Which technology should we choose? Finding the platform that fits your processes and operating model, and being ready for it before a contract is signed.
Your vendors run their part of the process. Procurement Code works on your side of it.
Written from the operating model you're moving to, not a description of today's process.
Responses and demos
Success criteria agreed first. Procurement Code runs your side of the test with real users.
The platform set up for the test
4 to 6 weeks
Processes, data, controls, integrations and sponsors checked against what the platform will need.
Commercial terms and the build plan
A decision finance and IT have agreed, with the business case built and the first use cases ready.
The build starts
Deciding which platform fits your processes and operating model before a contract is signed. Where a proof of concept is the right test, Procurement Code runs your side of it.
A suite renewal is coming up, or the business keeps buying tools procurement didn't choose.
A check that your processes, data, controls, integrations and sponsors are ready for a specific platform. It takes four to six weeks, can run alongside a vendor's proof of concept and ends in a recommendation to go ahead, change course or stop.
You want the foundations right before the build starts.
In my last in-house role I brought in procurement platforms and ran proofs of concept across a group of businesses. Procurement Code takes no commission or referral fee from any vendor.
Choosing the platform is rarely where it goes wrong. These are the four places projects stall, and each is easier to settle before the build starts.
You've seen the demo but not your own process running on it.
Get your leadership team in a room to choose the first use case from your own data.
Nobody has agreed where to start, or what results the first phase is meant to deliver.
Agree the phases and the value each must deliver, with finance signing off the targets.
Every platform needs other functions to agree, whether that's finance, IT, legal or the teams who will use it. What they hear is a procurement project.
Name a sponsor in each function the project touches before the build, and write the business case with finance.
No one can say what the team will do differently, or who runs the platform afterwards.
Design the operating model and the roles before the build, including who owns the platform.
Tell me what you're weighing up and we can work out which of these would help.
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