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Overview

A Holistic Approach for Sourcing Success

Sourcing requires a holistic, strategic approach and stakeholder alignment to be successful. We provide category-specific insights and sourcing strategies addressing all aspects of AQSCIR: Assurance of Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, and Regulatory needs.

A Holistic Approach for Sourcing Success

OUR APPROACH

Strategic Sourcing for Enduring Business Outcomes

We help you develop process rigor, best-in-class strategies, and an ecosystem-wide focus on areas that affect your spend categories. Our robust and repeatable sourcing methodology, backed by powerful technology and tools helps you achieve your evolving goals.

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Expertise

We help you uncover the right levers to deploy to maximize the impact of your sourcing work.

Flexibility

Develop an agile, segmented sourcing framework for your unique procurement ecosystem.

Passion

We bring relentless creativity and commitment that go beyond the stated objectives of your sourcing program.

Innovation

Use design thinking to create the right mix of digital and service offerings to enhance your sourcing capabilities.

Services

Experience Best-in-Class Sourcing Offerings

We help you build sourcing processes with predictable outcomes, overcome execution challenges and apply category expertise across sourcing levers to enable you to achieve your goals.

Strategic Sourcing

Looking at the big picture ensures you arrive at sourcing strategies that truly meet the needs of your business. WNS Procurement's team of strategic sourcing experts takes a collaborative, situation-specific approach to discovering the optimal strategy for a given category of spend. Sourcing initiatives are conducted with the rigor of best-in-class processes and a robust project management structure.

Our approach to strategic sourcing helps category leaders achieve success step by step:

• Understand your business’ true needs
• Understand the forces at play that influence the category
• Develop a sourcing strategy tailored to fit your situation
• Execute strategy with best in class delivery

Sourcing Execution

Once you’ve arrived at the best way forward for your spend category, ensure the execution of that strategy is robust and of the highest quality. Whether your agreed approach involves an RFx, direct negotiation, auction, we partner with you to ensure that those steps achieve excellence.

Alignment with current data privacy, regulatory, risk management, and other industry or governmental requirements is key to the sustainability of your sourcing effort. The WNS Procurement team is at the forefront of the conversation here and will work with you to address each of these factors throughout your sourcing execution process.

Opportunity Assessments

Where are your biggest possible wins? Before diving into the details of a specific spend category, it’s critical to get a bird’s eye view and identify all the opportunities that may be waiting for you. Only after this full assessment can we begin to develop and prioritize the strategies that will be best to pursue first, and identify the important linkages across categories that will speak to the way we source.

From there, we’ll work to develop a sourcing approach that tackles the highest-priority opportunities first, flowing through a wave plan that’s both impactful and sustainable as you continue to manage your day-to-day business.

Responsible Sourcing

Proactively and consciously source and procure products and services in an ethical, sustainable, and socially conscious way. We assist our clients right from creating a Responsible sourcing policy aligned to the organisation goal, analysing impact a sourcing action would make, taking affirmative action to achieve the set goals, and tracking the impact and achievements versus the set responsible Sourcing goals.

Tail Spend Management

One of the most common findings in an opportunity assessment is a long ‘tail’ of lower-spend suppliers. Do 80 percent of your suppliers comprise 20 percent of your spending? If so, perhaps it’s time to assess why, and develop programs that both maximize the contribution of your key preferred suppliers and reduce the administrative burden on your organization. Managing tail spend can be a highly effective approach for organizations of all sizes and industries. WNS Procurement's tail spend programs are differentiated by our digital offerings, which help you proactively drive further efficiencies in your tail spend management.

Market Intelligence & Spend Analytics

Paramount to the success of any sourcing program is the enabling data and information. WNS Procurement, Powered by The Smart Cube, enables you with CPOTRAC suite and Amplifi PRO to ensure that every step of our collaboration is rooted in clear, digitally enabled market and data-driven insights.

We help you with data-guided projects — from opportunity assessment through execution. Internal and external data combined with latest market happenings in the category will be the corner stone of the sourcing strategy and shape the path forward for every sourcing process.

Our Expert

Hear from Our Supply Chain Expert

Satyen Pathak leads Global Knowledge Functions at WNS Procurement. He leads a team of subject matter experts in building innovative sustainable solutions and engagement models for Clients. His passion for procurement and supply chain began early in his career while working in the manufacturing industry and serving clients in automotive and industrial manufacturing. Satyen spent the subsequent 12 years in various roles supporting business development, supply chain, procurement, and product development and the last 13 years managing solutions and capability development for procurement and supply chain services. Satyen is an MBA in General Management from IIM Ahmedabad, a Mechanical Engineer, and a certified Six-Sigma Green belt.

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Satyen Pathak
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Category Management

Transition from being a tactical operator to a strategic advisor to achieve new levels of stakeholder satisfaction and increase spend under management

Advisory Services

Discover 'the science of possible' within your procurement operating model as we help you solve real problems in practical ways

Contracting

Streamline and operationalize your buy-side contracting process to manage risks, improve cross-functional collaboration, and reduce cycle times

Digital

Optimize your technology roadmap to accelerate your digital transformation and realize the benefits sooner

Procure-to-Pay

Ensure your category strategies and contracted savings are realized at the point of purchase

Sourcing

Generate value on your organization’s bottom line through sustainable cost savings and build a rich pipeline of future cost improvement opportunities

Supplier Management

Monitor and manage your supplier relationships to reduce risks, improve performance, and promote supplier-enabled innovation

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