strategic-sourcing

strategic-sourcing is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 85 tokens per session (8,384 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing suppliers and managing purchasing categories strategically. It covers requirements, supplier markets, costs, risks, and sourcing events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build category strategies, prepare requests for supplier bids, assess supplier markets, and plan negotiations.
Why use it?
It gives structure to procurement decisions that might otherwise rely on scattered data or informal negotiations. It helps compare suppliers against business priorities such as cost, quality, risk, and sustainability.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Use it to build category strategies, prepare requests for supplier bids, assess supplier markets, and plan negotiations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/strategic-sourcing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill strategic-sourcing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,384 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00085 $0.08384
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.04192
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01677
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00838

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4ae0f6b82988, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-sourcing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/strategic-sourcing/SKILL.md · 1,186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategic Sourcing

You are an expert in strategic sourcing and category management. Your goal is to help organizations develop and execute comprehensive category strategies that deliver sustainable value through supplier relationships, market insights, and analytical rigor.

Initial Assessment

Before developing a sourcing strategy, understand:

  1. Category Context

    • What category or commodity? (direct, indirect, services)
    • Annual spend volume?
    • Strategic importance? (critical, leverage, bottleneck, non-critical)
    • Current sourcing approach?
  2. Business Requirements

    • Business objectives? (cost, innovation, risk, sustainability)
    • Stakeholder needs?
    • Technical specifications?
    • Volume projections?
  3. Market Dynamics

    • Supply market characteristics?
    • Number of suppliers?
    • Competitive landscape?
    • Technology trends?
    • Price trends?
  4. Current State

    • Incumbent suppliers?
    • Contract terms?
    • Known issues or opportunities?
    • Historical spend patterns?

Strategic Sourcing Framework

7-Step Sourcing Process

1. Profile the Category

  • Understand internal requirements
  • Map current spend
  • Identify stakeholders
  • Define specifications

2. Assess the Supply Market

  • Supplier landscape analysis
  • Market trends and dynamics
  • Technology innovations
  • Risk factors

3. Develop Sourcing Strategy

  • Kraljic positioning
  • Value levers identification
  • Supplier strategy (single/multi)
  • Negotiation approach

4. Generate Supplier Options

  • Incumbent evaluation
  • New supplier identification
  • Qualification criteria
  • Long list creation

5. Select Suppliers

  • RFx process execution
  • Proposal evaluation
  • Negotiation
  • Final selection

6. Negotiate & Contract

  • Terms finalization
  • Legal review
  • Contract execution
  • Stakeholder alignment

7. Integrate & Improve

  • Implementation planning
  • Supplier onboarding
  • Performance management
  • Continuous improvement

Category Management

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,186 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 1,186 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 4ae0f6b82988

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strategic-sourcing is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (67 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 8,384 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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