Planting Machinery Market Procurement Intelligence Report

Environmental Goods market around the world is undergoing rapid transitions that have a massive potential to influence the way companies strategize for Planting Machinery procurement and the cost they have to incur. Suppliers are disrupting traditional business models with new offerings and terms. These disruptions are also necessitating buyers to relook their procurement practices and standards with respect to supplier selection and price benchmarking activities.

Several structural changes including M&As and vertical integration efforts of suppliers are characterizing the broader market. Such strategic developments can erode the strength of previously established supplier relationships due to changed realities in the supplier's ecosystem. At the same time, buyers may also find opportunities to onboard new suppliers with a wider range of offerings or better contract terms for .

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 report discusses in detail the best practices that have served well the category managers responsible for Planting Machinery procurement.

For example, Large organizational buyers can leverage their scale of operations to initiate competitive bidding between suppliers. Competitive bidding would enable buyers to have a better visibility of the market prices and may help identify suppliers that offer the most competitive price offering viz-a-viz other players.

Buyers should proactively manage relations with Planting Machinery suppliers and have pre-determined intervention criteria for onboarding or replacing a supplier, changing specifications or terms and conditions.

Strong R&D focus is the sign of a supplier committed to enhancing the quality and cost proposition of its solutions. Buyers should collaborate with such suppliers for development of low-cost but highly efficiency products that can bring their OPEX down.

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

• Changes in the regulations pertaining to import and export of goods significantly impact the category. For instance, imposition of tariffs and restriction on import of certain raw materials disrupts the whole industry
• 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
• Category is exposed to the currency exchange risks primarily due to high amount of imports of raw material. The lowering down of dollar and Euro prices against the currency of exporting regions will result in the suppliers incurring extra expenses, which ultimately affects the profitability of the buyer

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