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CombineNet ASAP^®: Advanced Sourcing Solutions for Better E-Sourcing

CombineNet, Inc. offers a best-in-class E-Sourcing solution. Our web-based sourcing software product, CombineNet ASAP® (Advanced Sourcing Application Platform), improves the way organizations source their entire range of spend categories. CombineNet ASAP takes spend under management to the next level by driving significant value improvements to all sourcing events and by addressing spend categories that general E-Sourcing suites, RFX and E-Auction tools cannot. CombineNet ASAP also easily complements and integrates with your existing software investments and processes, giving you even better overall ROI.

With CombineNet ASAP, our customers can quickly and easily create, launch, manage, and modify sourcing events of any size, scale, or complexity. Our advanced sourcing product streamlines, automates, and innovates your simple, straightforward bidding events yet also enables transformational strategies for the largest, most complex global spend needs.

CombineNet ASAP:

• Is a web-based (Software as a Service) advanced sourcing product used by sourcing teams and their suppliers.
• Speeds, simplifies, and centralizes the creation and management of sourcing events of any size, scale, or complexity.
• Improves sourcing for any spend category (direct materials, indirect materials, transportation, services).

To learn how CombineNet’s Advanced Sourcing product can meet your sourcing needs, contact us today.

Advantages of CombineNet ASAP:

• Coverage of spend – Only CombineNet ASAP delivers the flexibility and scale required to conduct e-sourcing events that address all of your strategic sourcing needs. From the routine, to the largest and most complex, CombineNet ASAP has been tested and proven to provide the speed, efficiency, and advanced capabilities needed to tackle any spend category.
• Ease of adoption – CombineNet ASAP provides the ease of use, event flexibility, and support options to drive rapid adoption across your organization, from power users to infrequent users. Wizard-based guides for RFX/E-Auction configuration, event creation, bid analysis, and other features en¬able fast, easy adoption. Unparalleled flexibility and scale supports any event size or scope to address even the most complex of spends. And extensive support options are available to provide expert guidance along every step of the e-sourcing journey.
• More supplier value and cost savings – Our unique Expressive Bidding^® supports an expressive marketplace between buyers and suppliers. Suppliers can bid to their strengths and capabilities in significantly greater detail than with other sourcing tools, which reduces costs while increasing supply chain efficiency and introducing innovation from the market.
• Better, faster decision-making – Our proprietary optimization engine handles robust "what if?" scenario development using extensive data inputs that other sourcing tools cannot. Our customers make better awards decisions as a result, balancing supplier cost, value, risk, and innovation with internal business rules and preferences, using any combination of data.

CombineNet ASAP is the ideal advanced e-sourcing solution to help you get more spend under management, providing the advanced capabilities you need to support all of your e-sourcing strategies while making major gains in sourcing productivity, efficiency, and ultimately, the best award decisions that balance cost, value and risk to your organization.

Key Components of Our CombineNet ASAP Sourcing Product Include:

• RFxpress — rapidly create and populate e-sourcing events (RFI, RFP, E-Auction) with item and supplier information using a simple 6-step wizard
• Expressive Bidding^® — improving bid collection with greater flexibility and non-price factors
• Expressive Feedback — provide expressive and timely information to suppliers during bidding cycles to guide them towards more strategic and competitive RFP and E-Auction responses
• Scenario Builder^SM — quickly create robust "What If?" bid analysis scenarios and support better stakeholder alignment
• Analysis and Optimization — arrive at the best sourcing award decisions based on costs, value, risk profiles, business rules and other preferences
• Sourcing Event Management — support the full scope of event management needs
• Template Management — improve overall productivity, re-use existing RFI/RFP/E-Auction configurations, and scale to other sourcing events and spend categories
• Reporting and Data Management — increase visibility and improve decision making with robust reports on event activity and scenario results with Excel-like navigation and reporting
• Dashboards — get actionable views of spend, savings and event activity by category, user and timeframe

For more information on CombineNet’s best-in-class E-Sourcing product, find out how to get started with CombineNet ASAP.