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A pervasive business scenario many strategic sourcing business frameworks aim to solve is the challenge of achieving sustainable growth procurement strategy. The fact is that most companies experience difficulty achieving noteworthy growth, year over year. For those companies that do see significant growth rates, these growth rates also decay rapidly. Over the last 50 years, Fortune 500 organizations typically see an average growth rate of in less than 6% in real terms (and under 10% in nominal terms). Enterprise companies struggle to grow. Moreover, real top line growth is much less stable than ROIC going from 1% to 11%. Only about a fourth of the Fortune 500 businesses are able to sustain sales strategic sourcing above the GDP and generate returns above the Standard & Poors 500. Companies that have greater than 25% top line growth almost always diminish down to 5% within 10 years.

To foster creative thinking, we must try to create the optimal conditions are in place, including timing and strategy contributors strategic sourcing. A mixed team bringing complementary points of view will contribute better results for strategy development. Break away the procurement strategy effort from financial and other planning activities. Often the procurement strategy session is not given enough time. Creating a new strategy every year is rather counter productive; instead, conduct a full comprehensive procurement strategy every 3 years depending on competitive pressures. Management and other personnel in the procurement strategy session should be from a diverse mix of functional specialties, that involve both internal and external participants, and should have intimacy with the issue in discussion.

Each strategic sourcing stage is seen as an an original organizational structure and hang up of management objectives procurement strategy. Each stage takes a different set of management style. The corporation partcipates in detailed strategic sourcing and strategic planning. The C-level is responsible for driving innovation and risk management to guide the corporation from ossification. It is often not similar team as with the 1st 2 stages. Important decisions are delegated to line managers that have teams that belongs to them to execute on tasks. By the last stage, the management team is appropriatedly staffed and experienced.

A pervasive business scenario many strategic sourcing business frameworks try to fully address is the challenge of achieving sustainable growth strategic sourcing. The fact is that most companies experience difficulty gaining noteworthy growth, year over year. Companies that have greater than 20% top line growth almost always diminish down to 5% within 10 years. Between the 1960s and 2010, Fortune 500 companies typically see a median growth rate of in less than 8% in real terms (and under 10% in nominal terms). Only about a quarter of the Fortune 500 businesses are able to sustain revenue strategic sourcing above the GDP and generate returns above the Standard & Poors 500. Additionally, 90% of most businesses are concentrated across the four sectors of Financial Services, Life Sciences, Technology, and Retail & Distribution. Large organizations struggle to grow. Furthermore, real sales growth fluctuates more than return on invested capital ranging from 3% to 12%.

Today, there are a couple schools of thinking around strategic sourcing strategic sourcing. Henry Mintzberg proposes for an organization, bottom-ups strategy to drive the strategy development process that hinges upon organizational configuration. Price penetration strategy is best used when the product reaches the majority of the market and competition is vying for share strategic sourcing. At this point, this is a race to fight for 10% plus of the market. As we enter the mainstream market, as survival is correlated with share. Most competitors, both incumbents and new entrants will using price penetration strategy.

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