Functional Excellence
Next Generation Procurement
Empowering procurement to lead the way in strategic value.
Enhance Speed, Accuracy & Agility Through Transformation
Handling the complexities of global market shifts is a demanding task felt acutely throughout the supply chain. Next Generation Procurement is the key to unlocking faster, more accurate decisions that drive business outcomes across organizations.
An effectively executed digital procurement strategy increases flexibility and adaptability while unlocking new value streams. By improving response time to price fluctuations or increasing the efficiency of the workforce, Next Gen Procurement has the potential to make a dramatic impact.
Allen Yu, Chief Procurement Officer
Services and Solutions across the Value Chain
We look at each part of Procurement as it relates to the value chain, identifying high-impact, cross-functional use cases and applying intelligent tech and insights. When interconnected, these digital solutions unlock continuous value.
Category Strategy
Create actionable insights to guide procurement strategy and execution.
Category Management
Improve supplier performance, mitigate risks and optimize cash flow.
Risk Management Center
Anticipate risks, analyze data and receive proactive alerts.
Spend Analytics
Intelligent tools that address spend KPIs, helping optimize and automate spend management.
Market Intelligence
Streamline real-time market data to capture and act on insights.
Margin Optimization
Connect procurement and sales to optimize margin within their workflow.
Collaboration & Knowledge Exchange
Align cross-functionally and capitalize on learnings.
Intelligent Procurement Toolkit
Nerve Center
Powered by AI, a Nerve Center optimizes the synergy of data, applied intelligence, digital technologies and talent to help transform operational workflows. Nerve Centers unearth previously hidden opportunities and risks and simultaneously unlock new sources of value and growth.
Orchestrate work allocation
and collaboration
Sense upcoming shocks with real-time, predictive visibility
Improve the quality and speed of decisions that drive business value
Center of Competency
A Center of Competency fuels your next gen operating model by offering a focused and highly efficient team to drive on-going digital enhancements. Our experts combine business knowledge with technical acumen to run operations at speed, freeing your teams for higher value work.
Agility & Expertise
Scale & Efficiency
Continuous Innovation
Rightsource
eBook
Empowering Procurement
to Lead the Way
View our complete procurement eBook to learn how a partnership with Aligned Automation can create next gen operations for your business.
Shaping an Evolved and Intelligent
Operating Model
Foundational
Deploy unique digital services and solutions to drive efficiency and cost savings within existing functional silos.
Advanced
Identify the most promising use cases and interconnect existing solutions and services to achieve a deeper level of intelligence and collaboration.
Intelligent
Achieve a new ability to sense high-impact threats and opportunities across the value chain earlier by completing the mosaic of integrated solutions and services called the Nerve Center.
CLIENT SUCCESS
LyondellBasell’s Journey to Next Generation Procurement
LyondellBasell has a history of consistently distinguishing themselves in a consolidated petrochemical manufacturing industry by embracing new strategies and sources of value that have shaped the industry as it is known today. Their next frontier? Building a Next Generation Procurement organization that not only procures better but also shapes outcomes and benefits that reach value beyond traditional procurement.
Read the full story in our Insight Paper at the link below.
