Literature Services Category Procurement Intelligence Report

A complete buyer's guide that provides comprehensive insights on Literature Services category spend, spend growth and regional segmentation; in-depth price trends; negotiation levers and analysis of Literature Services suppliers.

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Our category grouping process defines that the overall Writing Services market includes all spend related to services obtained for writing of official, promotional or creative documents. Writing materials are not part of the category. Dynamics of the global Literature Services market play out within this wider arena of Writing Services market. Therefore, our coverage of the Literature Services category also operates within this broader boundary of the overall Writing Services market.

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Strategic Sourcing Guide to Literature Services Procurement

Overview

Business practices within Literature Services market are heavily influenced by changing trends across the category as well as within the broader Writing Services market. New locations and vendors are emerging as cost effective suppliers of Literature Services, offering an opportunity to widen the supplier base and gain further negotiation leverage with incumbent suppliers.

Many suppliers are investing in automation technologies such as AI, robotics, machine learning and big data to optimize their business operations and offer new services to their customers. However, a part of this investment is also passed to buyers in the form of high prices being charged for value added services.

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.

As a result, category managers need to closely monitor the Literature Services procurement trends and identify changes required in their procurement environment for the category.

Literature Services Procurement Best Practices

Literature Services 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 Literature Services procurement strategy.

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

Cost saving opportunities may reduce exponentially in relation to the time left for current contract to expire or required timeline to start the engagement. Therefore sufficient interval should exist between initation of new procurement and expected start date of the new contract for Literature Services.

Buyers should set a baseline against which the performance of suppliers can be benchmarked along with setting measurable/quantifiable KPIs. Defined KPIs provides suppliers with clarity on the scope. Besides setting standards for operations, pricing, and performance, KPIs must provide tangible goals in terms of the quality of solutions.


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Risks in Literature Services procurement

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


  • 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
  • Contract-related risks where unfavorable credit terms may severly penalize buyers for delayed payments or entitle the supplier to demand pre-payments or shorten the payment terms are not very common in the category but they do exist in certain situations where buyers' liquidity or financial health is in question
  • Service providers depend on their personnel's expertise and business acumen to achieve high business growth. Competition for acquiring experienced professionals is extremely high in the market. They need to incorporate effective measures to retain talent as well as implement succession planning strategies

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Who should read this report

  • The report is intended to serve as a one-stop reference guide for Literature Services 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 “Literature Services: Procurement Report 101” as well as for category experts actively tracking the global Literature Services procurement market.

     

    You may have just initiated your research to design a winning Literature Services 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 Literature Services 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 Literature Services 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 Literature Services market?
    • What is the correct price to pay for Literature Services? What are the key trends and factors that influence current and future pricing?
    • Which selection criteria are the most important for Literature Services Suppliers Market?
    • Who are the top Literature Services suppliers? What are their cost structures?
    • Which negotiation levers can reduce Literature Services procurement cost ?
    • What are supplier margins in Literature Services market?
    • What are the best practices for Literature Services procurement and what are the potential risks?

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Literature Services Category Insights: What is inside

The Literature Services 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 Literature Services procurement spend and pricing trends. The report further delves deep into the aspects of cost structure, total cost of ownership and supplier margins for Literature Services. 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 Literature Services 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 Literature Services 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?”

Category Research Framework


SpendEdge presents a detailed picture of Literature Services 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.

Information Sources


Primary research
Secondary research
Procurement heads
Industry journals and reports
Category managers
Periodicals and new articles
Sourcing consortium professionals
Category webinars
Industry experts and thought leaders
Internal categiry playbooks
Procurement managers
Industry/government websites on regulations, compliance
Category heads of suppliers
Internal databases
Client account heads/managers
Industry blogs/thought leader briefings
Client and industry consultants

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