Capability Asessments
Evaluate current procurement or supply chain capability against a consistent, industry-specific framework. Identify strengths, expose priority gaps and establish an evidence-based route to improvement.
Choose the Right Side
Select the assessment that reflects your function, or combine both to understand the shared suppliers, systems, data and decisions connecting procurement and supply chain.
Evaluates the maturity of an organization’s procurement function against defined professional and industry-specific criteria.
Evaluates how end-to-end supply chain capability supports reliable flow, operational performance and resilience.
Undertake either assessment or combine both for a connected view
A connected capability view
Examines strategic direction, accountability, policies and decision rights.
Reviews roles, skills, leadership, capacity and workforce readiness.
Evaluates process ownership, consistency, compliance and supporting controls.
Reviews systems, data quality, integration, visibility and decision support.
Examines measures, targets, outcomes and performance-monitoring practices.
Reviews how improvements are identified, prioritised, implemented and sustained.
SCPMI does not consult on organisations it later audits. Improvement may be managed internally or with an adviser of your choice; any subsequent audit remains independent.
What you receive
The assessment converts organisational evidence into a structured view of current capability and the areas requiring attention.
See how capability currently performs across the assessed dimensions.
Understand what is working and what should be protected or extended.
Identify where standards or performance expectations are not yet being met.
Focus attention on the areas with the greatest operational impact.
How it works
Five practical stages take your organisation from assessment scoping to an actionable improvement plan.
Agree the scope, objectives, stakeholders and evidence requirements.
Collect relevant documents, data, interviews and operational evidence.
Evaluate the evidence against the applicable capability framework.
Present current maturity, existing strengths, capability gaps and priorities.
Act on the findings internally or with an adviser of your choice.
Who should participate
Define the procurement scope and provide strategic, governance and supplier evidence.
Provide an end-to-end view of planning, operations, inventory and resilience.
Contribute practical evidence from sourcing, planning, logistics, operations and related functions.
Connect assessment findings with current and planned improvement initiatives.
Translate capability gaps into focused workforce-development priorities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find clear answers about assessment scope, evidence, reporting, improvement and independent audit.
It is an evidence-based assessment of a procurement or supply chain function against published, industry-specific maturity standards.
Choose the one that matches the function you are accountable for: the Procurement Maturity Assessment covers strategy, sourcing, supplier performance and the commercial disciplines around them, while the Supply Chain Maturity Assessment covers planning, operations, inventory, logistics, technology and resilience.
Many organisations undertake both. Where the two functions share suppliers, systems and data, running them together gives leadership one connected view rather than two partial ones.
Yes. Capability is judged against the standard published for your sector, so the criteria reflect its regulations, supplier markets, operating model, risks, technology and performance priorities rather than a single generic benchmark.
You receive a structured report setting out current maturity, existing strengths, the capability gaps holding performance back and the improvements worth making first.
From there the work is yours to sequence, and the report is written to be acted on rather than filed.
No. SCPMI does not consult on organisations it later audits, so improvement may be managed internally or with an adviser of your choice.
Any subsequent audit remains independent and applies the same published standard either way.
Talk to SCPMI about the right assessment scope for your procurement or supply chain function.
