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 Company or Part Family
Procurement Strategies

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 Customer Problem

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  • Many manufacturers struggle to meet overall company supplier cost save & other SCM objectives, risking business plan, poor performance reviews, lost compensation, long hours to fix this

  • Lack resources to create robust supply chain improvement roadmaps

  • No recent benchmarking to quantify gaps and leverage best SCM practices across industries

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 Customer Problem

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  • Not delivering Part Family or Category Strategies to achieve cost, quality, delivery or technical objectives

  • Weak supplier improvement  roadmaps & resource constraints

  • Not leveraging procurement & cross-functional expertise across global spend

  • Risks business plans, supply disruptions, poor performance reviews, lost compensation, long hours

Our solution: 5-week Company Procurement Guide/Roadmap engagement

  • Identifies & prioritizes opportunities and action plans to help your team accelerate procurement value across the company for production and indirect spend including logistics 

  • Provides significant cost savings, inventory reductions, supplier quality/delivery/relationship improvements, helping your team surpass performance objectives!

  • Roadmap includes 10 high impact improved value and process improvement recommendations with clear savings/benefits, any resource requirements, timing

  • DSGA offers to help your team implement any of the major roadmap actions for guaranteed savings

Our solution: 8-week Part Family or Category Strategy engagement​

  • DS Group Advisors offers customized part family strategy engagements to help our customers achieve world class supplier cost, quality, delivery, and technology

  • Our process applies to major production part families/commodities and indirect categories (Maintenance, Repair, Operations expenses, Logistics, Energy, Capital Equipment, and others)

  • Assess part family team maturity versus Best-In-Class levels and recommend cross-functional part family team structure and written procedure

  • Lead client's part family or category team to develop a holistic commodity strategy that defines key actions to achieve all key performance objectives.  We offer to implement any of the action plans.​

​DSGA Expertise & Process
DSGA Principal Drew Sheffield: 

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  • 25+ years outstanding achievements and experience leading global procurement

  • Buyer to Purchasing Director at Ford

  • Global Purchasing Director at TI & ZF

  • Board of Governors & Chair MEMA/OESA Chief Purchasing Officer's Council

  • Member of Wayne State University's Supply Chain Management Advisory Board

  • Recognized expert in corporate procurement, procurement expert witness

  • Leading engagements for manufacturers across industries since 2020

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& DSGA Lead Consultant, Logistics 

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  • 20 years deep SCM/logistics experience

  • Principal at SCM/Logistics Consulting Co.

  • Ford Motor Company various SCM roles

  • Bosch SCM/logistics Manager for NA

  • Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University's #1 rated SCM program

  • Many prior engagements with DSGA

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... both follow a proven company procurement guide process to benchmark your company's procurement maturity, strategies and practices and work closely with your teams to develop an actionable roadmap to surpass key 2026 objectives! 

 

​Scope covers production & indirect spend including logistics:​​

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  1. Procurement Strategy & Organization Alignment

  2. Supplier Management

  3. Commodity/Category Strategies & Cost

  4. Employee Development

  5. Technology (Analytics, AI ...)​

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... & both lead the Commodity & Category Strategy engagements.

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Our principal led development of: Ford's 1st Global Council Brake Purchasing Team & Strategy and co-led Ford's 1st Brake cross-functional Strategic Commodity Team & Strategy, both earning Top Achiever performance reviews.

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He led development of the 1st Global Commodity Teams and Commodity Strategies at TI Automotive, enabling outstanding supplier commercial, quality, delivery, technical accomplishments!

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Our Lead Consultant, Logistics is also a noted expert in SCM, with fantastic accomplishments especially in logistics, freight, and warehouse strategy and execution.

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We've been in senior corporate procurement roles working with major consultants for global spend assessments.   You can spend several hundred thousand $ for a six-month cost save engagement, often theoretical (with Linear Parametric Price gaps) ... or hire us for a small fraction of the cost for a five-week Company Procurement Guide or eight-week Part Family Strategy engagement covering the same major elements and cost levers, and providing a more practical roadmaps.

Company Procurement Strategy Guide & Roadmap

 Document Review

  • Organization Charts

  • Performance Objectives

  • Procurement Procedures

  • Spend Detail

  • Commodity/Supplier Strategies

  • Supplier Performance/Scorecards

  • Major Supply Contracts

  • Organization charts

  • Company & Procurement Objectives

  • Purchasing/Supplier Quality Procedures

  • Spend Reports (by Division, Region, Commodity, Major Suppliers...)

  • Commodity or Category Strategies

  • Supplier Scorecards

  • Supplier Contracts

 1x1 Interviews

Interview

  Company & Division:

  • Purchasing VPs (& Logistics leads)

  • PUR Commodity Team Leaders (if applicable)

  • Supplier Quality leads

  • Presidents or EVPs

  • Finance leads 

  • Operations/Plant Managers

B-I-C Survey

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  • Proprietary 60Q Best-In-Class Survey

  • ~15 x-functional leaders at client 

  • Client & DSGA ratings correlated

  • Benchmark vs other manufacturers

  • Identifies weaker areas to prioritize for further reviews/recommendations

  • Identifies strengths to leverage

Commodity Team Mtgs.

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  • Visit plant, review major production/ indirect/logistics spend & SCM insights

  • Meetings with 2-3 of the top impact Commodity/Category Teams

  • Review challenges/opportunities

  • Work with teams to enhance insights & improve project recommendations

  • Quantify opportunities, resources, key actions, timing

Executive Recommendations

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  • ~10 Recommendations covering production/logistics/indirect spend

  • High quantified savings with any resource requirements & timing

  • DSGA offers to help client implement savings.  Very high ROI!

  • Outstanding SCM Value including:

        COST        QUALITY/SERVICE  DELIVERY/INVENTORY TECHNOLOGY

Part Family Strategies

Strategy Elements (Client Example)

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DSGA provides an overall best-in-class Commodity Strategy Procedure and leads creation of a holistic strategy for one major commodity.  We cover:

  • Co, Purchasing & Commodity objectives

  • Commodity/supplier spend details and C, Q, D, T performance

  • Landed cost analysis

  • Create Top Supplier profiles

  • Strategic Analysis

  • Executive Summary

Executive Summary

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We summarize the key few commodity strategy takeaways in an executive summary (example provided)

  • Many Short-Term Actions

  • 3-4 Long-Term Actions

  • Overall commodity performance status versus objectives

Strategic Analysis

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Work cross-functionally to complete strategic analysis for the commodity:

  • SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities, threats)

  • PESTLE (political, economical,  sociocultural, technological, legal, environment)

We use these results to brainstorm and enhance the part commodity strategy​

Commodity Strategy Outputs (Action Plan example) 

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The commodity strategy outputs:

  • Executive Summary

  • Approved Supplier List for Sourcing

  • Short-Term Action Plan (ex. picture)

  • Long-Term Action Plan

  • Strategy defines game plan to surpass key commodity objectives

​ COST     QUALITY/SERVICE  DELIVERY/INVENTORY  TECHNOLOGY

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Excellent Job! I love this presentation! DS Group Advisors provided detailed recommendations for $4.3-5.6M in high confidence (mostly incremental) 1st year savings plus big improvements in Vendor Managed Inventory, spend visibility, and introduction of a high impact supplier scorecard across divisions.  

Vice President, Supply Chain & Logistics, $350M Global Electronics Manufacturer

Avoid negative consequences of missing your cost savings & other SCM objectives:

  • poor performance reviews, lost compensation, slower career advancement

  • stress and long hours to identify & execute new roadmap actions

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We offer a complimentary 30-minute strategy consultation.  Would this work well for you?  

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