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Value Discovery and Value Foundation
Laying the Groundwork for Digital Transformation Success
The Chart phase of our SCALE methodology focuses on value discovery and value foundation, ensuring that the digital transformation aligns with organizational goals and delivers measurable value. This phase also involves pre-contracting activities, project kickoff, and foundational design and planning process.
Zycus’ Value Delivery Framework
SCALE framework to ensure implementation success
Key Features of Chart
Value Discovery (Design Phase)
Pre-contracting:
- Current State Analysis: Assessing the current maturity level of procurement processes.
- Future State Vision: Identifying gaps and defining the future state vision.
- Process Mapping: Designing a new operating model that aligns with the organization’s strategic goals.
- Role Definition: Defining roles and responsibilities within the new model.
- Key Metrics Identification: Identifying critical success factors and metrics to measure success.
- Checklist Development: Creating a checklist to ensure all success factors are addressed.
Value Foundation (Build Phase)
Kickoff
- Key Performance Indicators: Defining KPIs to measure the success of the transformation.
- Benchmarking: Establishing benchmarks for each KPI.
- Dashboard Creation: Designing a comprehensive dashboard for the Chief Procurement Officer.
- Real-Time Insights: Ensuring the dashboard provides real-time insights and analytics.
- SMART Goals: Setting Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goals.
- Alignment: Ensuring goals are aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives.
- Phased Approach: Developing a phased approach to implement the transformation.
- Glide Path: Creating a glide path to track progress and milestones.
Design
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- Tailored Channels: Designing buying channels based on the best industry and category-specific practices.
- Efficiency: Enhancing procurement efficiencies with the right balance of control on buying channels.
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- Analytical Tools: Developing analytics tools to measure value realization.
- Dashboards: Creating dashboards to track key metrics and indicators.
- Performance Tracking: Establishing indicators to track performance and progress.
- Continuous Monitoring: Continuously monitoring indicators to ensure alignment with goals.
Iterative Stages
- Customization: Initial customization of screens and fields.
- Approval Workflows: Setting up basic approval workflows.
- Master Data: Preliminary master data setup.
- Integration Setup: Initial integration with existing systems.
- User Role Setup: Defining and setting up user roles.
- Refinement: Refining customizations based on initial feedback.
- Workflow Enhancement: Enhancing approval workflows for better efficiency.
- Data Validation: Validating master data setup.
- Integration Testing: Conducting integration tests to ensure compatibility.
- Role Adjustment: Adjusting user roles based on feedback.
- Final Adjustments: Making final adjustments to screens and fields.
- Workflow Finalization: Finalizing approval workflows.
- Data Finalization: Ensuring master data setup is complete and accurate.
- Integration Completion: Completing integration setup and testing.
- Role Finalization: Finalizing user roles.
Rapid Prototyping and Feedback
Build
- Standard Templates: Developing standard templates for specific categories.
- Data Enhancement: Enhancing data quality through targeted data uplifts.
- Custom Applications: Creating custom applications tailored to specific procurement categories.
- Integration: Ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
- Comprehensive Dashboard: Building a comprehensive dashboard for the CPO.
- Advanced Analytics: Integrating advanced analytics to provide actionable insights.
- Phased Approach: Developing a phased approach to implement the transformation.
- Glide Path: Creating a glide path to track progress and milestones.
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Comprehensive Integrations:
Seamless data flow to connect
ERP, procurement, and financial
systems
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Data Security and
Compliance: Data protection
using advanced security
protocols
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Scalable and Flexible
Architecture: Future proofs
integration strategy using
adaptive scalable architecture
As organizations navigate through the complexities of modern procurement, the zycus procure-to-source system emerges as a transformative force. It integrates seamlessly, offering end-toend visibility, enhanced supplier relationships, and data-driven insights. with Zycus, businesses unlock the power to drive efficiency, mitigate risks, and achieve strategic objectives, paving the path for sustainable success in today’s dynamic marketplace.
Chris Loveland
Global Procurement Operations Leader
Belden
Tech support from all the corners
Zycus implementation ensures delivery excellence at SCALE supported by relevant tools and technologies that make the whole infrastructure risk free.
What sets Zycus’ Customer Value Delivery Solutions Apart?
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Agile Deployment: Rapid,
flexible responses to change.
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Critical Success Factors (CSF)
Focus: Ensuring alignment with key business priorities.
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Advanced Tech Stack:
Streamlining processes with
cutting-edge tools.