What We Do

Link Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibilty

As an independent full service provider, experienced in Sourcing, Procurement, Supply Chain Management and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Social Management we serve our customers with Sourcing | Corporate Responsibility | Communication services.

Sourcing

Sustainable Managed Sourcing

As an independant full service provider, experienced in Sourcing, Procurement, Supply Chain Management and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Social Management we serve our customers with category management, sustainable spend management, legal advice, sustainable contract management, sustainable supplier management, RFI / RFP management and eAuction management services.

The purpose of this activity is to determine the products and/or services and the important category specific processes that make up the category and its segmentation.

Category Role

We assign the category role (purpose) based on a cross-category analysis considering the supply-and buy-sides.

Category Assessment

We conduct an analysis of the categories, sub-categories, segments, based on buy-and supply-side information.

Implementation Plan

We develop and implement category/sub-category/project-specific source plans and make-or-buy analysis to achieve the category role, strategies, tactics and score card of the sourcing/purchasing unit(s) and the various stakeholders and shareholders.

Category Negotiation Strategies

We develop, determine or refine the optimal category/sub-category/project-specific negotiation strategy.

Category Negotiation through traditional negotiation

We participate, assist or lead your traditional bidder/supplier negotiations.

Category Negotiation through reversed eAuctions, dutch-eAuctions and reversed dutch-eAuctions

We assist or lead through the strategic sourcing process for one or more categories/sub-categories, including development of the category profile through reversed eAuctions, dutch-eAuctions or reversed dutch-eAuctions. For more information please check our various offers around e-sourcing.

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identify your spend
segment your spend
analyse your spend
benchmark your spend
compare your spend
display your spend
optimise your spend
monitor/control your spend

Our programs

Increase of spend economics of scale program
Increase process efficiencies program
Increase sourcing efficiency program
Increase procurement efficiency program
Decreasing maverick spend program

We develop supplier contracts including the link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibilty within all your sourcing procurement categories.

We provide legal advice regarding to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Social Management, regulatory and compliance issues.Conception and drafting of sustainable, functional, comprehensible and enforceable supplier contracts.
Drafting of labor contracts or collective bargaining agreements.Our programs

  • Labor Compliance Assessment Program
  • Continuous Labor Compliance Improvement and Engagement Monitoring Program

Conception and drafting of sustainable, functional, comprehensible and enforceable supplier contracts.

We develop supplier contracts including the link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibilty within all your sourcing procurement categories.We implement a supplier independent service management.We design supplier independent service level agreements.we

assess/review your contracts
check your contracts
extend your contracts
design/develop your contracts
negotiate your contracts
renegotiate your contracts
validate your contracts
monitor your contracts
administrate your contracts

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assess/review your service level agreements
check your service level agreements
extend your service level agreements
design/develop your service level agreements
negotiate your service level agreements
renegotiate your service level agreements
validate your service level agreements
monitor your service level agreements
administrate your service level agreements

To secure your business continuity our supplier management services go beyond than just remote managing the contract.

Our services also monitor the overall social and economical performance and relationship with the supplier and the involved internal and extranal stakeholders.wesearch your suppliers
pre-qualify your suppliers
rate your suppliers
segment your suppliers
choose your suppliers
change your suppliers
integrate your suppliers
control your suppliers
guide your suppliers
care your suppliers
develop your suppliers

Our programs

Supplier „on-boarding“ and Up/Down-grading program
Supplier training program
Supplier labor compliance assessments program
Supplier pre-qualificiation program
Offshore sourcing program
Green purchasing program
Sustainable e-sourcing program
Simple and smart source-to-pay program
Supply Market Discovery Service
The purpose of this activity is to determine the suppliers that make up the supply market and its segmentation.

Bidder pre-Qualification Service

We conduct an analysis of your bidders based on buy-and supply-side information.

Supplier Qualification Service

We conduct an analysis of your suppliers based on buy-and supply-side information.

Supplier Assessment and Segmentation Service

We conduct an assessment and segmentation of your suppliers, sub-suppliers, based on buy-and supply-side information.

Strategical Analysis of your Supplier-situation

We conduct an analysis of your suppliers, sub-suppliers, based on buy-and supply-side information.

