> Provides a strategic context and enables
the planning phase of strategic sourcing and collaborative procurement.
It facilitates collaboration in identifying, framing and prioritizing
business issues and needs, which underlie the opportunity for
strategic cost management, thus strategic sourcing and procurement.
Through customized diagnostics
and eWorkshops, a rich database of business drivers helps the
buying organization or its agents quickly identify and agree on
the issues, commodities and services to be addressed and then
bid upon by the vendors/suppliers.
