Strategic Sourcing
Ask the market, score what comes back, and award it on the weights declared beforehand. A new event grows out of the last one.
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Workspace
Draft & Derive
Build an event out of the last one, the contract that is running out, or an order that keeps repeating — then read the document it produced, with every place that needs a person marked beside the paragraph it is about.
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Sourcing Events
RFI, RFP and RFQ. Every response is scored and ranked as it arrives — on price, lead time, payment terms and any criteria the evaluators mark — and awarding against the ranking has to be said out loud.
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Responses
What each supplier offered, and how it scored on the weights declared before the event opened.
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Invitations
Every supplier asked to respond to a sourcing event, and whether they have. Invite more on the event itself, under Invited suppliers.
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Records
e-Auctions
A reverse auction only moves one way, and only by the declared decrement — the rule lives in the database, so no bid gets in by another door.
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Records
Document Templates
The skeleton each kind of event is written from. A merge field the platform can answer is filled in; one it cannot stays visible as a placeholder.
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Report
Sourcing Pipeline
What each event drew and what it saved against its estimate.
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