Strategic Sourcing/ProCentric™ Consortium

DSSI provides strategic sourcing tailored to specific commodity needs either as a one time sourcing event or ongoing through its ProCentric™ Consortium solution. You benefit from DSSI's multi-client aggregation, supplier intelligence and spend category expertise, driving item level cost savings and supply base rationalization.

Benchmarking

DSSI's experience managing multiple client's indirect spend across industries and company sizes provides us with unique insight into procurement organizations, systems, practices and outputs. This knowledge allows us to efficiently analyze existing capabilities and recommend best practices and solutions so you can focus on areas of greatest impact.

Audit Services

In 2005, U.S. businesses overpaid suppliers in excess of $5 Billion despite record spending and subsequent deployment of accounting and enterprise resource planning systems and processes. DSSI provides the knowledgeable resources to independently analyze supplier contact compliance, facilitate the recovery process and deliver results to your bottom line.

Data Collection/Cleansing

The first step in controlling and managing spend is to understand what you buy. Unfortunately, very few companies truly know what they buy due to disparate systems and processes and lack of standardized data records. DSSI's proven data mining and cleansing services provide you spend visibility and enables future cost savings initiatives.

Product Standardization

DSSI's deep commodity expertise allows us work with end users to understand requirements and consult with suppliers to develop a unique grouping of commodity-specific items, which represent the best in practice products. Through this process buy in is established from end users and you benefit realized cost savings.

Implementation Services

It is during the implementation phase that the success of a program is determined. DSSI has managed numerous implementations and has integrated its learning into a defined process which systematically addresses each component of a program launch incorporating many change management and communication best practices to help organizations embrace new initiatives. Experienced resources and proven processes enable efficient and effective program launches, creating the bridge between your strategy and results.

ProCentric™ is for companies looking to tap into DSSI's vast indirect procurement knowledge and capabilities to meet overall purchasing goals.