge
and external market intelligence.
n
Connecting the dots to support the
needs of strategic category management.
CategoryTRAC provides an actionable
workspace to access and utilise the
data and insights available to inform
their decisions.
WNS Denali digital solutions
complement and extend our clients’
core S2C and P2P systems by making
the procurement operating model more
frictionless and efficient, providing more
timely and actionable insights from data,
knowledge and market intelligence, and
driving measurable category management
maturity progress. n
Christopher Eyerman, WNS Denali
n
Solidify core processses and
operating model
n
Establish and optimise core
systems
n
Map data maturity; roadmap
n
Make the procurement operating
model more frictionless; automate
n
More proactive/predictive
insights from intelligence and
analytics
n
Support the needs of next-
generation category management
n
Procurement vision and
objectives
n
Map ecosystem current and
future state
PRE-REQUISITES
Key success factors and best practices across clients
DIGITAL FOUNDATION
KEY DIGITAL ACCELERATORS
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Case study: Healthcare provider
Case study: CPG company
A US healthcare insurance provider was
at the start of its procurement journey
and, as such, was at a very low level of
maturity. It selected WNS Denali as a key
partner to help set the vision and deliver
a foundational framework for the new
procurement function.
This new framework provided a category
management approach and operating model,
alongside core work processes and systems.
Processes and policies were overhauled.
“We focused on establishing the core
building blocks of a procurement function,”
says Kerri Beatty, head of academy and
enablement at WNS Denali. “They wanted
us to assess their organisation, get an
understanding of what ‘good’ looks like and
build a roadmap to achieve their vision.”
WNS Denali helped identify and
implement improvements for Oracle
Averymatureprocurementorganisationwas
undergoing a major transformation process.
It had put in place updated processes and
core systems alongside analytics, while the
role of category managers was well defined.
However, in discussions between the
organisation and WNS Denali, it was
apparent that it was less mature from a
digital standpoint.
“It was difficult for them to find where
they were optimal, and needed support to
gauge where to go next,” says Christopher
Eyerman, head of procurement innovation
at WNS Denali.
Opportunities to automate and digitise
further were discovered, and a suite of WNS
Denali’s digital solutions, called CPOTRAC,
was implemented. Among these solutions,
requisitioning and data analytics. It also
implemented the PIA Digital Assistant
to help procurement and the rest of
the business communicate effectively.
“The chatbot helps to reduce friction in
stakeholder interactions,” says Beatty.
As the company did not have a centralised
project-tracking approach, ProjecTRAC was
installed to track projects and activities.
“There needs to be an effective way of
managing pipeline and resource capacity
in order to advance maturity. This enables
long-range planning, increases stakeholder
visibility, and helps procurement teams
make the turn from reactive and tactical to
proactive and strategic,” she says.
The company now has many of the basic
tools in place, alongside an operating model
framework and digital roadmap, to develop
and mature. n
ProjecTRAC was used to automate project
management. A significant amount of data
on both spend and supplier could be further
leveraged and analytical tools including
InsighTRAC were installed.
“Category managers were doing a lot of
operational work, despite the procurement
function’s maturity,” says Eyerman. “We
looked to find the main kinks and iron them
out, moving the function into the realms
of optimisation.”
The multinational CPG company now
has a more efficient and effective category-
driven operating model. It also has a central
platform for sharing critical information
across regions. Enhanced analytics and
intelligence support the development of
category management. n
Building the foundations for a digital roadmap for a new procurement organisation
Gauging maturity and levelling up digitalisation for a mature function
We looked to find
the main kinks
and iron them out,
moving the function
into the realms
of optimisation
Christopher Eyerman,
WNS Denali
It is important, for
category maturity,
for it to be able to
manage and share
resource planning
Kerri Beatty
WNS Denali