(Solution) CIPS PSE Analysis of Sourcing Approaches

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2.0 Analysis of Sourcing Approaches

2.1 Multiple Sourcing

This can be defined as a strategy involved in an organisation prioritising on sourcing of goods and service from wide range of vendors (CIPS, 2023). Multiple suppliers are engaged for one or same products/services. Considering Design Building spend category, multiple sourcing is used.  In line with Commercial Team, the amount of spend in this category is SAR350 Million with the budget being annually. The sub-categories of the spend informing need for multiple sourcing is illustrated in the following;

Table 1:Design Building Sub-Categories

Source: Summarised from ROSHN internal documents

To summarise table 1 content, it is clear that the different spend categories in design building is categorised into different areas. In the identified areas, multiple suppliers can be engaged with budgets being varying. The importance of involving the multiple suppliers is for gaining value for money outcomes and achieve standard specifications (Yoon et al., 2020). Apart from the ISO 9001 certification, design building must equally meet the requirements of the municipalities in KSA mandated in designing, spearheading construction process, demolitions and assets alterations. An example of a recent project by ROSHN is the construction of 450,000 square meters project in Southwest Riyad. In design building, the involvement of the multiple sourcing was informed by the following factors;

Table 2:Multiple suppliers in a ROSHN Project

Source: ROSHN Internal documents

In the ROSHN stadium construction project, the multiple suppliers would be the most appropriate in Design Building category.  Part of the supplier list framework agreements by the vendor management teams in ROSHN, it detail on evaluation criteria used, life costing, cost-benefit analysis, risks analysis and managing contracts (CIPS, 2023a). The different suppliers are therefore identified. There is nevertheless a need for providing PS&M with opportunities for capacity development for understanding their roles in multiple sourcing. This is since early in 2021, ROSHN was fined by Federal Government of KSA for cancelling a contract after PS&M wrongfully identified the quality expectation as being below standards set.

The advantage of multiple sourcing include existence of multiple suppliers hence a broad choice. For instance, in 2019, ROSHN was engaged in construction of King Salman Park (Saudi Vision 2030, 2024). The outcome of this was engaging different suppliers mandated with ensuring availability of cultural events area (20%), artistic and recreational activities (15%) and relaxing environment (65%). As a result, many suppliers were involved hence increased quality of the project final results as set. Also, the organisation was able to leverage on competitive advantage, hence getting good offer.

The disadvantages include lacking good technologies hence failing in managing documentation and information for multiple sourcing. This can be improved in ROSHN by increasingly investing in technologies for sourcing process. Also, multiple sourcing is time intensive to identify all the suppliers and narrow down to some. In ROSHN, past projects including Sports Boulevard, Green Riyadh and Riyadh Art averaged at 60days in entire process of identifying the multiple suppliers.

The available opportunity for engaging multiple sourcing is informed by need to diversify existing suppliers both locally and internationally (Sim & Kim, 2021). This is the case in ROSHN having based their operations in North and SouthEast of KSA, they are in a position of attracting highly qualified suppliers in the region and beyond hence successful operations.

2.2 Single Sourcing

This is defined as a strategy where a specific supplier is opted for by the buyer even when there exist other potential suppliers (CIPS, 2024a). For example, in ROSHN, in a project such as Qiddiya Entertainment City, a local organisation which is El-Seif Engineering Contracting was sourced for the completion of the project, The rationale of selection of the local firm include the following;

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