Trends in E-Sourcing with Debbie Wilson
Findings in brief from the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites
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- Buyers want e-sourcing integrated solutions that share data with related applications such as contract management and spend analysis, but they don't want responsibility for building and managing integration between disparate software applications; and,
- Sound application portfolio management policy, like supplier rationalization, encourages buyers to use as few vendors as possible to address overall requirements.
Figure 1 Source: Gartner
Figure 2 Source: Gartner
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