Sourcing Automation Solutions : Bringing e-Sourcing-Desktop Integration

While sourcing automation technology (eRFX, eAuction) has great potential to deliver numerous enterprise benefits it has been challenging for developers to build eSourcing solutions that achieve a perfect balance between advanced functionality and usability.

Sourcing professionals need and want sourcing automation process tools that offer:

• Multivariable, weighted decision making – total cost of ownership vs. price only
• Ability to scale up or down to any event size or level of complexity – numbers of suppliers, user requirements and variables, line items and so forth
• Mixing of qualitative and quantitative inputs

And more..

But they also want those capabilities in easy-to-use packages that emulate (and/or integrate seamlessly with) powerful workhorse applications such as MS Excel, at which sourcing professionals have gained exceptional proficiency.