Global IT Consulting Industry - 2020 Procurement Market Intelligence Report - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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About IT Consulting Industry

IT consulting services are adopted by organizations to improve and manage their IT infrastructure. These services are aimed at gaining IT advisory and IT propositions to meet organizations' goals. The spend momentum of this industry will be attributed to the increase in the number of M&As across industries, especially in chemical and oil and gas. This results in the demand for advisory for systems integration to handle activities pertaining to accounting, resource planning, budgeting, and data warehousing.

Covered in this report

The report provides actionable insights to improve source-to-contract cycle performance in the Global IT Consulting Industry. It helps sourcing professionals formulate better category strategies, enhance savings, understand supplier and market challenges, and implement sourcing best practices.

The report, Global IT Consulting Industry, provides up-to-date information about industry shifts and potential risks, as well as in-depth knowledge of products and services, which can help in planning and in executing category management activities. It focuses on the cost-saving aspects of procurement and on providing insights that can lead to optimization of category spend.

Category driver

• Increase in the demand for customized application and implementation of ERP systems

Category management strategy

• Gaining strategic control over contracts with their suppliers

Procurement best practices

• Ensure participation and collaboration of cross-functional teams

Key questions answered in this report

• What are the market dynamics?
• What are the key market trends?
• What are the category growth drivers?
• What are the constraints on category growth?
• Who are the suppliers in this market?
• What are the demand-supply shifts?
• What are the major category requirements?
• What are the procurement best practices in this market?

Key Topics Covered:

PART 01: Executive Summary

PART 02: Market Insights

• Global category spend
• Category spend growth
• Spend segmentation by region
• Regional spend dynamics
• Regional influence on global spend
• Regional spend opportunity for suppliers

PART 03: Category Pricing Insights

• Pricing outlook
• Supplier cost structure
• Outlook for input costs
• Total cost of ownership analysis
• Overview of pricing models
• Comparison of pricing models
• Supply chain margins
• Cost drivers impacting pricing
• Volume drivers impacting pricing

PART 04: Cost-Saving Opportunities

• Supplier side levers
• Buyer side levers
• Quantifying cost-saving opportunities
• Quantifying cost-savings by negotiation strategies

PART 05: Best Practices

• Innovation and success stories
• Procurement excellence best practices
• Procurement best practices
• Sustainability practices

PART 06: Category Ecosystem

• Market favorability index for suppliers
• Competitiveness index for suppliers
• Buyer power
• Supplier power
• Threat of new entrants
• Threat of substitutes
• Buyer ecosystem
• Supplier ecosystem

PART 07: Category Management Strategy

• Category management objectives
• Supplier and buyer KPIs
• Outsourcing category management activities
• Risk management

PART 08: Category Management Enablers

• Procurement organization
• Category enablers

PART 09: Suppliers Selection

• RFx Essentials
• Supplier selection criteria
• Service level agreement
• Incumbent supplier evaluation metrics

PART 10: Suppliers Under Coverage

• Overview
• Profile: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
• Profile: PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.
• Profile: Ernst & Young LLP
• Profile: International Business Machines Corp.
• Profile: Accenture Plc
• Profile: HP Inc.
• Supplier positioning

PART 11: US Market Insights

• Category spend in the US
• Price outlook
• Supplier cost structure in the US
• Margins of suppliers in the US
• Category cost drivers
• Category volume drivers
• Overview of best practices in the US
• Procurement best practices in the US
• US supply market overview
• Supplier positioning for the US
• Regional category risks

PART 12: Category Definition

• Category hierarchy
• Category scope
• Category map

PART 13: Appendix

• List of abbreviations
• Key Notes
• Global category spend (2019-2024)
• Category spend growth (2019-2024)
• Regional comparison
• Regional split of spend
• Comparison of category maturity across regions
• Regional spend opportunity for suppliers (2019-2024)
• Category pricing dynamics
• Supplier cost breakup
• Input cost dynamics
• Total cost of ownership model
• Benefit comparison of pricing models
• Pricing models - Comparison matrix
• Supplier margin analysis
• Margin analysis across supply chain
• Cost drivers
• Volume drivers
• Cost-saving opportunities: Supply-side levers
• Cost-saving opportunities: Demand-side levers
• Cost-saving opportunity matrix
• Negotiation grid
• Innovation and success stories
• Procurement excellence summary: Impact on the category
• Supplier relationship management metrics
• Strategic sourcing and category management metrics
• Technology-facilitated procurement metrics
• Procurement best practices dashboard
• Sustainability practices: Impact on the category
• Sustainability best practices
• Market environment score
• Market competitiveness score
• Buyer power score
• Supplier power score
• Ease of market entry score
• Ease of substitution score
• Buyer ecosystem: Outlook
• Supplier ecosystem: Outlook
• Ecosystem disruption threats
• Key category management objectives
• Supplier KPI dashboard
• Buyer KPI dashboard
• Category management enablers
• Risk management matrix
• Procurement model
• Category enablers: Technology
• RFx questions
• Phase I RFI considerations
• SLA terms
• Supplier performance benchmarking criteria
• Supplier operational capability matrix
• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. - Key information dashboard
• PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. - Key information dashboard
• Ernst & Young LLP - Key information dashboard
• International Business Machines Corp. - Key information dashboard
• Accenture Plc - Key information dashboard
• HP Inc. - Key information dashboard
• Supplier positioning matrix
• US category spend (2019-2024)
• Category pricing dynamics
• Supplier cost breakup
• Supplier margin analysis
• Margin analysis across supply chain
• Cost drivers
• Volume drivers
• Procurement excellence summary: Impact on category
• Supplier relationship management
• Strategic sourcing and category management
• Technology-facilitated procurement
• Supplier operational capability matrix
• Supplier positioning matrix
• Risk management matrix
• Category definition
• Category nuances
• Importance of category relative to other categories

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