Strategic Sourcing Services

Spend Analysis and Benchmarking
Provides an evaluation of your spend in relevant commodities against DSSI's proprietary database of pricing.

This service was designed to help companies improve their sourcing strategies and plans by stratifying indirect spend by commodity category, by location, by department or function and even by method of purchase. The results allow our customers to look across locations for opportunities to align supplier related requirements, standardize price points and service levels, leverage spend resulting in improved pricing, consolidate the supply base or conduct a sourcing effort. Too, our process assessment tools will help improve procurement processes and practices.

If your data isn't quite "analysis ready", our Catalog Development Service team stands ready to help gather, cleanse, and categorize your item data. Our veteran data collection teams will make what appears to be a daunting task very manageable.

Customer Specific Sourcing
Provides program management and domain expertise to manage negotiations and audit resulting performance.

There are many occasions where companies just don't have the time or expertise to conduct sourcing efforts for unique goods or services. We can help by identifying suppliers, negotiating terms and conditions and even in monitoring performance and compliance, where necessary. You can also call on our sourcing experts to help reduce operational complexity by identifying and executing item standardization programs.

Consortium Sourcing
Provides opportunities for improved pricing, service and terms by aggregating your spend with that of our other customers.

There is strength in numbers and we prove it every day to the benefit of all of our customers. Our sourcing experts regularly track and/or gather the commodity specific needs of our entire customer base and go to the supplier market in search of the best price and service combinations available. We use a "cyclical bid" process that invites customer participation and schedules commodity categories ensuring a frequent review. Our sourcing tools enable us to communicate with a vast number of suppliers electronically allowing optimum analysis and maximum sourcing flexibility.

The Benefits

• Understanding leading to improved strategies and plans
• Representation resulting in favorable contracts and consistent benefits, terms and conditions
• Leverage that provides ever increasing savings opportunities