“Complete on the spot coverage for products of quality and value”

With a wide network of strategic sourcing practitioners from across the globe, Stevenah is well-positioned to implement strategic sourcing for its client companies through its process that allows the realization of all opportunities, implementation and maintenance of best practices.

Stevenah’s Strategic Sourcing methodology combines a strategic perspective with rigorous analysis on a sourcing group-by sourcing group basis to deliver significant reductions in total cost.
The first step involves defining the scope of purchases and prioritizing the opportunities by accessing the database of expenditures. This will cover from direct, indirect materials to services and capital expenditures. The purchases are then strategically segmented based on market dynamics and business strategies using a supply positioning matrix which will identify non-critical to strategic items. Each sourcing group will then follow a seven-step detailed methodology which will profile your total spend and recommend procurement strategies to implement.

Stevenah’s Methodology:
• Profile Category • Supply Market Analysis • Develop Sourcing Strategy
• Supplier Selection • Negotiation and Contract • Implement Agreement • Manage Suppliers

Stevenah’s team helps companies in creating competitive advantage and distinction in the market. Our tested and proven methodology ensures the establishment of short term and long term sustainable value. We give assistance in developing compliance and performance metric systems to reduce risks in transactions.

Here are the benefits of Strategic Sourcing:

a. Emphasis on total, lifetime cost, not just purchase price Strategic sourcing takes account of the full life-cycle costs of a product, not just its purchase price.
b. Consolidated purchasing power looking right across the supplier relationship, strategic sourcing reduces costs by increasing purchasing power.
c. Tighter supplier relationships by narrowing the number of suppliers used in the business, "partnering" in JVs/alliances, and devising mutually beneficial contracts, suppliers can work together with a strategic sourcing business to achieve better standardization and improvements in cost, quality and delivery time.
d. Streamlined business processes, work and information flow the objective here is to simplify sourcing requirements by promoting common standards, work patterns and information requirements. This in turn can lead to lower inventory costs and reductions in purchasing order frequencies.
e. Improved teamwork and purchasing skills by creating cross-functional teams that can include suppliers, businesses can overcome organizational barriers, inspire collaboration and promote innovation. Better informed purchasing skills result from sharing information about products, markets and respective needs to meet wider organizational objectives.

“Efficient, and cost effective delivery of all your procurement needs”

Fact Based Sourcing Decisions

The success of a complete sourcing cycle depends heavily on the resources spent on research and analysis of the industry regulations and performance coupled with technology issues and costs. These factors are the main drivers in conducting an effective sourcing process. Foresight of both risks and opportunities of key suppliers are vital but will require great time and effort.
Stevenah’s Supply Market Intelligence (SMI) can do this for you. The formula is a team of procurement and industry experts. Our team can effectively provide you with the much needed resources to gather necessary facts in making the best supply market decisions. You can focus on your core deliverables and let us do the work of acquiring industry knowledge, reducing risk, and speeding up the sourcing cycle.

Key Benefits

• Resource to generate essential and efficient supply market information • Risk analysis on the supply market • Identify market areas for improvement and enhancement • Recognize and attend to decisive supplier issues • Grasp the external risks at local and global levels • Application of tried and tested analysis tools (SWOT, Porter’s, PEST)

Quality Information results in Profitable Decisions

Stevenah is committed in delivering fast reliable information to our customers. We follow a methodology in which we gather, consolidate, enhance and validate data from our wide sources. We do these regularly to enable our customers in making the most confident and profitable decisions.

Sourcing the Right Sourcing Information

Stevenah’s Supply Market Information (SMI) is updated regularly and is augmented by gathering vital information from several sources. These sources are as follows:
• Industry Profiling • Financial Data • Public Records and Government Registries
• Web Sources and Directories • News and other Medias

Enabling Fact Based Decisions

You no longer need to invest time and resources in acquiring critical information to build up your sourcing strategy. Stevenah’s Supply Market Intelligence (SMI) can provide you with the answers to the important industry questions and more.
• Who are the players and how are they organized? • Is it a buyer’s market or seller’s market? • What is the competitive landscape? • What are the cost drivers in this industry? • What is the level of innovation and technology? • What is the total market capacity and level of utilization? • What are the seasonal trends? • What is the level of globalization? • How is the regulatory environment? • What are the industry’s best practices?

“Making sure that your business gets the most from your investment”

The procurement services we provide are as diverse as the countries in which we work. Stevenah enhances and sustains project success through a systematic approach with a focus on competence assurance. We ensure a comprehensive training process that remains focused on the procurement needs of the organizations. The process includes:
1. Careful assessments and attention to determining training goals.
2. Designing and building methods and materials that are directly aligned to achieve the goals
3. Designing and building methods and materials that are directly aligned (and often pre-tested) to achieve training goals.
4. Implementing training.
5. Careful evaluation to ensure that training is carried out effectively and training goals were reached why train Procurement Professionals.
Stevenah’s training programs intend to challenge procurement professionals to review their work and give insights and knowledge that they can immediately draw upon to deliver greater value to the organization. The training programs are aimed at experienced Buyers and high-level Procurement Professionals who are experienced and have been in role for a few years but who perhaps have not had formal Procurement training recently or who seek to sharpen their skills.

Achieve your Procurement goals

Reducing costs in the acquisition of goods and services allow you to maximize your profit. Talking about reduction is easy – achieving reduction requires effective training programs and strategies for your personnel. In today’s fast-paced environment, improvements and advances in procurement and supply chain management can easily outstrip the knowledge and abilities of your people.
Stevenah has a team of qualified procurement and supply chain management experts available to facilitate these training programs. We are highly flexible in terms of meeting your varying procurement needs and objectives. We can conduct in-house trainings or to any location at your convenience.

Achievement at each phase of training development

As a full-service provider, we work with you to develop your procurement practices, from spend analysis to procurement consulting; our highly effective training programs are designed for developing procurement processes that would fit to your company in achieving savings from purchasing expenditure. We link training and performance objectives with long-term business results. The training programs we provide are designed to deliver the twin objectives of competitive advantage and reduced supply chain risk.

“Managing your complete operations”

Over the past couple of years, it has become clear that many customers have come to depend on vendors and consultants for the smooth running of their Procurement functions. In response to these demands, Stevenah Limited established an outsourcing division with a single objective – to ease the burden of procurement and leave customers free to concentrate on their core business activities. This we do by providing full-time technical staff to operate on-site and provide the highest levels on service and support each day.

Stevenah Limited has predicted that the outsourcing business will be tremendously successful and will be the highest growth sector in the Stevenah range of services. It will provide professionals that will support and complement the IT infrastructure of the Nigerian leading companies. Stevenah Limited now employs highly skilled technical staff and ensures that they are the most highly trained IT experts in their field.

Service Where and When You Need It

Stevenah outsource staff can be stations on-site, to provide the quick response required for business critical systems. Whether you operate from 9-5 or provide full 24 by 7 services, Stevenah Limited can guarantee support effectively.

Highly Skilled Staff

Staffs are fully trained by Stevenah Limited. They are trained continuously and accredited by all key vendors, including Winrok and Complus. Each of the trained staff has full access to the considerable support resources of Stevenah Limited and its partners.

Fully Flexible Service

Our staff and services are outsourced to customers on fully flexible short or long-term agreements. Service is available at any level, up to 52 weeks a year, 24 hours a day.