- Purchasing is an important and at the same time critical function in multinational enterprises. Challenges are besides the growing purchasing volume the widespread distribution of organizational units and often a lack of coherence in those processes involving various organizational units. This becomes most evident in strategic procurement. Maturity assessments are a vital tool to create coherence in processes. In this contribution we provide a framework for the development of maturity assessments in strategic procurement for multinational enterprises. This framework covers all important aspects and topics to consider when developing a new procurement maturity assessment program for multinational corporations. From our company-background we also provide some casespecific examples how the framework can be brought to live.