Protective & Clean Room Clothing Category Procurement Intelligence Report

A changing ecosystem within the Clothing and Textiles market also affects the procurement process, cost dynamics and supplier attractiveness for the buyers of Protective & Clean Room Clothing. Regulatory changes are taking place more frequently and the changes impact multiple functions within an organization. Alignment of procurement practices and decisions with all the new regulations has now become highly challenging, especially when category managers are responsible to centrally procure for multiple regions with different regulations.

The global industry has seen a gradual increase in labor cost due to several factors, such as shortage of a trained workforce, increase in minimum wages, regulations around employee benefits and declining appeal for what have been traditionally called unskilled jobs. As the employee expenses increase, suppliers are compelled to pass some of this increase to their buyers by charging higher prices.

Buyers are moving towards longer contract durations with suppliers of Protective & Clean Room Clothing to benefit from value-based discounts, integrated products and services, lower renewal cost and lesser expenses on contracting activities.

Protective & Clean Room Clothing 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 Protective & Clean Room Clothing procurement strategy.

For example, Buyers should engage with suppliers that can repurchase the used products at fair market value or can offer recycling capability. This assists buyers to dispose of used products in a convenient manner and honor their sustainability practices. Also, suppliers provide credits to buyers for future purchases. This reduces overall procurement costs for buyers.

Buyers can consider engaging suppliers that use advanced technologies such as automation, robotics, and lean manufacturing in their manufacturing process. The use of such technologies enables suppliers to control their OPEX and reduce TAT, which will help buyers avail volume-based discounts on category purchases.

Buyers need to evaluate the in-depth expertise of suppliers in the Protective & Clean Room Clothing 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.

Protective & Clean Room Clothing procurement managers also need to proactively identify and mitigate potential risks that can arise in the supply chain or contracts for Protective & Clean Room Clothing procurement. Some examples include: