Target Operating Model

Design a procurement function
built for the future

Our Target Operating Model service assesses your current procurement and supply chain organisation and highlights opportunities to right-size, optimise, and modernise it. We then deliver a clear, actionable plan to guide your transformation.

Why is TOM important?

A well-designed Target Operating Model (TOM) ensures your procurement and supply chain teams are structured, resourced, and enabled to deliver maximum value.

Procurato’s TOM design process looks at every aspect of your operating model, including structure, roles, capabilities, processes, governance, technology, and outputs. After thorough evaluation, the TOM defines the future-state organisation that will best meet your business requirements. We work closely with stakeholders to align outputs to business requirements, eliminate duplication, and unlock efficiencies, leaving you with a leaner, more effective, and data-driven function.

How it helps your business

Alignment with Business Needs

Ensure procurement and supply chain teams deliver exactly what the business requires, with clear roles and responsibilities across functions.

Optimised Organisation Setup

Design a team structure and capability mix that matches current scope, complexity, and future demand, ensuring the right resources are in the right place.

Empowered, High-Performing Teams

Provide your team with better tools, streamlined workflows, and clear governance, enabling them to focus on value-adding activities.

Clear Roadmap for Change

Receive a phased, actionable plan that ensures your organisational setup is fully aligned with business requirements, with minimal disruption and strong stakeholder engagement.

Our Approach to Target Operating Model Design

How it works

Our TOM approach follows a two-stage process, combining diagnostics with implementation planning.

Steps

01.

Diagnostic Stage

We review the current setup of your procurement and supply chain teams, including structure, skills required, processes, technology, tools, and ways of working. We conduct stakeholder interviews, assess capability, and benchmark against industry peers to identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency gains.

02.

Design & Implementation Planning

Planning Based on the diagnostic findings, we design the “to-be” operating model, including future organisation structure, governance framework, roles and responsibilities (RACI), capability development plan, and technology requirements. We create a business case, transition plan, and change management approach to prepare you for implementation planning.

What you get from Target Operating Model

Our Deliverables

As-Is Diagnostic Report

Assessment of current team structure, skills required, processes, governance and capability.

Optimised Operating Model

Define the future setup of your procurement and supply chain function, aligning governance, processes, and ways of working to business requirements and future demand.

Benchmarking Insights

Comparison to peer organisations and external benchmarks to validate recommendations.

Business Case & Implementation Roadmap

Phased transition plan, including change management and stakeholder engagement strategy.

Why Procurato

We combine real industry expertise with technology that adds value. We speak the same language as your teams, avoiding consultancy complexity, and deliver insights in a clear, practical way.

Agile and adaptable, we stay aligned with your agenda even when challenges arise, always focused on delivering what we promise and leaving behind solutions that last.