Category Solutions - Services

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Services represent a broad sourcing category, one that is receiving more and more attention from sourcing teams as an area ripe for cost reduction. For many companies, facility and maintenance services, legal counsel, marketing and even wireless calling plans represent an area that benefit from consolidation, leveraged spend, and supplier rationalization. The efficient sourcing of these and other types of services can be extremely difficult to manage because of the non-price, value-added components inherent in a service provider's offerings.

Understanding the cost vs. value trade-offs when sourcing services can be extremely challenging. As such, services are an area where Expressive Commerce™ can be a highly effective strategy for identifying the absolute best mix of providers and services.

CombineNet Sourcing Solutions help organizations achieve the absolute best value from their service providers. Via Expressive Commerce, organizations can express their needs in more detail and encourage service providers to create offers and packages of services that take advantage of their strengths. ASAP's analysis power enables buyers to analyze these customized offers to find the optimal solution, reducing total contract costs and speeding up the sourcing cycle.

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