Strategic Sourcing and Footprint Analysis
Enabling Predictable and Profitable Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Sourcing Decisions
Specifically designed to support the identification of risks and opportunities in both current partners and potential locations, our strategic sourcing solution provides retailers and manufacturers with a custom index that aggregates data and risk scores specific to your exposures.
The breadth and variety of our proprietary datasets and analysis will enable sourcing professionals to evaluate the regional risks and economic landscapes within their strategic sourcing plan, including:
- Understand the stability and reliability of your current strategic sourcing partner countries
What are the odds of disruption? What are the greatest areas of risk? How are risks evolving over time? - Discover new strategic sourcing partner countries
Where do economic, demographic, and risk conditions align? What origin markets already support a product or segment? What origin markets produce adjacent products or segments? - Set diversification rules around your sourcing strategy
Is your current strategy resilient to local, regional, and global events? Are there hidden or underlying risks that exist across your current strategy that weaken your diversification?
Sample Deliverables
- Proprietary index framework to compare and contrast countries
- Access to underlying sub-index and driver data
- Ability to customize indices and rankings
- Interactive client portal
Methodology Highlights
There are three levels of insight:
- Index – A single score for each country, so that countries can be easily ranked against one another and examined over time.
- Sub-Index – Thematic sub-scores for each country that provide additional detail (Demographics; Economic Performance; Employment and Labor Cost; Price, Inflation, and Resource Costs; Risk; Supply/Market Conditions)
- Concepts – The raw data insights from across the multiple services that S&P Global has introduced to the analysis.
Inputs are gathered from across S&P Global. Individual series (which we call “Concepts”) are tagged as good or bad (are increases or decreases in this concept considered a “good” for the purposes of sourcing decisions). Each Concept is then mapped to thematic groups (called Sub-Indices) with the requirement that there is at least one Concept in each group for each country. The methodology is flexible in allowing for the mapping of any number of Concepts to each Sub-Index (so long as it is >0). Each Concept is also rescaled so that we can look across levels, changes, indices, and diffusion indices in this holistic approach.
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