Sourcing advisory, which services are out there, part 1?
Sourcing advisory has come a long way and there are several well established (boutique) players which providing a broad scale of services. There are basically three types of advisory firms: Independent one-stop-shop . Firms like KPMG, PWC and Deloitte have a broad spectrum of skills and knowledge, including people which focus on sourcing advisory, tax and SAS 70 assurance. Independent niche players. Firms like Equaterra, TPI, Quint Wellington Redwood, Everest Group, Gartner and many more focus on helping clients with the design & implementation of a shared service centre or finding a suitable vendor to outsource certain activities to. Other nice players focus on helping clients to draft an adequate legal contract, deal with specific HR topics, benchmarking or optiming the tax structure of the deal. Supplier-dependent niche players . Suppliers themselves have sometimes (small) departments which also provide advisory services in the area of outsourcing (e.g. setting up a sourcing go...