(Solution) CIPS Advanced Practitioner Award APGCE
In this second assignment in Advanced Practitioner Award, a business report which evaluate global commercial strategy has been developed. This evaluation focuses on Hertfordshire and West Essex (H&WE) NHS organisation. The rationale of this evaluation is informed by the fact that an organisation strategy guides an organisation success in achieving a competitive advantage and dominating their market of operations. The areas of focus in this report include relationship of strategy and corporate, business and functional structures, methods used to analyse supply chain, managing resources for supporting development and implementation of strategy and how costs and finance could impact on supply chain. Through the application of different CIPS Models and techniques (Mendelow Matrix, PESTLE Generic Analysis tool, and risks register), various findings were obtained. These include support of existence of a direct correlation of strategy, corporate, functional structures and business practice. In analysis of supply chain, predictive and descriptive approaches which are quantitative and qualitative identified as relevant for the evaluation. Also, by ensuring all relevant stakeholders are engaged in the process, successful costs management and supply chain analysis identified. Hence, these findings indicate that by Hertfordshire and West Essex (H&WE) NHS operating a global corporate strategy, they would lower their costs overruns, profits acquired and dominate their industry. These findings are aligned with the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) influencing contract management process and supply chain.
Finally, from the findings and conclusions in this report, various limitations have been identified which can be managed through the following recommendations;
- Hertfordshire and West Essex (H&WE) NHS need to prioritise on investing on technologies for improving analysis of the relationships and corporate strategy achievement
- In supply chain analysis, open book pricing also characterised with flexibility influencing scope of collaboration and suppliers partnering hence an improved practice
- Engage Procurement and Supply Chain Management (PS&M) successfully since they are engaged to predict and satisfy customers’ needs
- Consistently updating their supply chain networks informed by different risks
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Table of Contents
1.1 Hertfordshire and West Essex (H&WE) NHS Organisation Background. 3
2.0 Relationship of strategy, corporate, business and functional structures. 4
2.1 HWE Organisation Structure. 5
2.3 Structure Strengths and Weaknesses. 9
3.0 Supply Chain Analysis Methods. 10
4.0 Resources Management in Supporting; Development & Strategy Implementation. 16
4.1 Analysis of Stakeholders in Corporate Strategy. 18
4.2 Analysis of External Factors which Impact Strategic Aims. 21
5.0 Costs and Financial Implications on Supply Chains. 22
6.0 Conclusion and Recommendations. 23
Figure 1:Summary of the HWE Trusts. 5
Figure 2:Components of strategy and relationships. 6
Figure 3:Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS NHS Procurement Services (HWE) governance structure 7
Figure 4:Red Ocean Versus Blue Ocean Strategy. 9
Figure 5:A summary of strategies of supply chain analysis. 12
Figure 6:HWE Descriptive Analysis of organisation supply. 13
Figure 7:Descriptive Analysis Summary. 14
Figure 8:A summary of CIPS Resilience Assessment Model Components. 15
Figure 9:Supply Chain aligned with corporate objectives. 17
Figure 10:Competitive advantage and sources. 18
Figure 11:MIS System Application.. 19
Figure 12: A summary of HWE Stakeholders. 20
Figure 13:Summary of Mendelow Stakeholders Analysis. 21
Figure 14:Costs Management by PS&M Summary. 23
Figure 15:Volatility factors in market levels. 24
Table 1:HWE organisation Hierarchical Structure SWOT Analysis. 10
Table 2:A summary of Risk Register. 15
1.0 Introduction
A commercial strategy is defined in CIPS (2023) as ‘comprehensive planning in outlining an organisation objectives, actions and measures to improve profitability and maximise customer value”. The relevance of commercial strategy is guiding and motivating commercial teams in a supply chain in achieving set goals while simultaneously tracking progression and measuring success scope. Further, through a global commercial strategy, organisations are able to harness effective risks management, capability of an entity to respond on uncertainties and capacity (CIPS, 2023a). Post COVID-19 economic downturn, there has been immense challenges affecting the global commercial strategies. To manage the challenges, there would be a need for implementing commercial agreement to align the broad strategic goal and reflecting on commercial risks and incentives in overall commercial-lifecycle (Abdallah & Al-Ghwayeen, 2020). In line with this introduction, this report focus on evaluation of the global commercial strategy in Hertfordshire and West Essex (H&WE) NHS organisation. The areas of focus include evaluation of strategy and relationships, analysis of supply chain network, resources management and implementation of supply chain metrics. This is with costs and financial implications put into account with relevant recommendations provided.
1.1 Hertfordshire and West Essex (H&WE) NHS Organisation Background
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS NHS Procurement Services (HWE) is a United Kingdom (UK) based organisation operating in health care sector (HWE, 2023). The organisation operates by offering strategic and transactional procurement services and on-site materials management. This is offered to their 5 NHS Trust within the Integrated Care Services (ICS) pathway which are as illustrated in figure 1;
Figure 1:Summary of the HWE Trusts
Source: Internal documents
With the evident changes in the NHS operations and broad landscape of health sector in UK and internationally, the organisation ensure that procurement plans progressively deliver more for less. This is achieved by working in collaboration with all levels with their customers and regional and national agencies for delivering optimum value for their Trusts for spend on goods and services. The role of the learner in the organisation is a tactical and transactional buyer in within the Operational category. The areas are value savings, supply chain management and sustainability. Further, for aligning contracts within the ICS, they ensure they are identifying potential areas for standardisation, improvements and increasing efficiencies. The success of HWE in their operations in NHS is an attribute of its leadership and management structure…..
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