The Indirect Procurement Assessment Built the Way Procurement Teams Actually Audit
Stop guessing where your indirect procurement has gaps. This structured Excel assessment covers 70 questions across 7 categories, scores every element automatically, and surfaces your improvement priorities, skills gaps, and action plan in one workbook.
Instant download · Excel (.xlsx) · 70 assessment questions · Lifetime access
Your indirect spend is growing.
The visibility isn't.
From scattered indirect spend to a structured improvement plan, in one sitting
Every procurement function gets asked the same question eventually: how mature is our indirect procurement? Office supplies, IT equipment, marketing services, facilities, maintenance, the spend is real, the risk is real, but the governance is often patchy. Most teams have policies somewhere, category strategies in progress, and supplier lists that haven't been reviewed in two years.
A good indirect procurement assessment doesn't just tick boxes. It gives you a scored, structured view of where you stand across policies, sourcing, spend management, supplier relationships, contracts, digitalisation, and risk, so you can prioritise what to fix first and make the case for investment.
This assessment tool is built by a practitioner, for practitioners. It reflects real audit frameworks used in procurement transformation programmes, distilled into a workbook your team can complete, score, and act on without external consultants.
Where are the gaps?
70 scored questions across 7 categories reveal exactly where your indirect function falls short.
How mature are we?
Automatic scoring per category and an overall maturity rating, ready to present to leadership.
What do we fix first?
Built-in improvement opportunities tab helps you prioritise actions and identify skills gaps immediately.
Where are the risks?
Risk management questions surface compliance gaps and supply vulnerabilities before they become problems.
Every indirect procurement dimension, structured and scored
Work through the 70 questions, enter your responses, and the workbook calculates your maturity score per category and overall. No formulas to write. No formatting to sort out.
Procurement Policies and Procedures
Assess whether your indirect procurement policies are documented, communicated, and consistently applied across the organisation.
Category Management and Sourcing
Evaluate how effectively you manage indirect categories, from strategy development through to supplier selection and sourcing execution.
Spend Management
Score your visibility into indirect spend, tracking, reporting, maverick spend control, and budget compliance across business units.
Supplier Management
Assess your supplier onboarding, performance tracking, relationship management, and rationalisation practices for indirect suppliers.
Contract and Contract Management
Evaluate whether contracts are in place, actively managed, and leveraged for renewal, compliance, and value delivery.
E-Procurement and Digitalisation
Score your digital maturity, purchase requisition workflows, catalogue management, approval automation, and system adoption rates.
Risk Management
Identify gaps in supply risk identification, contingency planning, compliance monitoring, and business continuity for indirect categories.
Automatic Category Scoring
Every category calculates its own maturity score automatically. See where you're strong and where you're exposed at a glance.
Improvement Opportunities and Action Plan Tab
Dedicated sheet to log findings, capture skills requirements, document support needed, and build your improvement roadmap in the same workbook.
Visual maturity scores for every category your team needs to assess
A visual scorecard makes it easy to communicate where you stand and what needs to change, no manual chart-building required.
See what you'll be working with
Three core views, the scoring table, the maturity chart, and the action plan sheet, give you everything you need to assess, communicate, and act.
Designed for procurement practitioners.
Not management consultants.
70 structured assessment questions
Each question is mapped to one of 7 categories. Answer, score, and immediately see which areas need the most attention.
Automatic maturity scoring
Scores calculate automatically per category and in aggregate. No manual tallying. The workbook does the maths as you complete it.
Visual radar chart
A spider/radar chart displays your maturity profile across all 7 dimensions. Present it to leadership or use it to structure your improvement roadmap.
Built-in improvement planning
A dedicated tab captures improvement opportunities, skills requirements, support needed, and critical observations. Your audit and your action plan in one file.
Covers the full indirect scope
From office supplies and IT to marketing services and facilities, the 7 categories cover the breadth of a typical indirect procurement function.
Fully editable and reusable
Add your company name, adapt category labels, and rerun the assessment annually. Track your improvement year on year with the same workbook.
From blank workbook to improvement plan in four steps
Open the workbook
Download and open the Excel file. The assessment sheet is pre-structured and ready to complete.
Answer the 70 questions
Work through each category. Score each question based on your organisation's current practices.
Review scores and chart
Scores calculate automatically. The radar chart updates to show your maturity profile across all 7 categories.
Build your action plan
Use the dedicated tab to log priorities, skills gaps, and support needed. Present findings to leadership.
Built for the people who have to
defend their indirect procurement function to leadership
Baseline your function before the next strategy review
Know exactly where you stand before someone else tells you. Score all 7 categories and walk in with a plan.
Make the case for indirect procurement investment
Present a scored maturity assessment to justify headcount, technology, or process improvement budgets.
Run a rapid client diagnostic from day one
Complete the assessment in a client workshop and deliver a scored gap analysis before the end of week one.
Structure a procurement improvement programme
Use the scored output to prioritise initiatives, allocate resources, and track progress over successive review cycles.
Every indirect procurement question people ask,
answered by your own assessment data
Procurement leaders and analysts search for these exact questions. This assessment tool gives you structured, scored answers from your own organisation's data, not generic benchmarks.
Indirect procurement covers spend that doesn't go into your product. It often lacks the governance applied to direct spend. A structured assessment surfaces those gaps before they become audit findings or cost leaks.
Work through scored questions in each category, calculate maturity scores, visualise the profile, then document improvement priorities and skills gaps. This workbook structures all four steps in one file.
Policies, category management, spend management, supplier management, contract management, e-procurement, and risk management. This tool covers all seven with scored questions in each.
Generic checklists give you a list. This tool gives you a scored maturity profile, a visual chart, and a structured action plan, built specifically for indirect procurement, not procurement in general.
Before a procurement transformation, ahead of an audit, or at the start of annual planning. Running it annually lets you track maturity progress over time.
By making gaps visible. When you can see that your contract management scores 40% and spend management scores 60%, you know exactly where to focus to reduce maverick spend and compliance risk first.
Built by a practitioner who has lived
the indirect procurement problem firsthand
Before you buy
What does the indirect procurement assessment cover?
70 questions across 7 categories: policies, category management, spend management, supplier management, contracts, e-procurement, and risk management. Each category scores independently and contributes to an overall maturity rating.
How long does it take to complete the assessment?
Most practitioners complete it in 60 to 90 minutes. In a workshop setting with a small team, allow a half-day to discuss and align on each score.
Do I need any special Excel skills to use it?
No. Open the file, answer the questions, and the scores calculate automatically. Basic Excel familiarity is all you need.
Can I customise the questions for my organisation?
Yes. The workbook is fully editable. Adapt question wording, rename categories, and add your company name to make it yours.
Is this suitable for a consulting engagement with a client?
Yes. Run it in a client workshop, complete the scoring together, and present the radar chart and action plan as your day-one deliverable. It's structured for exactly that use case.
What format will I receive after purchase?
An instant download link to the .xlsx Excel file, plus a download link via email. Works on Excel 2016 or later, Windows and Mac, and Microsoft 365.
Can I reuse this assessment year on year?
Yes. Save a copy each year, complete it again, and compare scores. It's a permanent audit tool, not a one-time exercise.
Find out where your indirect procurement actually stands.
Download the SCMDOJO Indirect Procurement Best Practices Assessment and turn a vague sense of gaps into a scored maturity profile and a concrete action plan, today.
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