Raising the stakes for eSourcing

A leading Zycus iSource customer from the industrial automation and control industry recently and successfully executed an eRFQ spanning some 7,500+ line items and 98 suppliers worldwide, leveraging the insights from our eSourcing transformation Whitepaper. The global competitive cost discovery and sourcing efficiency represented in such a large-scale event was unimaginable just a few years ago before eSourcing solutions had evolved to their current state of the art. It is a sign of the times in which sourcing teams push the envelope on global eSourcing adoption, utilization and innovation.

This eSourcing transformation Whitepaper highlights the unique challenges faced by sourcing professionals are as follows:

• Speed
• Global ubiquity
• High volume & complexity
• Disintegration
• Transitory
• Volatility

With so many complex challenges, it is no surprise that sourcing team that have been among the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of sourcing process automation (e-Sourcing) solutions. May be reaching a level of e- Sourcing maturity that is outgrowing their early solution deployments