Expert Systems & Price Databases

Strategic Sourcing Expert Systems and Market Intelligence Databases

The keys to reaching success in the strategic sourcing process are to have the most up to date technology, resources, and to have access to current relevant market data.

对于大多数公司而言，维护关键数据的订阅和数据库的成本超过了单一采购计划中可以获得的益处。从事资源的公司不需要在这些信息中进行繁重的投雷竞技电竞平台资，因为它已经可以访问数据和信息，帮助您的采购项目成为成功。

S1 Overview

Below are some examples of the technologies, systems, and subscriptions that help make our projects successful:

Historical Commodity Database

Source One has been providingstrategic sourcing servicessince 1992.
During this time, Source One’s internal ERP system has collected critical data on thousands of suppliers, products, service levels and price points.

Source One uses this information in its strategic sourcing initiatives to quickly identify the supply base and price points for our clients and develops target savings opportunities.

Real Time Market Intelligence

Source One provides free online eSourcing solutions to hundreds of buyers throughout the world. It also has various private label electronic sourcing toolsets used by other Procurement Service Providers and industrial marketplaces. At any given time, Source One has access to dozens of live sourcing events including all specifications and bids.

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Source One is partnered with several Group Purchasing Organizations, and in fact, does the strategic sourcing for several GPO categories. When conducting a Strategic Sourcing event, Source One will also evaluate GPO offerings for its clients to see if they make more sense than a customized agreement direct with a supplier.

Expert Specification System

After learning the culture of our client’s organization and the team members involved, Source One sets out to ensure that a proper specification of the product or service is developed to assist in the sourcing event. In order to provide minimal disruption to our client’s subject matter experts, Source One’s team does the majority of the research necessary to build the specification.

Source One owns a proprietary database to assist in building specifications and subject matter expertise. This database contains a structured vocabulary of over 70,000 product and service terms including over 35,000 preferred industry terms, and 35,000 synonyms. The 70,000 terms are structured into multiple categories across all industries, and can be related to one another based on the product and service groupings it belongs to. Additionally, the database has 1.3 million attributes and values for classifying and identifying services down to a category level. The database also provides cross-mappings to the industry recognized UNSPSC, NAICS, and SIC classification systems.

Supplier Databases

除了拥有内部合格的供应商数据库列表以及网络上提供的免费服务，还有一个订阅多个供应商身份识别服务的特定类别和商品。雷竞技电竞平台使用我们的内部数据库和基于订阅的服务，来源可以构建和限定供应商列表，即传统的发现方法未被识别。雷竞技电竞平台

关税和指数

Source One takes the guess work out of contracting, and provides fact-based negotiations with suppliers.
In order to accomplish this, our team is trained to gain access to the latest industry tariffs and regulations.
Additionally, Source One subscribes to leading index publications to ensure that pricing for commodity services is consistent with industry recognized indexes, such as the metals, pulp and paper, and chemical marketplaces.

Benefits and Insurance Databases

Through our partners, Source One has access to a database of over 200 insurance and benefits brokers/advisors and administrators.
The database allows us to search for SIC categories and provide specialized matching. Additionally, we have visibility into a premium volume of 5,000 domestic and international Property/Casualty, Group Benefit and Service providers.

Tools and Technologies

Our source-to-pay team uses state of the art technologies and tools to accomplish its goals in strategic sourcing.
We are experienced in using multiple technology platforms and welcomes to opportunity to use the systems that our clients specify.
Looking for the right procurement tool set for your team? Corcentric’s end-to-end eSourcing solution could be the solution you need to maximize productivity and enable your supply management goals.

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