Procurement scan

Ten questions about your current process. Your report appears on this page straight away. No email address needed to read it.

Why

Your number is not the average.

The average buyer in construction spends eleven hours a week on comparison work. That average says little about you. The scan uses your own figures and shows where the exposure sits in your process: in the time, in the documentation, in the knowledge tied to one person, or in the regulation coming your way.

The scan collects nothing about your suppliers, your prices or your commercial relationships. Everything is computed in your own browser. Nothing leaves it unless you ask for a copy afterwards.

What you get back

A report, not a scoreboard.

01

An exposure score

From 0 to 100, with the reason alongside it. No number without an explanation.

02

Your annual figure

Computed on your own buyer count and hours, not on the sector average.

03

The weak points named

At most four findings, each with the source we base it on.

Ten questions, about two minutes.

1. How many people at your organisation compare suppliers?

Anyone who assembles quotes into a comparison, whether or not procurement is their job title.

2. Where does the comparison actually happen?

Not where the data is supposed to live. Where the comparing gets done.

3. How many hours a week does one buyer spend on comparison work?

Gathering quotes, checking certificates, building the comparison. Not negotiating, not deciding.

4. How long does one full supplier comparison take, start to signed off?

From the specification landing on the desk to a manager approving the choice.

5. When the choice is made, is there a documented rationale?

Something a colleague could read and follow without asking you.

6. Could you reconstruct why you picked a supplier two years ago?

Not who you picked. Why, on what criteria, against which alternatives.

7. What happens if your most experienced buyer leaves?

Twenty years of knowing which supplier actually delivers.

8. Which obligation reaches you first?

The one your organisation has to satisfy soonest.

9. Has your procurement documentation been tested in the past year?

Internal audit, external audit, or a supplier challenging an award.

10. Who decides on procurement tooling?

So we know who needs to be in the conversation.