Procurement
TOLSON VDA is TOLSON's historical community of collective intelligence, designed to support Procurement Departments in making fast, informed and strategic decisions.
Its principle is simple: to allow organizations to learn directly from the most advanced companies, thanks to structured, concrete and immediately actionable exchanges.
The TOLSON VDA community structures procurement issues around two major pillars of procurement transformation:
Benchmarking of Procurement Categories
TOLSON VDA allows procurement departments to carry out peer-to-peer benchmarks on the main categories of indirect procurement:
– Successful categorical strategies
– Market trends and challenges by category
– New approaches to procurement and innovation
Categories covered: IT procurement, HR services, professional services, industrial maintenance, transport & freight, packaging, marketing.
Procurement Excellence : improving the performance of the procurement function
Procurement departments discuss best practices to optimize their organization and accelerate transformation:
– Procurement organization
– Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI & Agentic AI)
– Sustainable procurement
– Procurement Performance
– Tail spend and business user management
– Supplier value management
For whom?
TOLSON VDA is a community of excellence in procurement that brings together leading companies committed to the transformation and performance of their procurement function.
Member profiles:
- Purchasing Directors (CPO)
- Procurement Excellence Managers
- Procurement Data Managers
- Category Managers
A clear value proposition:
Access a selective circle of purchasing decision-makers who share the same strategic challenges, to benefit from concrete benchmarks, operational feedback and practices that can be immediately actionable.
Example of Session Schedule
Procurement Excellence
Category Benchmarking
Leading Procurement Suites
Concrete and measurable benefits
- Respond quickly to your operational and strategic issues
- Benefit from reliable and proven feedback
- Accelerate the continuous improvement of your teams
- Challenge your decisions with your peers
- Anticipate market trends
- Connect with your International peers
Our method
A unique model based on collective
intelligence
TOLSON is based on a proven model of peer-to-peer benchmarking, structured and secure.
What characterizes our approach:
- Community of practice only (service providers only intervene on an ad hoc basis)
- Confidentiality of exchanges
- Prepared and structured sessions
- Synthesis and capitalization of the teachings
Our role:
Turn conversations into actionable insights for you and your teams
Our support
Personalized support for every member
- SCOPING
- ONBOARDING
- MONTHLY FOLLOW-UP
- TEAM ENGAGEMENT
Benefit:
Make the most of everything the community has to offer!