Supplier Risk Management Service

We support your company/organisation identifying significant financial issues, prioritize sustainability risks and opportunities to ensure that your organisation resources are focused strategically.

Negotiation strategy

We develop, determine or refine the optimal supplier/project-specific negotiation strategy.

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plan your RFI / RFP
design your RFI / RFP
optimise your RFI / RFP
carry out and manage your RFI / RFP / eAuctionswe

check/verify your supplier offers
evaluate your supplier offers
analyse your supplier offers
benchmark your supplier offers
negotiate your supplier offers

We successfully manage a total expenditure of approx. 300 Mio CHF / year in various sourcing categories with eSourcing (eRFI/eRFP) tools on behalf of our customers.
e.g. Capital Investment and Infrastructure, Information Technology, various Services, Maintenance Services, Software, Hardware, Laboratory Equipment and Services.

With 10 years eRFI/eRFP daily hands-on experience in the various related categories and projects we will fully support you to take advantage of the different eRFI/eRFP tools and processes.

We would be happy to talk with you to find ways we might be able to help you with your RFI / RFP management issues and goals.

We
plan your eAuctions
design your eAuctions
optimise your eAuctions
carry out and manage your eAuctionsWe successfully manage a total expenditure of approx. 300 Mio CHF / year in various sourcing categories with eSourcing (eRFI/eRFP) tools on behalf of our customers.
e.g. Capital Investment and Infrastructure, Information Technology, various Services, Maintenance Services, Software, Hardware, Laboratory Equipment and Services.

With 10 years eAuction/eSourcing daily hands-on experience in the various eAuction/eSourcing related topics we will fully support you to take advantage of this tool and process.

We would be happy to talk with you to find ways we might be able to help you with your eAuction/eSourcing issues and goals.

Corporate Responsibility

We apply our best practice tools and techniques in the implementation of an integrated Supplier Responsibility for our customers. Every customer faces unique financial and social challenges. We tailor our approach to meet your individual needs. Our tools and techniques:

What is the influence of your suppliers (economic, environmental, governance and social issues) for your reputation and business success?

What is important to your stakeholders?We identify products, services, and business lines with greatest potential for a sustainable business growth on the supply-and buy-side.

We support you in your reporting and communications on the areas that are of greatest interest and concern of your stakeholders.

We are coaching you building your sustainability strategy around the most significant and relevant issues for your business, maximizing the impact of your efforts.

We support your company/organisation identifying significant issues, prioritize sustainability risks and opportunities to ensure that your organisation resources are focused strategically.

We help your company/organisation tailor its sustainability program, reporting, and stakeholder engagement activities around the issues that are most ‘material’ to your business and sector.

We would be happy to talk with you to find ways we might be able to help you to protect your reputation and business success.

You can contact us at info@biochemsoft.com or info@sourcingtransparency.com or
call ++41 61 4039006.

Build a credible commitment to sustainable supplier responsibility and take long-term stractegic action with our supplier responsibiliy process SRP.

Our customers are shiftng the focus on their supplier responsibility actions, from sporadic actions and reputation management to a sustainable, transparent supplier responsibility process SRP.When it comes to action on supplier responsibility, we break down together with our customers the activities into the following 5 steps.

SRP Step 1 / Supplier Responsibility Process initation
Team building / Define Stakeholder / Stakeholder involvement / Project
Management / Kick-Off / Communication management

SRP Step 2 / Supplier Situation Analysis
Collect Stakeholder Requirements / Collect Stakeholder Data / Analyse Data / Validate Opportunities with involved stakeholders

SRP Step 3 / Supplier Responsibility Strategy creation and alignment
Generate Strategic Supplier Analysis / Workout options with involved stakeholders / Generate Supplier Responsibility Plan / Strategy Approval

SRP Step 4 / Supplier Responsibility Strategy Implementation
Workout supplier responsibility implementation plan / Training Coaching supply- and buy-side / On-site change management / On-site supplier monitoring

SRP Step 5 / Continous Review and Improvement
On-going sustainable supplier management / remote Supplier Monitoring / Recording / Collaboration / live supplier transparency / How it works

A fast, sustainable and cost effective way of managing compliance “on- site” at the supplier production organisation.

