Sourcing & Procurement Transformation In today’s ever-changing and complex business environment, Sourcing and Procurement organisations, inclusive of Source to Pay (S2P) functions, play an increasingly critical role in enabling operations, supporting growth and sustainability, managing risk and resilience, and reducing costs and working capital. Successful S2P functions address today’s needs and have the foresight to plan for tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities. Protiviti helps transform procurement functions from a purely transactional activity to a strategic enabler by combining deep expertise across source-to-pay leading practices, business transformation, technology/digital enablement, and industry expertise with our proven approach and methodology, advanced analytics, and our passion for delivery excellence. Our professionals help organisations understand current opportunities while looking ahead to understand what is coming next and designing the necessary capabilities for the future to maximise profitability, cost savings, process efficiency and effectiveness. We help clients address today's needs while planning for tomorrow's challenges and opportunities Our Sourcing and Procurement consulting services Pro Briefcase Sourcing & Category Management Realise cost savings opportunities and ensure value from sourcing activities through effective sourcing and category management. We help create category plans and sourcing strategies that align with business objectives and financial goals to optimise long term benefits. Pro Building office Procure to Pay Optimise your entire procurement and accounts payable cycle to maximise control and efficiency while minimising risk. Our procure to pay experts help organisations transform end-to-end processes and related systems while improving the internal stakeholder experience. Pro Document Consent Contract Lifecycle Management Streamline, automate and manage your enterprise-wide Contract Lifecycle Management process. We help our clients increase efficiency, contract compliance, and revenue while mitigating risk and reducing cycle times, administrative costs, and external spend. Pro Document Files Supplier Lifecycle Management Take an integrated approach to your supplier lifecycle management to drive efficiencies across the value chain. We assist our clients assess, design, and implement leading supplier management and third-party risk management (TPRM) programmes across the supplier lifecycle. Procurement as a Service Improve efficiency, effectiveness, and resiliency of your daily operations while managing capacity and internal costs. We blend consulting and operational expertise to deliver solutions for growing backlogs, lack of bandwidth, or skill sets within Sourcing and Procurement. Protiviti ProView ™ Assess process and control performance, improve cash and working capital management, and find opportunities for cost recovery. ProView utilises AI based analysis and visualisation to quickly identify and isolate P2P transactional improvement opportunities and root causes. Our Approach Using our proven methodology, data and analytics, and collaborative approach, our team of experts help transform sourcing and procurement departments to lead organisations in driving innovation and generating real value with bottom-line results through:Advanced, proprietary, and value focused process analyticsInsights through benchmarking and leading practices gap analysisExpertise across S2P technology and automation to drive optimisation Functional expertise to design and deliver sustainable improvementTo drive key business outcomes of:Increased stakeholder satisfaction, efficiency, agility and responsivenessValue creation through sustained cost reduction, cost recovery, compliance, and improved process performanceIncreased data integrity, visibility and reporting for decision makingProcess and transactional excellence, optimisation and automationImproved controls, risk management, and compliance through enforced policies, business rules, and security/access Procurement Operating Model Protiviti’s Procurement Operation Model can be used as a guidepost as organisations seek to transform the sourcing and procurement functions to maximise value delivered to the Organisation. Leadership Andrea Rista Andrea Rista is Director at Protiviti Italy and Protiviti Bulgaria, with focus on Business Risk Consulting, Corporate Governance and Internal Audit services.In Protiviti since 2004, he developed strong skills in internal audit, risk management, corporate governance, and ... Learn more Stan Oparanov Stan Oparanov is Director at Protiviti Milan and Protiviti Bulgaria. Stan is one of the leaders of Protiviti Bulgaria and focuses on the use of technology and innovation in management consulting, risk management, compliance and internal audit.He has strong ... Learn more Featured insights INSIGHTS PAPER Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk A shift in mindset to a strategic sourcing strategy anticipates and mitigates supply chain risk while improving resilience and responsiveness, still aiming to reduce total cost of ownership. 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