Argha Insights
Services

Supplier Insights
We provide a detailed analysis around the suppliers landscape to kickstart your RFx using our proprietary database and SMEs. Whether your requirements are for local or global suppliers, we thrive to provide only the relevant suppliers with fully alignment with the requirements.
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Cost Insights
Supplier’s cost assessment is one of the key negotiation levers in the hand of sourcing and procurement professionals, specifically for strategic spend categories. It also enables the category managers for budgeting. Argha Insights offer detailed and actionable cost assessment solutions with outcome assurance.
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Discover new potential suppliers specific to your needs.
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Evaluate suppliers and engage with the optimum ones.
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Detailed suppliers profiles and benchmarking.
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Financial and risk assessment of suppliers.
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Identify different supplier segments operating in the market.
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Establish preferred and strategic suppliers lists.
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Explore supply base consolidation opportunities.
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Assess suppliers' cost elements.
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Identify negotiation opportunities and potential savings.
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Effective budget planning by incorporating expected changes in suppliers' costs.
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Detailed should-cost modeling for strategic spend to collaborate with suppliers for cost optimization.
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Make versus buy decisions

Category Insights
A comprehensive yet precise intelligence solution supporting sourcing professionals in their category strategy development and decision making process. Our insights are vetted by the category SMEs working in small to large sized organizations and thus bringing a blended perspective for the category managers.
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Supply Risk Insights
Supply risk management has always been an important aspect in sourcing and procurement domain but also been overlooked many-a-times because of its complexity and indirect impact on the bottom line savings. Argha Insights offer supply risk assessment program design and execution with specific focus toward removing complexity.
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Sourcing strategies formulations
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Sourcing and engagement models
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Commercial models
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SLAs and KPIs
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RFx Toolkit
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Industry best practices
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Market trends and potential impact
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Financial risk analysis for strategic and preferred suppliers.​
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Suppliers' operational risks.
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Country risks - PESTLE
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Logistics risk
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Suppliers' reputational risks.
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Continuous monitoring of preferred suppliers.
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Risk mitigation strategies.

Pricing Insights
Monthly price trends and forecast for forestry products, chemicals and packaging supplies. Argha Insights pro-actively publishes monthly prices for pulp, paper and woods along with market commentaries. We have emerged as one of the strongest player in the industry to offer pricing insights for multiple commodities.
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Monthly price indices for pulp and paper.
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Monthly price indices for chemicals.
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Monthly price indices for packaging supplies.
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Price forecasts for short-term, medium term and long term.
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Price data supported with demand-supply and cost dynamics.
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Industry dynamics and impact on prices.