Our Approach
OAG approach bridges project management methodology, process improvement with Sourcing and Vendor management principles to define and establish your third-party management program. Our commitment is to have you walk away with a clear plan that accounts for your business needs.
Procurement and Sourcing Design Services
Procurement teams have pivotal responsibilities at every stage of the third-party relationship, from sourcing vendors and conducting pre-contract due diligence, to assessing vendor performance, monitoring contract expirations, and terminating contracts. Without proper due diligence and processes to comprehensively manage lifecycle on a regular basis, organizations can be exposed to value leakage and interruptions in service delivery.
OAG assess your sourcing lifecycle, processes, and workflows to provide a unified solution that provides programmatic processes for ongoing management of third parties while mitigating risk through vendor lifecycle.
Vendor Management Design Services
OAG program design services assess your current environment, identify gaps, and establish your third-party governance program. We incorporate the best end-to-end practices for your outsourced governance needs. These include but are not limited to:
Establishing & Managing Steering & Working Groups
Identify stakeholders, defining/designing meeting structure/formats, creating presentations and managing meeting minutes and follow up action items
Scope Program & Business Requirements
Identify business needs, document requirements and align on expectations
Define SLAs and KPIs:
Conduct Interviews to interpret current performance metrics and identify gaps. Align with stakeholders on business services and work with stakeholders to define metrics that support the service delivery needs.
Review or Define governance processes
Review end to end processes for a cohesive workflow. Review existing sourcing and Vendor management policies and processes: Analyze and review existing policies for opportunities
Review Team Structure & Capacity
Assess current team capabilities, skills sets, operating model, org structure. Assess workloads for optimal resource allocation
Educating the Team
Identify training and communication needs. Aligning with executive leaders, members, and other business
Review or Define governance processes
Document a project plan for implementing governance solutions. Provide project management resources for management and delivery
Vendor Management Implementation Services
OAG will partner to deliver your designed vendor management program. Services include:
- Define success criteria and manage governance implementation plan
- Prioritize & Tier Vendors
- Drive Delivery of your Governance
- Create Governance Processes and Templates
- Assist with Go 'Live, Knowledge Transfer
- Drive Adoption and support Change Management
- Develop and deliver training programs for your Executives and managers
Consulting
Corporate Governance
If you are standing up a new procurement and vendor management organization OR looking to assess your outsourcing governance and maturity capabilities, allow us to partner with you to develop your needs. We can support maturity assessments or end to end plans.
Business Owners
Are you a small or midsize business gearing up to respond to RFx?
Allow our team to assist you in research, response and developing your presentation to competitively market bid. We bring forth our experience working on both ends of outsourcing to support your needs. Contact us today to schedule a consultation.
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