On Demand Procurement Help & Support

Results-Producing Sourcing and Procurement Services by Corcentric

Procurement Help Desk & Support Services

It doesn’t always make sense to hire a strategic sourcing category expert or procurement professional for every single aspect of your corporate spend. The return on investment for hiring and retaining talented multi-disciplined procurement professionals also can have a diminishing return once you move past your top supplier contracts or top spend categories. But traditional consultants from the big firms charge way too much money and often require minimum guarantees of work that far exceed what hiring an extra procurement person or two would cost anyhow. And in some cases, the procurement support they provide is too generic and doesn’t provide the depth of category or sourcing expertise that you are looking for.

But now, Corcentric has the answer to your dilemma. With our sourcing and procurement support services, you have access to the right procurement team, with the right procurement experience – when you need them, as you need them; regardless of the type of procurement project you are tackling. Think of us as a help desk for procurement.

Use our on-demand procurement advisors from our procurement help desk:

Procurement strategy advisory services
Procurement policy development
Strategic sourcing strategy
Strategic sourcing support
Global supplier identification services
Negotiation support
Contract benchmarking support
Procurement department benchmarking
Procurement staffing design
Procurement salary benchmark data
Category support in specialty spend categories
RFP design
Supplier Scorecarding
Savings tracking
Procurement metrics design
SRM and supplier diversity questions
Surge support for sourcing initiatives
Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) strategies
Procurement system and procurement technology selection
Procurement executive advisory

With our on-demand e-procurement help desk, you can get immediate support to a variety of procurement and sourcing challenges. Think about having access to one of the largest, most sophisticated subject matter leaders in procurement that can help build your strategies, support your negotiations, revise your procurement policies, or support your sourcing needs. Our customized accounts payable help desk is a flexible retainer service that gives you access to a whole pool of experts with a wide variety of expertise for far less than the cost of using a lone single-focused consultant.

Ready to get access to an entire team of strategic sourcing experts and hundreds of collective years of procurement experience? Contact Corcentric’s Procurement Help Desk today!

Sourcing Experts on Retainer

Corcentric works with your team to understand your ongoing procurement needs and will build a procurement support retainer agreement customized to your organization. We estimate how much time you will need from our sourcing and procurement experts and establish what type of sourcing and procurement support projects you are looking for. We then build a discounted pre-paid support package under a retainer agreement. As your team needs sourcing or procurement help, they simply call us or initiate a ticket to get support from any one of our experts in any spend category or procurement capacity. We allow some rollover hours too, so you can bank this months’ time to tackle a larger procurement initiative next month.

Our procurement help desk services provide:

Subject Matter Expertise in Over 100 Categories
Procurement Metrics Advice
Procurement Dashboards Advice
Procurement Benchmarking Services
Procurement Transformation Consulting
Category Benchmarking Services
Procurement Policy Advisory
Supplier Diversity Advisory
VMS and SRM Advisory

Procurement and Sourcing Help Desk In Action

A Medical Device Manufacturer, initially looking for support nearshoring manufacturing operations to gain more visibility and control of their supply base, received that and much more through Corcentric’s Procurement and Sourcing Help Desk Model. With the right on-demand combination of procurement capabilities, strategic sourcing resources, and proven supply management best practices, Corcentric help the client significantly reduce costs and optimize their supply base. Take a deeper look at the results our Procurement Help desk delivered through our flexible strategic sourcing and procurement consulting services.

Achieve World-Class Procurement Status

We’re not just a research firm that will hand you back generic procurement research statistics. We’re not just collecting information from phone calls. Our procurement experts and sourcing experts are real life execution-focused professionals that are living and breathing procurement projects and sourcing engagements for our clients every day. Our perspective is unique, in that we know what it takes to be successful; and have more than just an academic understanding of procurement challenges.