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Strategic Sourcing for Procurement Excellence

No single supplier should be able to stop your operations.

This webinar turns strategic sourcing into two formulas you can remember and use. Ten factors lay the groundwork for every sourcing decision. Fourteen more help you remove criticality, so no supplier, part or decision can put the business at risk.

Date: 9 October 2026Time: 7:00 PM India time (IST)Language: EnglishFormat: Online
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Why it matters

A sourcing strategy only helps once it leaves the page.

Buying is the routine part of procurement. Strategic sourcing is harder. It means managing procurement risk from end to end, before a late shipment or a failed vendor turns into a stopped line.

When sourcing is done well, three things hold at the same time: operations keep running, costs stay under control, and your vendor base is one you can actually rely on.

This session gives you a clear structure for getting there, and a way to put it into practice instead of filing it away.

The whole practice, in two formulas

Short enough to remember after the call, specific enough to use on your next sourcing decision.

Why formulas? Sourcing advice usually arrives as a long list of good intentions. A formula gives you a fixed set of checks you can run again and again, and explain to your team in a few minutes.

Formula one: 10 factors — the groundwork

  • Ten factors that every sound sourcing decision rests on
  • The fundamentals: when one is missing, the decisions built on top of it are weaker than they look

Formula two: 14 factors — removing criticality

  • Fourteen practical, ready-to-apply factors for taking criticality out of your operations
  • No single supplier, part or decision should be able to put the business at risk

How the session runs

One structured walk-through, from what strategic sourcing covers to using both formulas on real decisions.

01

Beyond routine buying

  • What strategic sourcing covers, and why it is a risk discipline before it is a purchasing one.
02

Formula one: ten factors

  • The fundamentals that sound sourcing decisions rest on, taken one at a time.
03

Formula two: fourteen factors

  • Practical ways to remove criticality, so that no supplier, part or decision becomes a single point of failure.
04

From paper to practice

  • How to apply both formulas to the sourcing decisions already on your desk.

Who should attend

Anyone who chooses suppliers, depends on them, or answers for them when something goes wrong.

Procurement and sourcing managersYou own supplier selection and want a structure you can defend in front of leadership.
Category managers and buyersYou make sourcing calls every week and want a consistent set of checks behind each one.
Supply chain and operations leadsWhen a supplier fails, the problem lands with you first. This is about seeing it earlier.
Finance and business headsYou approve the spend and carry the cost when a vendor lets the business down.

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Questions before you register

Friday, 9 October 2026 at 7:00 PM India time (IST).

Two formulas. The first is ten factors that lay the groundwork for sound sourcing decisions. The second is fourteen practical factors for removing criticality, so that no single supplier, part or decision can put the business at risk.

No. The formulas are useful if you lead a procurement function, and just as useful if sourcing is one part of a wider operations, supply chain or finance role.

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