This Strategic Sourcing Guide is DIFFERENT from books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this is not for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Strategic Sourcing challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. Ask questions like:* What issues are driving business systems strategic capital planning?* What are the biggest challenges procurement professionals will face in the future?* Do you have the optimal project management team structure?* What is the purchasing functions responsibility for cost/price of purchased goods/services?* Who will have overall responsibility for the supply arrangement and what is level of authority?* What are the key considerations that you should know?* What are the fundamental elements that comprise successful sourcing and procurement strategies?* What is the extent of competition in the market?* What do you do to minimize the burden and give your project a greater chance of success?Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Strategic Sourcing investments work better.This Strategic Sourcing All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Strategic Sourcing Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Strategic Sourcing maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Strategic Sourcing improvements can be made.In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Strategic Sourcing projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Strategic Sourcing and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelinesUsing the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Strategic Sourcing Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Strategic Sourcing areas need attention.Your purchase includes access to the Strategic Sourcing self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.