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CombineNet ASAP®: Better and Faster RFP Management with our Advanced Sourcing Product
Sourcing teams today often must choose between two less-than-ideal practices: Either
use traditional e-sourcing/sourcing suite tools not designed to handle the vast
majority of sourcing bid and event requirements, or fall back to the use of spreadsheets,
email, and other desktop tools that consume vast time and resources to create, collect,
aggregate, analyze, and manage.
Providing an RFP management solution, CombineNet's best-in-class e-sourcing product gives you our RFxpress wizard, the industry’s most user-friendly, intuitive process for rapidly creating online RFIs and RFPs for your sourcing events — covering any category of spend and no matter how complex the requirements.
In just six easy steps, CombineNet ASAP's RFxpress tool lets buyers quickly create, customize, and launch their online sourcing events, and can even leverage your existing Excel bid sheets or templates. It provides buyers with a user-friendly starting point to become more productive and make better strategic sourcing decisions. And while it streamlines and simplifies the sourcing cycle, it enables the user to easily set up enhanced bid collection including non-price factors using Expressive Bidding®, supplier assessment criteria, and scenario analysis.
CombineNet ASAP’s RFxpress for a Rapid RFx Solution
- Upload existing Excel-based bid sheets to create a new online sourcing event
- Upload supplier information
- Create RFI/supplier assessment questions
- Design the cost models
- Launch the online sourcing bid event
The RFxpress feature also provides a number of pre-configured scenario rules and settings based on common sourcing scenario analysis requirements. Extensive Awards Scenario Optimization capabilities are possible in the CombineNet ASAP product.
With CombineNet ASAP as an RFP management solution, buyers become more productive by automating the manual process
of sending Excel bid sheets to suppliers (or as attachments via e-sourcing suites),
aggregating and consolidating the supplier bid responses, and conducting award analysis.
With a more efficient process in place, buyers can focus on strategic supply management
activities within their organizations.
Further, RFx templates created with the RFxpress feature can be used immediately
in live sourcing events. Customers also benefit from our Template Management, which allows them to reuse,
modify, and share previous CombineNet ASAP sourcing events as RFx templates.
Learn more about our RFP management solution and how to
get started with CombineNet ASAP.