Keep production and purchasing moving with supply chain and procurement outsourcing

Sourcefit’s supply chain and procurement rates are $1,290 a month for entry level, $1,750 for mid level and $2,350 for senior planners, buyers and analysts, per full-time employee working from home. Office-based staff add $100 a month. Each rate is all in: salary and benefits at cost plus the $395 management fee. There are no setup, recruitment or exit fees. Where the work suits it, output-based pricing is also available, built on the same transparent framework: we show how the unit price is calculated, so you know exactly what you are paying for.

No. The fee is already inside every rate on this page and on every quote. A $1,290 rate is about $895 of salary and benefits at cost plus the $395 fee. You will never see the fee added to a rate you were quoted.

Legal employment and compliance with an HR team on the ground, recruitment, an i5 computer with dual monitors and headset, a 24/7 IT help desk, a secure managed network, our security certifications and insurance, training and quality, client success management and the Knit workforce platform. For office-based staff it also covers the seat, office network and utilities.

Most supply chain and procurement roles are recruited, interviewed and onboarded in three to five weeks. Senior forecasting and category roles can take longer. You interview and choose the planners, buyers and analysts.

That is your choice. Most clients manage the team directly: the planners, buyers and analysts report to your managers and work inside your processes and tools, with Sourcefit handling employment, HR, equipment, IT and quality support behind them. If you would rather not manage day to day, our Sightline model builds an autonomous team with its own Sourcefit team lead and quality layer that delivers against agreed SLAs, while still reporting directly to you and working to your KPIs, not ours. Sightline is quoted separately.

Yes. Planners, buyers and analysts work in your ERP, planning and procurement systems, such as SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Coupa and Ariba, plus Excel and Power BI, under your access rules. You keep ownership of every account, and access is revoked the day someone leaves.

Sourcefit holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27701 certification directly, is PCI DSS validated, has a SOC 2 report, signs HIPAA business associate agreements where needed and operates GDPR-aligned data handling. Home-based staff work on company-managed computers over a VPN with traffic routed through Cloudflare.

The team is yours. If you decide to move them to your own entity or take them with you, they go with you. There is no transfer fee, buyout or conversion charge.

Production planners and planner-buyers who turn the demand plan into production and purchase schedules; procurement officers and buyers for indirect, non-produce and national category spend; purchase order administrators and supplier coordinators; demand planners and forecasting and insights analysts; inventory and master data analysts; supply chain reporting and S&OP analysts; and the team leads and planning managers who run the function. If the role plans what to make or buy, buys it, tracks it or reports on it, it fits here. Warehouse, dispatch and freight roles are on the logistics page; accounts payable sits with accounting.

Most of it. Demand and production planning, purchase order creation and expediting, supplier follow-up and performance tracking, quote collection and tabulation, indirect and category buying within agreed parameters, inventory and item master maintenance, forecasting models and S&OP reporting all move offshore, and senior planners and buyers can own a category or a product line end to end. What usually stays with you is strategic sourcing and the negotiation of major supply contracts, approval of spend above an agreed limit, and buying that depends on being in the market in person. For a fresh produce client, for example, our team runs non-produce and indirect procurement while the client’s own buyers handle the perishable produce side.

Yes. Buyers work under your name and email domain, raise and release purchase orders inside your ERP within the approval limits you set, chase deliveries, resolve invoice and receipt mismatches with suppliers and manage supplier records. Spend authority is defined at onboarding, usually as a value threshold per order and per supplier, and anything above it routes to your approver in the system. Suppliers deal with a named member of your team; whether you tell them that person is offshore is your call, and most clients do.

Whatever you run. SAP (ECC and S/4HANA), Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Business Central are the most common ERPs; Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9 and Anaplan on the planning side; Coupa, Ariba and Jaggaer for procurement; and a great deal of Excel and Power BI in between. We recruit to your stack and version, and candidates are tested on a planning or purchasing scenario in a system like yours before you meet them. Staff work in your instance under named logins; nothing is rebuilt on our side.

By planning capacity with you ahead of the peak and adding dedicated staff on the same terms, rather than bringing in temporary workers who leave with the knowledge. A planner or buyer who has been through one cycle is far more valuable in the next, so clients in food, agriculture and seasonal retail keep a stable core team and grow it as volume grows. Cut-off times, supplier calendars and peak-period escalation paths are documented before the season starts, and shifts are aligned to your operating hours so the team is working while your plants and suppliers are.

We recruit for it. The Philippines has a deep pool of planners and buyers from food manufacturing, consumer goods, retail and electronics, many with APICS or CIPS training, which we can screen for if you ask, and we screen for experience in your category and your type of supply base. Your product knowledge, supplier history and commercial rules are transferred at onboarding and documented in your systems; industry familiarity shortens that ramp but does not replace it. You interview the shortlist and can set your own planning or buying exercise before choosing.

A US procurement specialist or production planner runs around $65,000 to $85,000 a year in base salary before benefits, and a supply chain or demand planning analyst $70,000 to $95,000. Australian salaries for the same roles are similar once converted to US dollars, and UK salaries run somewhat lower; in all three markets the local cost is several times the offshore rate. Sourcefit’s supply chain and procurement rates are $1,290 to $2,350 a month, all in, which annualizes to $15,480 to $28,200. The spread reflects the salary difference between a junior buyer and a forecasting analyst or category lead in the Philippines, passed through at cost.

Yes. One of our longest-running accounts is an Australian fresh produce grower and processor whose planning, buying, forecasting, finance, payroll, HR and IT help desk all run on a Sourcefit team of more than 25 people, including the team leaders. The planners and buyers there own production schedules and non-produce procurement day to day and report to the client’s supply chain managers. If you would rather not manage the function yourself, our Sightline model adds a Sourcefit team lead and quality layer that delivers against agreed SLAs for forecast accuracy, order cycle time and supplier performance, while the team still reports directly to you and works to your KPIs.

Against the metrics your supply chain already uses: forecast accuracy and bias, fill rate and stock-outs, inventory days, purchase order cycle time, supplier on-time-in-full, price variance against standard, and cost savings on indirect categories, all reported from your own ERP and planning tools. Weekly, the team reports what was planned, bought and expedited; monthly, outcomes against targets. Sourcefit’s training and quality team samples the work and coaches behind the team as part of the standard fee.

Yes. Australian operations get same-day overlap from the Philippines, which is why most of our food and agriculture clients are there. US clients choose a shifted schedule with three to four hours of overlap for planning meetings and supplier calls, or an overnight model where plans and orders are updated while you sleep and ready when your plants open. The UK is covered from South Africa or on a Philippine afternoon shift. Supplier cut-offs and plant schedules are mapped against the shift before day one.

Demand forecasting, reorder point calculation and exception flagging are increasingly done by the planning systems themselves, and a good planner runs those tools rather than competing with them. The judgment is in the exceptions: promotions, weather, supplier failures, new products and the trade-offs between service and stock that no model sees. We recruit planners who are fluent in the tools. If you want help deciding what to automate, WorkingAI, our managed AI service, consults on process optimization for supply chain teams, mapping the plan-to-order workflow, identifying where AI forecasting and automated replenishment fit, and sizing the team around the exceptions that still need people.