Adaptive Sourcing: Agile Procurement in Practice

Description

This course unites two worlds – IT and Procurement. Both functions are now going through significant business and technological transformation to comply with Industry 4.0.

Our course is very practical – It is half exercises, case studies, and ideas for multimodal sourcing strategies to apply straight after learning.

Instead of talking about Agile procurement, we’ll suggest practical advice for its realization synthesized from classical theories and renowned concepts.

In 2022, the standardized “unisex” governance on all occasions is a repelling anachronism, which does so much more damage to the company than any competitors.

We need to apply flexible process logic depending on the situation selectively.

A bimodal operating model precisely allows that. Therefore, it attracted IT professionals and procurement, creating “bimodal IT” and “bimodal procurement.”

This course will explain the origins of the bimodal operating model, its bright sides, and its deficiencies.

We’ll present Adaptive Sourcing as the synthesis of different concepts, which elaborates on bimodal procurement but goes well beyond its remits. Essentially, it is the practical realization of Agile procurement.

We’ll also propose a custom sourcing strategy that puts our theoretical definitions into practice.

Of course, we will blend all of the above with multiple discussion topics and real-life examples.

Indeed, Adaptive Sourcing is one of the implementations of Agile Procurement 4.0 – flexible, variable, and streamlined.

You may start practicing it immediately!