Strategic sourcing is the way of recognizing, appraising, negotiating, and execution the best combination of services that best help the aim of the firm.
Worldwide integration and dependence of firm in the world economy has inserted to the sourcing daunting faced by the firm. Today procurement's part is not to source the service/product from the least expensive supplier or for that matter organize a reverse auction and award the bid to the very low cost supplier.
Times today require procurement to seek at suppliers universally and appraise the suppliers on a lot of parameters which could have an effect on the working of the firm. This article shows the value of spend analytics for firm preparing of the way of strategic sourcing.
Spend analysis is nothing but the method of collating and extracting spend data, observing it and accessing it for reporting opportunities and trends. Spend analysis software solution allows end users to scan by volumes of data to search a savings chance. However before searching a savings opportunity, the first step for firms to get visibility into spending, is to place a common list of all the purchases created within the firm. A clean source of data is vital for a victorious spend analysis output.

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