Strategic Sourcing Application and Software Implementation

First, we will create a customized plan. Your strategic sourcing structure, be it a shared service, centralized, decentralized, or hybrid model will define the plan. K2 Sourcing can help create and implement the desired model including defining key structural options, processes, and reporting and governance.

K2 Sourcing will help you implement the plan setting up commodity structures, setting up users and permissions, and loading suppliers. This can include active supplier on boarding as well as building corporate RFP templates and event level messaging. We can load your templates or K2 Sourcing has several hundred customizable RFP templates that have been used by similar organizations.

Training is provided on-site or off-site. Training is never outsourced and is led by Implementation Managers that have run hundreds of RFPs on behalf of clients. Our implementation managers have over 15 years of strategic sourcing experience. Training culminates with one-on-one meetings with individual users to ensure their templates will maximize their efficiency and to make sure their first events are successful.

K2 Sourcing offers a transition solution that provides a rapid return on investment, builds robust processes, and captures user engagement.

In this model, the organization utilizes K2 Sourcing as their shared service center to run RFPs for your strategic sourcing and category managers. This allows us to set up the organization processes, commodities, RFP templates, and train users and suppliers.

Because K2 Sourcing has run thousands of RFPs and reverse auctions for clients, you can be confident your team will be learning a fantastic stakeholder engaging process. Once you are ready to internalize the process, K2 Sourcing will help you create and execute the plan to transition the work to your internal users.