Intellectual Property | Market, Trends, Growth | Suppliers Analysis

Strategic Sourcing Guide to Intellectual Property Procurement

Overview

Legal market around the world is undergoing rapid transitions that have a massive potential to influence the way companies strategize for Intellectual Property procurement and the cost they have to incur. Suppliers are introducing self-service tools such as virtual agents in their customer service ecosystem to reduce the time and costs incurred by customers to resolve an issue.

Lack of skilled in-house manpower continues to be the largest factor for hiring of Intellectual Property.

Talent pools available to suppliers of Intellectual Property are gradually getting costlier, impacting their OPEX. Suppliers are compelled to change their pricing structure and pass on some of this cost increase to their customers.

Intellectual Property Procurement Best Practices

Sometimes, procurement functions are unable to timely alter their practices while responding to market conditions. Industry experts acknowledge that periodically reviewing procurement best practices and adopting learnings from across procurement categories can help procurement teams respond to market needs in a more agile way. This report combines our experience of other categories with Intellectual Property procurement insights and hand picks best practices that can work for category managers delving in this market.

For example, Adequate RFP response time should be built in for prospective suppliers to enable them understand the scope and performance requirements.

Buyers should engage suppliers that can provide services customized for their industry. Though most suppliers offer services across various industries, category managers should ensure that services can be customized and negotiate on pricing based on the level of required customization.

Investing in benchmarking studies help category managers improve their knowledge on market pricing or billing rates of suppliers by job role and function. This also allows them to save costs as well as negotiate better with service providers.

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Risks in Intellectual Property procurement

Intellectual Property procurement managers also need to proactively identify and mitigate potential risks that can arise in the supply chain or contracts for Intellectual Property procurement. Some examples include:

Service providers are subject to E&O claims, due to the failure to correctly offer professional services as agreed in the contract. If such claims made by the client are found to be true, then they can result in financial penalties
Pricing terms in the contract could prove to be inadequate to safeguard the buyer from impact of a sudden increase in supplier's cost, often arising from a lack of clarity on scope of products or services to be delivered
Suppliers may face a situation where they are unable to honor a contract in its entirety due to shortage of resources, finances or capabilities. While contractual terms safeguard buyers from the non-performance, their operations could still face massive disruptions due to suppliers' non-performance

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Who should read this report

The report is intended to serve as a one-stop reference guide for Intellectual Property procurement strategy and offers a perfect blend of category basics with deep-dive category data and insights. Therefore, it is ideal for category beginners looking for “Intellectual Property: Procurement Report 101” as well as for category experts actively tracking the global Intellectual Property procurement market.

You may have just initiated your research to design a winning Intellectual Property procurement strategy, or you may be a category expert looking for strategic insights and updated data.Either ways, the report has your requirements covered.

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Key questions on Intellectual Property procurement answered by this report

Procurement decisions can prove to be costly in the absence of careful deliberation and evaluation of every available option. In fact, more than 90% of the decision makers we work with acknowledge that timely availability of up-to-date category intelligence can help them make better purchasing decisions. More than 80% of them believe that in-house category intelligence needs to be updated periodically to achieve full benefits. If you have read so far, we are quite sure you agree!!

The Intellectual Property procurement report helps take more informed decisions by placing all the critical information and advice at the fingertips of a decision maker. It also specifically answers some of the key questions that we have been routinely asked during our industry outreach initiatives:

What is the spend potential in the Intellectual Property market?
What is the correct price to pay for Intellectual Property? What are the key trends and factors that influence current and future pricing?
Which selection criteria are the most important for Intellectual Property Suppliers Market?
Who are the top Intellectual Property suppliers? What are their cost structures?
Which negotiation levers can reduce Intellectual Property procurement cost ?
What are supplier margins in Intellectual Property market?
What are the best practices for Intellectual Property procurement and what are the potential risks?

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Intellectual Property Category Insights: What is inside

The Intellectual Property market report offers a complete picture of the supply market and analyzes the category from the perspective of both buyers and suppliers. Analysis of the category trends, procurement best practices, negotiation levers and overall category management strategy advisory are interspersed with in-depth data and commentary on spend outlook, pricing ecosystem and supplier landscape drilled down to a region-level coverage.

Data

A key highlight of this report is the in-depth outlook created on Intellectual Property procurement spend and pricing trends. The report further delves deep into the aspects of cost structure, total cost of ownership and supplier margins for Intellectual Property. A dedicated section to supplier profiles and evaluation helps decision makers cast a wider procurement net and identify gaps in existing relationships.

Insights

Along with specific category and supplier intelligence, the publication also includes curated insights on Intellectual Property market trends, price influencers and inherent risks. These insights help the decision makers prepare for market shaping trends in advance and create alternative strategies for changes in the market conditions.

Advisory

Additionally, the report also advises on the best practices and strategies to manage the Intellectual Property category efficiently. Negotiation levers and opportunities are explained in detail along with quantification of their potential. Benchmark KPIs for supplier and buyer performance management are also aggregated to better organize the category objectives. Other themes of advisory include ideal procurement organization structure, enablers to achieve KPIs or category objectives and ideal SLAs to have with suppliers.

Category Ecosystem

Buyer and supplier ecosystem
Competitiveness index
Buyer and supplier power
Threat of new entrants and substitutes

Global and Regional Sourcing Insights

Category spend
Spend growth
Dynamics
Opportunities

Pricing and Cost Analysis

Pricing outlook and data
Drivers of pricing
Cost structure and inputs cost
Total cost of ownership
Pricing models and margins

Cost Saving Opportunities & Negotiation Strategies

Buyer and supplier side levers
Quantified cost saving opportunities
Negotiation strategies and quantified outcome

Procurement Best Practices, Strategy and Enablers

Procurement excellence
Sustainability and innovation
KPIs and category enablers
Risk management and outsourcing

Vendor Analysis

RFx essentials and selection criteria
SLAs
Supplier evaluation metrics
Detailed supplier profiles

Our research is complex, but our reports are easy to digest. Quantitative analysis and exhaustive commentary is placed in an easy to read format that gives you an in-depth knowledge on the category without spending hours to figure out “what does it mean for my company?”

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Category Research Framework

SpendEdge presents a detailed picture of Intellectual Property procurement solutions by way of study, synthesis, and summation of data from multiple sources. The analysts have presented the various facets of the market with a particular focus on identifying the key category influencers. The data thus presented is comprehensive, reliable, and the result of extensive research, both primary and secondary.