✅ (Strategic vs. Leverage vs. Bottleneck vs. Routine) ✅ Do you understand "should-cost" vs. "will-cost"? ✅ Is your sourcing team measured on savings, or on value generation?

Need a good alternative? Look up CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply) or Kraljic Matrix models—they pair perfectly with Thompson’s philosophy.

I’ve seen a spike in searches for a "Tresa Thompson strategic sourcing PDF." While I cannot redistribute copyrighted materials directly, I want to highlight why that specific resource (and Thompson’s methodology) has become such a benchmark in procurement.