Our Procurement Blog
What does Procurement Process and Farming Have in Common?
Using farming analogies and finding common ground to improve procurement process, systems and methods.
Procurement Explained to a Seven Year Old – Keeping it Simple
Procurement Explained as if to a 7 year old in simple what, why, who and when terms. Understanding the value of procurement support for your business.
Make Business Planning Your Roadmap to Business Success
Learn more about business planning and how to develop a roadmap for your business growth and success.
Three Procurement Lessons from Jimmy: Purpose, Simplicity and Attitude
Insight for procurement leaders to implement procurement lessons such as purpose, simplicity and attitude to optimise your procurement team.
Seven Procurement Leadership Qualities for Improving Procurement
Procurement mentoring insights from Ichiban Commercial Solutions on the top 7 procurement leadership qualities needed for effective teams.
4 Quick Tips for Improving Demonstrated Similar Experience
4 Quick Tips for Improving your Demonstrated Similar Experience response in tendering to improve your tendering success.
Six Techniques for Optimising Your Project Procurement
Techniques for project procurement optimisation – remove the pain points from your project procurement.
9 Tips to Improve the Tendering Experience for Your Suppliers
9 Tips for improving the tendering experience for your suppliers in order to get more supplier to respond to tender requests.
Your Capability Statement is about your Customer more than You
Develop your Capability Statement to show how you solve customer problems. Template/guide available for purchase.
Our Procurement Solutions
PROCUREMENT LEADERSHIP
Industry best practice shows leading procurement teams achieve 7.5 times their cost in value through cost savings and efficiency improvements.
What results are your procurement achieving?
Do you need assistance with benchmarking your procurement team’s performance or improving their effectiveness?
BUSINESS STRATEGY
Are you looking to grow your business but don’t know if you have the right business capability?
Do you need assistance with your business planning to develop your strategy for business growth?
Do you need someone with a fresh set of eyes to facilitate your business planning and strategic sessions to get your people to think outside the box?
TENDERING FOR SUCCESS
How do you know if your business is ready or not to tender?
Do you need assistance with preparing, submitting, evaluation and/or negotiation of tenders?
Have you tried your hand with tenders but gave up in frustration but you are now ready to try again?
Do you need to create tenders and quotes to go out to your suppliers?