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In this report, the focus is on evaluating role of procurement supply and management (PS&M) function to achieve value for money outcomes. Part of this report also entail evaluating approaches of management of costs for the catering services.
The organisation of focus is Qatar Railways Company (QRC) in sourcing for catering services. The data used to generate the findings in this report has been sourced by use of internal documents in QRC, available research from reputable sources and suppliers analysis.
Further, various theories and models have been used from CIPS Module notes and guidance (STEEPLED, Mendelow, Kraljic and Suppliers Preferencing and more ) to generate appropriate findings.
It is evident that QRC works with many stakeholders for success in their PS&M and specifically sourcing for catering services. Further, with QRC operating in a competitive oligopolistic market environment, achieving value for money outcomes in their PS&M operations is essential.
The major findings is that the organisation uses a strategic approach in achieving value for money outcomes.
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- In summary, this assessment, has focused on evaluating the process of leading a project team for implementing a new category management.
- For achieving this, British American Tobacco (BAT) in Malaysia has been used as an organisation of interest.
- The selected category of spend is technology and particularly the procurement of high speed machines for meeting the market demand. The rationale of this is that as an international organisation, BAT organisation engages both local and international suppliers in sourcing of technology.
- Considering this high demand, there has been challenges which sustainability of their sourcing approach. Therefore, BAT has been prompted to invest in a system which is modernised for ensuring modernisation of the procurement and supply process in BAT.
- For the Procurement and Supply Management (PS&M) tasked with the responsibility of procuring the technology system tend to take part in learning and development strategies, improving the suppliers relations, increasing alternation of the suppliers relations, high-level inclusion of stakeholders and to transform technology.