A unique tool to provide spend category insight, strategy and opportunity assessment

我们已经确定了一个重大的机会，提供一个创新的采购网络应用程序，将提供支出类别的洞察力，战略和机会评估的公共和私营部门的采购团队。目前，这是手动完成的，这导致不一致和不准确。我们将拥有市场上第一个提供解决方案的工具。我们的网络工具将为组织提供严格、一致和量化的支出评估，并将：>根据时间和回报、谈判潜力和预期节省来优先考虑投标机会;>评估组织与其主要供应商之间的关系平衡，以确定依赖某些供应商的潜在风险;>制定类别管理项目计划，分配给团队成员，并安排在特定的时间框架内实现最佳的成本降低;>建议私营部门采购战略以及公共部门谈判程序，例如公开，限制，谈判或竞争性对话;>将结果与基准数据进行比较，使用游戏化来激励采购团队提高绩效。该工具将完全基于网络，并以订阅方式提供。它还将被开发成一个智能手机和平板电脑应用程序，以提高可访问性和采用率，加强这一工具的创新性，特别是在采购领域。这一独特工具的好处将使采购团队能够不断地利用更多的降低成本的机会，减少编制和管理类别管理计划所需的时间，并减少错误的采购策略被采用。我们将品牌的工具“类别Dojo”，以协调与我们现有的和快速增长的网络应用程序市场Dojo，本身是一个先前的收件人TSB赠款成功完成今年6月，这使我们能够专门为公共部门开发采购应用程序。

We have identified a major opportunity to deliver an innovative procurement web application that will provide spend category insight, strategy and opportunity assessment for public and private sector procurement teams. Currently this is done manually which leads to inconsistency and inaccuracy. We would have the first tool on the market to provide a solution.Our web-based tool will give organisations rigorous, consistent and quantifiable assessments of their spend and will:> prioritise tender opportunities against time & return, negotiation potential and expectedsavings;> assess the relationship balance between the organisation and its key suppliers to identify potential risk of dependencies on certain suppliers;> build category management project plans, assigned to team members, and scheduled to deliver the optimal cost reductions within specific time-frames;> recommend private sector procurement strategies as well as public sector negotiationprocedures, e.g. open, restricted, negotiated or competitive dialogue;> compare results against benchmark data, using gamification to incentivise betterperformance within procurement teams.The tool will be entirely web-based and offered on a subscription basis. It will also bedeveloped into a smartphone and tablet application for greater accessibility and adoption, enhancing the innovative nature of this tool, especially in the procurement field.The benefits of the unique tool will allow procurement teams to consistently address more cost reduction opportunities, reduce the time taken to compile and manage category management plans, and mitigate against the wrong procurement strategy being adopted.We shall brand the tool ‘Category Dojo’ to harmonise with our existing and rapidly growing web application Market Dojo, itself a previous recipient of a TSB grant successfully completed in June this year, which allowed us to evolve our sourcing application specifically for the public sector.