Current Situation
Complex categories, from services to software to project-based sourcing, are manual and data intensive, taking excessive time to build templates, RFX, and contracts.
Goals and Objectives
Augmented complex sourcing with automated and real-time supplier identification and selection to compete for complex category sourcing activities, source selection, and augmented award and contracts by employees
Technology Deployed
Enterprise hardware, personal devices, cloud, Big Data/analytics, mobile, applications, connectivity services, cognitive, next-generation security
Use Case Summary
Augmented complex category sourcing has real-time, complete, complex category sourcing plans and recommendations. Awards and contract completion are augmented with employee involvement to complete each sourcing event.