1. Introduction
The objective of this Business Report is to analyse the present situation and Business strategy of the company Market Dojo based in frameworks studies of the industry Competition and Business Strategy as such as five forces and Dynamic Environment Strategy. Also to propose recommendations that can contribute for the organic growth of this company. 1.1. Market Dojo Company
The company was founded in Bristol in 2010 by procurement and engineer professionals that decided to create an online service which could simplify and facilitate the buyer’s work in some responsibilities as such, as reverse auction, prospect suppliers, and proposal’s requests.
The idea was innovative in United Kingdom as there was not another service provider with the same proposal, simplifying the work of buyer to promote events like the reverse auction the form easy and interactive like the Market Dojo site. The service is provided in an online platform as SaaS (Software as Service) and the objective is not to be a complex or sophisticated, but simple and uncomplicated. The company’ s slogan is “e-Sourcing made it simple”.
Considering the strategic importance of the Procurement Department for Business and the relevance of savings and cost reduction for the market as well industry. They considered their service would be a significant tool, then the chance to reach a lot of clients.
The focus of the service is to provide the customer with a fast, interactive and easy tool that will
Procurement is the act of obtaining or buying goods and services. So it’s the process an organisation uses to buy the products or services it needs, from other organisations. So procurement department for Tesco is essential in order for them to be able to sell products and offer a service to their customers. Without the good and services it needs Tesco would not be able to operate so it’s essential the procurement team do a good job.
In this assignment I will be writing a formal report that will explain a typical procurement process, I will outline a variety of methods of supplier reimbursement and contract relationships; I will also outline the pros and cons of each contract type. As well as this, I will explain a typical supplier selection process through the use of Carters 10 C’s and a typical selection process model.
We want our clients to be able to understand the services that are being provided to them. The services that we provide should be simple and easy to understand especially to our clients and their family members. We
Procurement management is the processes to purchase or acquire the products, services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work. Project Procurement Management involves not just purchasing products, services or results, but also ensuring that those that are purchased are right for the project, meets standards and is based on project requirements. This life cycle includes tracking from order through deployment and completing with invoice reconciliation.
7. Which one of the following generic types of competitive strategy is typically the best strategy for a company to employ?
It is quite challenging to discuss about procurement management without stating the importance of its strategies. There are four main basic procurement strategies that serve different functions within a procurement management. To begin with, a “Partnership” strategy focuses mainly on constructing mutual commitment in long term relationship with suppliers. While a “Secure Supply” strategy aims to secure short and long term supply while reducing risk from suppliers. In addition, a “Category Management and E-Procurement solutions” serves as a tool to reduce logistic complexity, improve operational efficiency, and attempts to reduce the number of suppliers. Lastly, a “Competive Bidding” strategy emphasizes on obtaining the “Best Deal” for short term transactions with suppliers.(van weele) Each of these four strategies involves a unique purchasing methodology, which implies that the complexity is embedded in an individual strategic implication. Therefore, it requires different tools to accomplish the specific strategical characteristics. A business entity may need to support and execute procurement decisions with other strategic apparatus with analytical methods, including market analysis, uncertainty analysis, price forecasting, supplier relationship and along with others.(Harvard)
Goal: Provide technological features to achieve a more convenient and friendly service, suited to the customers and their needs.
Because of their background, knowledge of the billing systems and understanding of the market needs, they were well aware of the “Software As A Services (SaaS)”, its future as well as the opportunities and the obstacles. They had also envisaged the market need for an efficient billing system. Their vision was to provide an e-commerce platform that powers the service industry at a low cost
Comparing to the option of upgrading the whole procurement system, my recommendation aligns with Russell Menere (National Procurement Manager of BAL)’s idea, which is to implement short term improvements based on current procurement system in
The main idea for procurement was to minimize the total acquisition cost and overall procurement
dorsaVi presents solid real-time motion analysis device technologies, and for the first time, the device is able to accurately capture assessments up to 24 hours. This is more effective than going to an off-site facility to do fitness and biometric exams that could longer than that to produce results. dorsaVi focuses on three aspects:
The main goal of company should always be providing maximum customer service at the lowest cost possible. Nowadays company are facing many challenges regarding some areas. Let’s talk about Procurement, it begins with managing processes associated with a firm’s need to purchase goods and services required to manufacture goods/services (direct) or run the organization (indirect). The process of procurement is regarded as part of the organization because the ability to purchase certain materials will determine whether the operation will continue or not. For a business to survive in the competitive market the price of procurement should be low than the profit it makes on selling the actual product. HollyFrontier Corporation is a largest petroleum company and it operates to a global market where it has to face many competitors. Many companies are adopting value based strategy and less volume which helps them to sell their product in higher cash value. An organization spends colossal sum on discovering, creating and delivering oil and gas. In this way, acquisition capacity assumes extremely discriminating part in effective operation. Procurement management is divided into drilling, well completion, facilities, transportation, operation, office services and IT services.
Trade Dynamic System dealing with provision of solutions through developing and providing Cloud Computing based software applications to businesses / Commercial organizations including Profit and Non-profit organizations according to their requirements. Currently our target market is those companies that are dealings in Trading / Exporting and Importing business. Because in today’s competitor world many business have lapse of time to handle their lots of business transactions and day to day
In general terms, marketing is all related to the places of buying and selling of goods and services to satisfy customers’ needs. Nowadays marketing is the most important issues for success of every business marketing is the activity, set of institution, and process for creating, communicating, delivering, and
E-sourcing use the internet to make decisions regarding how and where services or products are obtained. E-marketplaces play an important role in this activity, since the price and availability of products from multiple suppliers can be checked from a single point. Another benefit for E-marketplaces in terms of product sourcing is that not only they provide detailed product information from existing suppliers, they