01Technical procurement
Unlocking technical sourcing capacity
Customer demand was waiting. Scarce technical capacity was spent on repeatable coordination, so orders could not get through.
Business challenge
A U.S.-facing technical procurement company struggled to convert customer demand into revenue because its team had limited capacity to source, technically validate, and quality-check specialized components manufactured in China. Each new requirement triggered significant supplier coordination, sampling, testing, and exception-handling work.
Approach
Redesigned the operating model to separate technical judgment from repeatable procurement and QC execution, standardized sourcing, sampling and quality workflows, and expanded capacity around the binding constraint.
Outcome
Increased effective technical sourcing capacity and unlocked $100K in incremental ARR that the existing operating model could not support.
- Incremental ARR the old model could not support
$100K
Incremental ARR the old model could not support
- Binding constraint: spec to qualified supply
1
Binding constraint: spec to qualified supply
- New factories added to capture the demand
0
New factories added to capture the demand