Professional services
Six functions. One face.
Sourcing, contracts, risk, supplier performance, transactions and spend each have their own team, their own system and their own view of how things are going. Nobody disagrees about the facts — they simply never see them together. Six sub-dials, one master, and the answer to "how is procurement doing?" stops being an exercise in collation.
Nobody assembles this. It is assembled by being looked at.
What the master dial holds
Six stages, one per sub-dial, and twenty-four checkpoints beneath them. The master holds no evidence of its own — each arc is the state of the dial underneath it.
Dials created with partners start with a basic dial, and can then have additional sections (the outer ring) and segments (the inner slices) added. There are many other benefits and features we can share with potential partners and clients.
- Heads of procurement holding six functions at once
- Category and contract managers who own one strand each
- Risk and audit teams who need the evidence, not the summary
- Complete
Sourcing pipeline
Requirements, market analysis, RFP and selection complete
- Complete
Contract management
Drafting, execution, renewals and amendments current
- Overdue
Risk & compliance
Due diligence, risk assessment, audit and screening in date
- In progress
Vendor performance
Reviews held, issues resolved, incentives applied
- Complete
Operational excellence
PO approval, catalogue and invoice reconciliation clean
- In progress
Spend intelligence
Savings, diversity, tail spend and internal reporting filed
The six dials it is made of
Each sub-dial is run by the team that owns that function, on its own cadence. The master face changes when they do — nobody sends a status update, and nobody compiles a monthly pack to find out that screening slipped.
Sourcing & pipeline
From a requirement being raised to a supplier being chosen, with the market work that justified the choice attached.
4 stages · 12 checkpoints
Contract lifecycle
The contract from first draft to renewal, so nothing auto-renews because a date passed unnoticed.
4 stages · 12 checkpoints
Third-party risk & compliance
The strand where a gap is a regulatory problem rather than an inconvenience — and the one this month is red.
4 stages · 12 checkpoints
Supplier relationship
What happens after the contract is signed, which is where most of the value and most of the drift lives.
4 stages · 12 checkpoints
Transactional operations
Purchase to pay. High volume, low drama, and immediately visible when it stops working.
4 stages · 12 checkpoints
Spend analytics
The reporting the rest of the business asks for, built from what the other five dials already hold.
4 stages · 12 checkpoints
Tell us how your function is split.
Six is what one operation needed; yours might be four or nine. Book a call and we will map your strands onto dials that roll into one — pick a time that suits you and it goes straight in our diary.