Summit Procurement offers a full suite of procurement managed services from strategic sourcing and contracting activities down to tactical procure-to-pay activities:- Strategic Category Management: Developing the Strategic Plan. Includes spend analytics, category planning activities, key stakeholder management, oversight of all strategic sourcing activities, and supplier development and management actions.- Sourcing Management: Finding the Best Suppliers. Includes Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP/Q) activities, and competitive negotiations. - Contracting Management: Getting Chosen Suppliers Under Contract. Includes contract review and assessment, supplier/governance research, contract drafting, contract revision, contract negotiation, and routing for signature and approval.- Tactical Procure-to-Pay Management: Purchase Order/Requisition (PO/PR) and Invoicing. Includes both low-cost onshore team members and nearshore/offshore resources to cover all your requirements from language skill to cost to cultural fit.Our team of procurement professionals sleep, eat, and breathe procurement every day and we can offer part-time resources to manage your "busy season" or full-time teams of resources to completely outsource and optimize your entire procurement function.

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