BVP and closing the loop

BVP and closing the loop

Two things were mentioned before on this blog that will be coming together: Best Value Procurement and investing in new ideas. A few weeks ago, after reading up in some business materials involving Best Value Procurement (prestatie inkoop in goed Nederlands), I wondered on the practicalities in that new trend. Conceptually I love the thought of buying in business the way you buy average things at home, getting ready to activate huge growth in price/quality ratios. But I see difficulty in structuring the process, making it measurable, beforehand as well as in retrospect of the deal (read: while sourcing as well as in contractmanagement).

We are curious about this thing and want to get into more depth on it. How to maximize the effect of Best Value Procurement, while getting it ready to automate in a closed-loop line of thinking? Is this at all possible? Are we thinking too old-school on the whole subject? Is there already tooling available that fits perfectly? ... We are curious because these are questions that simply NEED answering before the whole trend can become a real staying force on the wider scale of procurement.

So the first step is to ask if people already have a vision on this aspect of BVP? Or are we the first to wonder? Please get onto discussion, let's all join forces to make this concept work on a wider scale for I firmly believe in the principles. But in the end, I am just a techy,, an IT nerd that simply wants it hunted down and kept in a box... lets see if we can combine the two?!

Doede van Haperen
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