At a time when most organisations are facing pressure on margins, reputation, internal costs and headcount, Sourcing/Procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility departments struggle to provide sufficient resource to manage all projects/categories of spend and contracts effectively.Let us support you to face this challenge with our On-site Supplier Monitoring OSM Services.

Coordinating with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Procurement, Sourcing, Risk, Legal, CSR, Marketing)

Managing the team infrastructure, process and tools for the on-site Supplier Monitoring

On-site Supplier labor compliance assessments service

On-site Supplier „on-boarding“ service

On-site Supplier training service

On-site Supplier pre-qualificiation service

Managing the on-site continuous improvement

On-site Coordination with your QA/QC, Procurement, Sourcing, Risk, Legal, CSR, Marketing teams.

On-going Supplier Monitoring with a dedicted stakeholder team! On-going risk management with a credible commitment to supplier responsibility.

At a time when most organisations are facing pressure on margins, reputation, internal costs and headcount, Sourcing/Procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility departments struggle to provide sufficient resource to manage all projects/categories of spend and contracts effectively.Let us support you to face this challenge with our Supplier Monitoring Center SMC.

We would be happy to talk with you to find ways we might be able to help you to protect your reputation and business success with the supplier monitoring center SMC

You can contact us at info@biochemsoft.com or info@sourcingtransparency.com or
call ++41 61 4039006.

Our executive and management coaching is an ideal way to bring positive potential into the workplace, department and organisation/company on the supply- and the buy-side!

We have recognized that the workplace (on the supply- and the buy-side!) has a strong influence ona person’s mental health, and efforts to make the work environment more humance can have a healthy impact on large numbers of people, as well as on the bottom line of the departments/organisations/companies.We provide mainly the following coaching:

  • Executive Coaching on the buy-side
  • Executive Coaching on the supply-side
  • Training, Development and Coaching for Corporate Procurement Officer
  • Training, Development and Coaching for Purchasing / Sourcing Manager
  • Training, Development and Coaching for Category Manager
  • Training, Development and Coaching for your local and global suppliers

We use of a combination of observation, questioning, listening and feedback to create a unique conversation rich in insight and learning.

We create new ways to resolve sourcing/procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Social Management issues, produce better results and generally achieve our customer goals more easily.

Your benefits from our sourcing/procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Social Management coaching includes improved sense of direction and focus, and increased resourcefulness/resilience, e.g. ability to handle change.Our coaching usually begins with an assessment.

We would be happy to talk with you to find ways we might be able to help you with your various issues and goals.

The Executive Coaching is strictly confidential.

Communication

Reporting and communication

  • Sourcing/procurement/corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and communication
  • Social management reporting and communication
  • Supply chain stakeholder communication
  • Supply chain stakeholder engagement process reporting and communication

We assist and advise you in your communications and reporting strategy that effectively supports and enhances your sustainable sourcing/procurement/CSR efforts.

Reports and other communication elements

We create your regular reports and other communication elements that provides for your stakeholders a balanced view of your sustainable sourcing/procurement/CSR performance.

Continuous stakeholder engagement process

We design/develop a continuous stakeholder engagement processes for increasing transparency and improving communications about your sustainable sourcing/procurement/CSR efforts.

Case studies, key performance indicator (KPIs) and metrics

We develop and design case studies, key performance indicator (KPIs) and metrics, that effectively communicate your progress toward (your changed) business objectives.

Our team helps you to protect, stabilise, re-build or enhance your brand image by building credibility in the marketplace and the stakeholders.

We would be happy to talk with you to find ways we might be able to help you with your reporting and communication issues and goals.

You can contact us at info@biochemsoft.com or call ++41 61 4039006.

Rapid Response Team

The RRT is a designated team of Sourcing, Corporate Responsibility and Communication experts to respond in very short time frames to emergencies in the Supply Chain.

Economic, Environmental, Governance, Compliance and Social emergencies in the supply chain.Overrun of project cost | service – material cost | governance and compliance issues | environmental issues | service – material availability | supplier discontinuance | unsatisfactory quality of the service – product | supplier take-over | scarcity | force majeure floods earthquake | supplier viability | social issues | labor problems | import export difficulties.

RRT Rapid Response Team
rrt@sourcingtransparency.com
Info 0041 61 403 90 06