Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies Market Procurement Intelligence Report

A changing ecosystem within the Engineering Products and Equipment market also affects the procurement process, cost dynamics and supplier attractiveness for the buyers of Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies. Volatility in the prices of key inputs is creating multiple issues that impact procurement within Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies category such as benchmarking and budgeting of the procurement costs.

Suppliers are continuously taking efforts to improve efficiencies and productivity and deploying processes and technologies. Some of these investments are likely to increase their costs in the shorter term, but learnings from other sectors keep the suppliers optimistic about a lean cost structure in the longer run.

Regulatory guidance on data protection and increasing concern over cybersecurity have increased the costs for suppliers as they incur additional spend on compliance and security. These additional costs have a potential to drive marginal increase in prices across the key geographies.

Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies procurement best practices are moving towards a level of sophistication which is typically seen in traditional procurement categories. Category managers now have an attractive opportunity to adapt the best practices seen within this category as well as those being leveraged in other non-related categories. This report summarizes the best practices picked from across multiple categories that could work well for category managers involved with Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies procurement strategy.

For example, Buyers need to evaluate the in-depth expertise of suppliers in the Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies industry. This can be assessed by considering factors such as the years of experience, number of resources that have multi-year experience of working in the same industry and at least 3 to 5 credentials for the supplier.

Buyers should assess the level of adoption of the latest technologies by suppliers to assess cost-saving opportunities and quality that can be provided by the latter. For instance, the adoption of technologies such as cloud computing will enable suppliers to reduce their internal computing hardware requirements for operations such as CAD and CAM. This can, in turn, enable them to reduce their operating costs, thereby suppliers can offer products at lower rates to buyers.

Buyers should engage with suppliers that repurchase used products at fair market value. This assists buyers to dispose of used products in a convenient manner. Also, during such repurchases, suppliers provide credits to buyers for future purchases. This reduces overall procurement costs for buyers.

Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies procurement managers also need to proactively identify and mitigate potential risks that can arise in the supply chain or contracts for Diamond Cutting Equipment & Supplies procurement. Some examples include: