Global Sourcing,Quoting & Costing Software Blog

March 27 Webinar – MEET OUR EXPERT GUEST PANELIST – Paolo Del Nibletto

With the March 27th Beyond Accuracy: How Distributors Are Transforming Customer Experience In The Digital Age Webinar, we are seeking to do more than providing you with timely information on how the digital age will impact your organization. We want to take your experience to the next level through a highly interactive discussion featuring [...]read more »

March 27 Webinar – MEET OUR EXPERT GUEST PANELIST – Harold (Hal) Good

With the March 27th Beyond Accuracy: How Distributors Are Transforming Customer Experience In The Digital Age Webinar, we are seeking to do more than providing you with timely information on how the digital age will impact your organization. We want to take your experience to the next level through a highly interactive discussion featuring [...]read more »

March 27 Webinar – MEET OUR EXPERT GUEST PANELIST – Brent LaLond

With the March 27th Beyond Accuracy: How Distributors Are Transforming Customer Experience In The Digital Age Webinar, we are seeking to do more than providing you with timely information on how the digital age will impact your organization. We want to take your experience to the next level through a highly interactive discussion featuring [...]read more »

The ‘Amazonization’ Of The Supply Chain by John Dickey

Back in 2013, I read an article that talked about the “Amazonization” of the supply chain. I know that six years seems like a lifetime – especially in the high tech world, and in some ways it is. However, with all the talk of the digital supply chain and the increasing focus on moving important [...]read more »

MARCH 27 – Webinar Notice: BEYOND ACCURACY , How Distributors Are Transforming Customer Experience In The Digital Age

Please join us our Panel of Industry experts on March 27th, 2019 at 9:30am EST for this exciting Webinar. You will learn how Distributors are leveraging technology to streamline their Supplier and Customer quoting process. According to the recently released IDC FutureScape Report, “By 2022, 60%+ of global GDP will be digitized, with growth in [...]read more »

Unpacking The Hidden Value Of The Digital Distributor Quoting Platform by Steve Wargalla

10 February 2019
in: Blog,Sourcing
Tags: distributor, quoting, Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing
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In today’s transactional world, it is easy to focus solely on availability and timely delivery of needed parts as a measurement of distribution platform effectiveness. While it makes sense that timely delivery is the ultimate performance metric, it is not the only one that you should be tracking. In other words, the story does not […]

Competitor Alignment: How A Distributor Quoting Platform Is The Missing Link In Your End-To-End Supply Chain

09 January 2019
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Tags: distributor, eSourcing, Strategic Sourcing
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During a recent interview, the question of how I would compare the QSTRAT Distributor Quoting Platform to the various solutions that are available through ERP or P2P providers came up. More specifically, do I consider them to be competitors? It was not the first time I have heard this question about our place or niche [...]read more »

e-Sourcing as a Key Component of your Spend Management Initiative – Part 3

15 July 2018
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Tags: eSourcing, Sourcing, Spend Management, Strategic Sourcing
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Part 3 – What an e-Sourcing System Should Provide State of the art e-sourcing systems provide many beneficial elements to support an organization’s direct and indirect procurement activity. Specifically, in support of Spend Management initiatives they should as a baseline: Deliver a robust and repeatable process for completing all sourcing activity, that minimizes manual effort, […]

e-Sourcing as a Key Component of your Spend Management Initiative – Part 2

15 June 2018
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Tags: eSourcing, Sourcing, Spend Management, Strategic Sourcing
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Part 2 – Best Practices Top performing organizations in the Spend Management discipline focus on creating a collaborative, repeatable and transferable process using systems/software in all areas of supply chain management. For the Sourcing function specifically, reliance on: spreadsheets for event data management and progress tracking, emails for RFQ communications, both internal and external, disconnected […]

e-Sourcing is a Key Component of Spend Management – Part 1

Part One of Three – Sourcing is the Missing Link! The challenge Spend Management initiatives are becoming more and more prevalent as organizations increase their focus on overall Supply Chain Management efficiencies. Spend initiatives focus on: sourcing strategy category expertise negotiation and purchasing execution Key business drivers of improved Spend Management for organizations include: Continued […]