GHTB group has vast interests mainly in the insurance, banking, building society, and financial sectors. GHTB can introduce in the company the creation of standard form contracts to create uniformity and reduce the risk associated with the current management strategies that make it miss improving its supply chain reliability and chances of reducing costs. Advantages of introducing a group purchasing activity in the company would include, leverage spending, mitigate risks, and eliminate non-value adding activities.
The marketing directors in the company can see that purchasing is valuable to their expenditure since it can help with compressing the cycle times, reduce total ownership costs, reduce total supply cost. This is attained through removal of all the non-value-adding activities and streamlining the ones that add value.
In regards to the suppliers, issues the recommendations include implementing within the SLA dispute resolution mechanisms. Creation of in charge devices so that SLA can develop with the evolving needs of the stakeholders. Disputes should be resolved ideally through negotiation and direct communication between both parties to reach a middle ground. They can retrace back to the source of the problem and identify the genuine ones. Enter into contracts that are not too binding and lastly effectively describe the KPI stipulations during the contract.
In regards to the corporate identity package, the only action will be on the purchasing change program. This will ideally aimed at helping raise the purchasing status of the company as a higher-level management function and will stress on GHBT new procurement strategy approach.