Industrial procurement services offered by SpendEdge can help you strategically manage energy costs and improve your sourcing expenditures forecasting.
Industrial and Manufacturing Industry Overview
Procurement professionals in the industrial and manufacturing sector are faced with the need to forecast sourcing expenditures for the long-term, in addition to sourcing commodities and raw material ingredients from several different suppliers across the world. As energy costs and prices in manufacturing procurement grow increasingly volatile, it becomes more challenging to forecast the procurement budget for any commodity. SpendEdge brings together a team of experienced category and commodity experts who combine industrial expertise with advanced tools in procurement in manufacturing industry and procurement intelligence. With this team, we help businesses identify opportunities to reduce their supplier management costs and make better purchasing decisions.
Industrial Equipment
With several end-user segments and the availability of suppliers across various geographies, industrial equipment manufacturers have a number of opportunities to increase their profit margins and achieve improved cost savings through optimized procurement in manufacturing industry. However, with industries increasingly adopting the trend to automate their processes and sourcing intelligence, procurement professionals in the manufacturing industry are frequently faced with purchase requests for new equipment to meet consumer demand and differentiate products from competition. Identifying key pricing elements and the pricing model followed by various suppliers, SpendEdge’s procurement market intelligence experts offer pricing & procurement market intelligence solutions that will help business manage procurement risks across various business units.
Construction and Building
Though players in the construction and building industrial sector focus on forming strategic partnerships with suppliers, these relationships often remain cost-driven. Helping sourcing specialists make better procurement decisions, we at SpendEdge provide real-time supplier information and procurement market intelligence solutions that cover aspects such as a suppliers’ financial announcements, new products or services launched by suppliers, the impact of M&As and JVs announced by suppliers, new clients they acquire, and their pricing models. This provides opportunities to effectively manage the supply chain, procurement in manufacturing industry, and the associated risks through sourcing intelligence to help buyers make improved procurement decisions in the manufacturing industry.
Automation and Controls
With innovative technologies easing industrial processes, vendors in the automation and controls manufacturing industry have the constant need to adopt advanced technologies to meet consumer demand. Identifying efficient suppliers is a major challenge for procurement decision makers in the manufacturing industry. With commodity prices becoming increasingly volatile, without the right sourcing intelligence it becomes increasingly difficult to pick buyers without a standardized cost-model analysis. Developing cost scenarios based on alternate sourcing locations and price fluctuations and even suggesting alternate production processes, SpendEdge’s procurement market intelligence solutions help clients develop robust strategies and procure the right products and services through accurate procurement market intelligence insights.
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COVID-19 Impact on the Industrial and Manufacturing Industry
The global industrial and manufacturing industry is bearing the direct brunt of economic uncertainties, marked by stressed supply chains, massive delays in incoming and outgoing deliveries, and an increase in raw material costs. The exponential rise of COVID-19 cases will result in serious supply bottlenecks which could lead to a very weak growth scenario for industrial products.
The novel coronavirus impact is driving changes to the global economy so quickly as to put it in a state of complete uncertainty. The pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities within global supply chains irrespective of industry, even as companies continue testing the resilience of their supply chains against the coronavirus impact on the industrial and manufacturing industry.
The global industrial and manufacturing industry is facing substantial economic uncertainties, marked by stressed supply chains, massive delays in incoming and outgoing deliveries, and increases in raw material costs.
The distinct sub-segments of the industrial ecosystem will go through critical changes and disruptions in the short term because of the deepening coronavirus impact. SpendEdge presents a quick dashboard that summarizes the impact on the industrial and manufacturing industry so far and what to expect in the global industrial ecosystem for the next 2-3 months.
The next few weeks are crucial for the demand curve as the coronavirus impact on the industrial and manufacturing industry becomes more evident. The exponential rise of COVID-19 cases will result in serious supply bottlenecks, which could lead to a very weak growth scenario for industrial products.
Falling oil prices are expected to put a stop to big-ticket capex investments in the oil and gas sector, thereby impacting industrial products demand from the segment. There is a clear bottleneck with respect to the supply of industrial equipment and construction materials. Suppliers are facing acute manpower shortage and restrictions on cross-border movement, which has further enhanced supply-based bottlenecks.
Demand for healthcare infrastructure construction is increasing in Western Europe but supply of materials remains a challenge as the coronavirus impact on the industrial and manufacturing industry becomes more evident.
Uncertainties loom large and the industry will swing between extremes as the coronavirus impact makes its presence felt in the global economy. Executives around the world are examining their supply chains with a microscope to find risk elements. Companies that can proactively identify or anticipate the bottlenecks in their supply chains will be closer to finding solutions for supply chain risk mitigation.
These solutions will have to be extremely customized for the sector, location, and government responses and it is impossible to develop a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Still, there are elements which are common to any resilient risk mitigation plan. We recommend a few of these below for immediate results.
Develop relationship with vendors from countries that have a lower count of COVID-related cases or are still working in a relatively normal environment. However, buyers must also be aware of increased prices in these geographical regions due to the increase in demand for industrial items.
It is not enough to only look at production centers: industrial buyers must evaluate logistics-related risks associated with delivery of essentials and develop a procurement strategy accordingly.
For buyer organizations, it would be beneficial to create a localized procurement strategy to minimize any transportation-related bottlenecks that are caused due to the coronavirus impact. Such a step is also recommended keeping in perspective the global lockdown scenario.
Buyers need to be up to date on global developments as well as country-specific trends. Lockdown situations can change suddenly in locations that are of importance from a supply chain perspective. Buyers also need to monitor emerging success case studies and learn from them.
Global commodity and energy prices are expected to behave in a very volatile manner for some time. Companies that spend significantly on commodities and energy items as key inputs need to re-engage their suppliers and explore mechanisms to safeguard against increases in pricing. It is advisable to fix the short-term procurement price or at least keep a maximum limit on upward price movements.
Supply chain disruptions have created logjams at cargo hubs and warehouse facilities. It is expected that shipments will remain stuck at various places for an unknown duration and massive delays will occur in the entire supply chain. It is imperative that software solutions being used for supply chain management, inventory, warehousing, shipment tracking, and more are updated regularly. Complete visibility and accurate communication throughout the supply chain are important for drawing alternative plans and minimizing the loss of shipments in transit.
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Transitioning your category procurement strategy beyond cost-saving and into a strategic function of the organization.
Over recent years, there have been various industry developments that served as or caused trends in procurement. These procurement trends include technology changes, novel strategic approaches, new processes, and necessary adaptations to change. As supply chains become increasingly complex, procurement has become highly crucial and influential in the production process and continues to grow.
Technology, procurement, sourcing, and innovation have transformed industry significantly, and companies are struggling to keep pace with the new expectations, standards, and stipulations within the market. As the pharmaceutical industry continues to rapidly grow, companies must leverage sustainable, data-driven, and robust procurement strategies to overcome risks, optimize supplier performance, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. SpendEdge helps businesses develop and leverage unparalleled procurement strategies to gain and maintain a competitive edge, high profitability, increasing efficiency, and reduced costs.
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