The CKS answer to Outsourcing: Advantages for the Client
Economical : Enhanced Purchasing Performance
- Price agreements
- Mass, multi-client purchasing
- Compliance enhancement
- Purchasing Experts covering all categories
- Freedom for internal purchasing to focus on high value items
Productivity : Improved performance of purchasing procedures
- Electronic billing for all outsourced purchases
- Shared costs for overhead, investment, tools, expertise
- Centralised/dedicated organisation (vs silos according to industry, Business Units, countries ...)
- Regularly updated reference lists (freed up administration)
Quality : Heightened service quality for
- Users (Electronic catalogs, tools to monitor requests ...)
- Management (scorecards, SLA indicators)
- Internal purchasers (Business Intelligence Tools)
Financial : Minimal risk
- No investment (in tools, e.g. catalogs, electronic billing, Business Intelligence ...)
- Reduced capitalized costs (Variable costs)
