Bluelight Consulting has a preeminent reputation for helping leaders of IT organizations manage change occurring in the IT “Sourcing Ecosystem”.

Through our independence and analytical approach, our services are focused on creating innovative sourcing strategies, leading the implementation of sourcing transactions and optimizing the existing sourcing relationships. Our consultants have helped IT organizations source more than $1.1 billion dollars of IT products and services, reduced by 5% to 15% their operating budgets while improving the time-to-market delivery of strategic initiatives.

For an IT organization, Strategic Sourcing is a systematic, comprehensive approach to managing change occurring in the IT “Sourcing Ecosystem”. In today’s world, it is more than looking at and managing what is purchased, how it is purchased, where it is purchased, and why it is purchased.

Business lines, adoption of new technologies or evolving existing technologies represent the usual sources of change of your company’s IT “Sourcing Ecosystem”.

IT organizations need to extract more value from existing sourcing relationships, adapt to new business requirements and react quickly to evolutions of technology. Also, building internal competencies and evaluate the business impact of changing the IT “Sourcing Ecosystem” are high priority initiatives on CIO’s Agendas.

Many clients choose to use Bluelight Consulting for all or only a portion of their Strategic Sourcing or procurement initiatives.

Our Strategic Sourcing Services provide clients with:

• A map and historical view of the existing “Sourcing Ecosystem” (including a financial model of existing IT products and services and their respective sourcing relationships)
• Building of client internal strategic sourcing competencies
• Opportunity assessment and business impact analysis of sourcing initiatives
• Understanding of all cost drivers for total cost of ownership
• Market maturity analysis and competitive landscape
• Recommended strategic sourcing strategies optimizing the expected business value
• Development and management of sourcing approaches (e.g. RFIs, RFPs, evaluation criteria, due diligence, evaluation)
• Creation of negotiation strategy
• Contract creation or renewal negotiation leadership
• Contract implementation support
• Contract management and continuous improvement monitoring of Service level Agreements (SLAs) and Business Level Agreements (BLAs)
• Optimization of existing sourcing relationships

To better serve our clients, Bluelight Consulting has established strong partnerships with experts from leading Canadian law firms.

Contact us about your strategic sourcing improvement efforts