ISM® Strategic Sourcing Assessments
The ISM® Strategic Sourcing Maturity Models are an in depth look at critical skills needed for sourcing suppliers of goods and services. The assessments include a comprehensive set of competency-based standards for high-performing supply management organizations and teams of individuals worldwide. It is a strategic tool that helps your supply management team and organization deepen its strategic sourcing capability by building skills, deepening bench strength talent and ultimately driving profits and revenues. Creating independent and interdependent capabilities will drive strategic value for the company’s long-term success.
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Organizational Competency Assessments
Using the organization maturity assessment, SCM employees and stakeholders assess the overall capability of the organization with an emphasis on strategic sourcing. These capabilities are aligned to a maturity model that has been developed by ISM and SCM subject matter experts from multiple industries. Leaders will be able to create improvement strategies and employee development programs to deliver strategic value across the company. Impact will be measurable in both bottom-line costs and top-line revenues.
Competencies Measured
7 core competencies are measures within this assessment. Understanding baseline maturity and opportunities for growth is key to building long-term strategic planning. This will also assist in developing your organizational maturity from emerging to transformative.
- Organization
- Spend Management
- Sourcing Processes
- Valued Strategic Partner
- Supply Chain Resilience
- Skills and Capabilities
- Technology Enablement
Results
With organizational capability results and data, supply management leaders will be able to create improvement strategies and employee development programs to deliver strategic value across the company. By using this data, leaders can also create roadmaps and plot where their organization is currently on the maturity level and identify strategic plan for desired levels of maturity and communicate those plans within the organization. Impact can be measurable in both bottom-line costs and top-line revenues.
Organizational Maturity Levels
Based on insights from practitioners and other subject matter experts, organizational maturity progression is mapped as follows. This targeted growth pattern moves organizations from emerging to transformative: