GLS Contracting Function Efficiency Report™ (Delivered)

GLS Contracting Function Efficiency Report™ (Delivered) is a fully managed bespoke reporting solution that objectively, fairly and honestly assesses the current performance levels of your contracting function and provides practical recommendations on how to achieve powerful performance improvements. 

Transforming the performance of your contracting function team requires understanding your current position. This report provides a data-based report on how efficiently you are your your contracting function is performing and benchmarks it against best practice. 

With a particular focus on common potential inefficiency scenarios, in light of benchmark data, we are able to identify practical productivity optimisation strategies – with an emphasis on what is practical and what is known to work. 

Our comprehensive diagnostic modules are deployed to your internal stakeholders via desktop surveys that generate thousands of data points – along with selective 1-hour long key stakeholder interviews. 

The performance criteria against which our report is prepared is that of a world class “performance optimised” contracting support function. As result the report provides provide you with:

• a powerful reference model of what your fully optimised contracting function would look like;
• a detailed view of the critical resources that enable and drive contracting function optimisation;
• an assessment of the presence and/or current performance of your resources;
• an assessment of the productivity consequences of your current contracting landscape;
• best practice markers for key function features and basic recommendations on performance initiatives; and
• clearly identified and logical intervention/optimisation scenarios to drive function productivity.

This solution provides you the authority of an expert third party voice on the current performance levels and capabilities of your contracting function in an objective and transparent manner. This makes it easier for you internally to justify the resources your team needs. 

Critically, there are no ‘negative’ findings – just blueprint recommendations for your team to achieve better, more, faster and cheaper contracting function. operations. Our optimisation recommendations are intentionally pragmatic and backed by performance data that speak to productivity strategies that actually work. 

This solution helps prepare you to pro-actively face the future on your own terms and increase the strategic relevance of your team. If you are serious about contract function transformation, this is an essential first step initiative. 

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