Competence Assessment

Understand where we are to know where to go

The EIPM talent assessment

Bee-Resources© is a secure, simple, flexible and efficient assessment process for individual, team or companywide evaluations.

It is available in 7 languages and has been used by more than 20 000 professionals since 2004 around the world.

The tool has been adapted over the years through collaborations with experts in several domains (Purchasing, HR, Universities), in order to offer today its latest version (service related and production related).

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Why is talent development becoming a critical issue?

One of the greatest obstacles to your company’s growth is “Finding and Retaining Talent”.

The challenge now is to attract the right people, retain them and develop each individual in your team to their full potential.

This “War for Talent” is a common challenge experienced across all organisations today.

—Bernard Gracia, EIPM Founder and President

Main objectives

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Purchasing team in terms of skills, based on the level expectations of the Purchasing department and based on the evolution of the Purchasing function to prepare “the buyers of tomorrow”.
Identify the level of performance of each Purchasing collaborator.
Define adapted and precise trainings recommendations at group level.
Identify training requirements and long-term development orientations at individual level.

At the end of the assessment

At individual level: participants receive a report of their evaluation with suggestions to support their career evolution.
At group level: the Purchasing Manager receives a report (anonymous & confidential) with precise skills cartography of his team (strengths & areas to reinforce) and a training roadmap recommendation (training to follow & training methodology to be used).

The tool covers 18 standard job profiles within Purchasing and Supply Chain functions, from which the reference frame covers 47 activities and 66 skills.

What's more

Effectively contributing to your recruitment process.
Supporting organisational and individual development plans to adapt to current and future challenges.
Being a reliable and unbiased support for appraisals.
Assessing existing capabilities, identifying critical competencies and potential gaps.

Customisation

We have created standard job profiles for various job positions. Nonetheless, companies may customise the method by adding specific activities, and skills, by building specific job positions, or simply by modifying the terminology.

Accessibility

The tool is accessible through a web browser and enables simultaneous assessment of various levels of purchasing professionals worldwide. Access is possible from a PC, a tablet, or a smartphone.

Confidentiality

Individual information is treated confidentially, and controlled by the user, according to country and company or worker council-specific requirements.