Benchmarking Procurement Performance

Benchmarking Procurement Performance
Our benchmarking database holds information on more than 50 organisations. More than 30 are in the public sector with the rest in the private sector. The public sector organisations are a range of local authorities, police forces and Central Government departments. From the private sector we have organisations in the manufacturing, food, finance and construction sectors.

Our benchmarking approach uses 22 indicators, which are grouped into 7 key areas. The 7 key areas are:

• The role of Procurement as perceived by the rest of the organisation
• Procurement strategy and vision
• Procurement procedures and working practices
• Performance & risk management
• Sourcing & supplier management
• Systems support
• Structure & resource level

We use a bar chart to show the benchmarking results. This gives clients’ a clear picture of how we believe they are performing relative to other similar organisations.