The Procurement Health Check
Find out where your procurement function actually stands.
Fifteen minutes on the phone. Six questions. You’ll leave the call with a maturity score across six categories and a straight answer on which two to fix first. No cost, no obligation, no pitch for software you don’t need.
Book Your Health CheckFree. Fifteen minutes. You get the scoring model either way.
What gets scored
How it works
- Book fifteen minutesPick a time. Two quick questions when you book so I know what you build before we start.
- We score six categories, liveOne question per category, 0 to 3. I ask, you answer, we talk about the ones that sting. No prep required on your end.
- You get your score and your two prioritiesWhere you land on a four-level maturity scale, and the two categories worth attacking first. I send the full 30-question instrument afterward so you can run it on your own team.
Where the questions come from
This isn’t a survey I invented to generate sales calls. The scoring model is adapted from the ASCM Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Digital Standard and the ISM Capability Model — the two frameworks Fortune 500 procurement organizations use to score themselves — with maturity descriptions cross-checked against CAPS Research benchmarking data.
What I did was scope them down. SCOR alone carries 250+ metrics, which is useless to a manufacturer with three people in purchasing. This is the procurement slice, sized for a $5M–$150M leadership team that needs an answer this quarter.
Give those references to your CFO when she asks where the questions came from.
Who’s asking
I’m John Kill — 25 years leading supply chain and procurement across automotive, defense, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing. MBA in purchasing, Six Sigma Green Belt, US Army veteran. I’ve negotiated a $50M six-year motor contract, taken over an $8.6M vendor book in an emergency with zero line stoppages, and helped a manufacturer grow revenue 32% by cutting lead times to a quarter of the competition’s.
Most mid-market manufacturers have never had a chief procurement officer. What they have is a very good buyer who’s been there twenty years and knows every part number by heart. That’s worth something. It isn’t a sourcing strategy — and the distance between the two is where the margin went.
Built for manufacturers between $5M and $150M in revenue. Companies that size rarely need a full-time chief procurement officer. Most need one about a day a week. The Health Check tells you whether that’s true for you before you spend a dollar finding out.
Where does your procurement actually stand?
Fifteen minutes and you’ll know. Free either way.
Book Your Health Check
JC Kill Consulting · Erie, Pennsylvania
Fractional Supply Chain Executive services for manufacturers, $5M–$150M revenue
john.k@jckillconsulting.com · 814-480-0959