The Procurement Strategy Advisor

Build a procurement strategy for this spend category.

The category: [DESCRIBE WHAT'S BOUGHT AND ROUGHLY HOW MUCH]
Current approach: [DESCRIBE]
Supply market: [MANY SUPPLIERS / FEW / CONCENTRATED]

Provide:
1. Where this category sits on a strategic/leverage/bottleneck/routine
   grid and what that implies
2. The sourcing approach that fits (competitive tender, partnership,
   consolidation)
3. Levers to reduce cost (volume, specification, terms, competition)
4. The supply risks and how to manage them
5. A negotiation and supplier-management approach for this category

Match the effort to the category — don't run a strategic partnership
process for paperclips, or a reverse auction for a critical sole-source
input.