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INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

  • Retail, Food, & Restaurant
  • Manufacturing & Packaged Goods
  • Education & Life Sciences
  • Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
  • Financial & Banking Services
  • Business & Consulting Services
  • Public Sector & Municipalities
  • Industrial, Mining, & Construction

PROJECT & CATEGORY EXPERIENCE

  • Transportation & Logistics
  • IT Products & Services
  • Admin, HR, & Professional Services
  • Facilities Mgmt, Supplies & Services
  • Marketing & Print Services
  • Direct Materials & Packaging
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VALUE BY INDUSTRY

Retail, Restaurant, & Food Organizations

Retail organizations that maintain a multi-location facility and distribution footprint have been core to EC Sourcing Group’s client mix since inception. This includes fashion, consumer products, automotive, food, and both corporate and franchise-owned restaurant groups. Also included are organizations that might manufacture their own merchandise or food products.
Our stakeholders across these organizations include Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations leaders. The snapshot to the right provides detail on the scope and size we serve across this industry and below are example value use cases.
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$500M – $22B

Revenue Range

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600 – 20k

Volume of Suppliers

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2k – 420k

# of Employees

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7% – 32%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 5,000

# of Facilities

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5 – 30

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

Open IX & API, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, SSAE 16 Type II, Multi-Factor Security, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

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$500M – $16B

Revenue Range

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200 – 15k

Volume of Suppliers

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2k – 200k

# of Employees

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4% – 26%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 300

# of Facilities

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5 – 30

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

DFARS 252.204-7012, NIST SP 800-171, FISMA-High, Open IX and API, SSAE 16 Type II, Multi-Factor, GDPR, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

Manufacturing & Packaged Goods

We partner with an array of global manufacturing organizations from consumer products companies, chemical manufacturers, medical devices companies, and defense contractors. Optimizing dimensions such as risk, diversity, direct material dimensions, and transportation modes across their supplier is a big area our solutions are focused to support. Our solutions are also compliant with federal risk and global IP related requirements for SaaS-deployed procurement & sourcing solutions.
Our stakeholders across these organizations include Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Facilities, and Operations Leaders. The snapshot to the left provides detail on the scope and size we serve across this industry and below are example use cases.

Education & Life Sciences

Education, research, and life sciences organizations across both the public and private sector leverage our solutions to improve their supplier performance and to optimize their competitive bids. This includes higher ed and research institutions with significant R&D spends. It also includes organizations that have an array of supplier risk and diversity requirements as well.
Our stakeholders across these organizations we usually support include Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, IT, and Finance leaders and their teams.. The snapshot to the right provides detail on the scope and size we serve across this industry and below are example value use cases.
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$500M – $12B

Revenue Range

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800 – 25k

Volume of Suppliers

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2k – 40k

# of Employees

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8% – 22%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 50

# of Facilities

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10 – 30

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

Sealed Bids, FISMA-High, HIPAA/HITECH, Open IX and API, NIST SP 800-171, SSAE 16 Type II, Multi-Factor, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

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$500M – $15B

Revenue Range

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300 – 18k

Volume of Suppliers

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2k – 30k

# of Employees

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5% – 25%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 30

# of Facilities

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6 – 50

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

FISMA-High, HIPAA/HITECH, GDPR, Open IX and API, NIST SP 800-171, SSAE 16 Type II, Multi-Factor, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

Our healthcare client partners include hospitals, at home health clinics, health service and financial health institutions. Also included are biotech and pharma organizations with lab and engineering projects. As part of our standard alignment to this industry our approach and our IT security protocols are all HIPPA compliant even though we do not handle patient related data information across our technology systems. Health insurance providers are also included in this segment as well as the financial services that are organizations referenced below.
Our stakeholders across these organizations include Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, IT and Finance leaders. The snapshot to the left provides detail on the scope and size we serve across this industry and below are example value use cases.

Financial, Insurance, & Banking Services

Financial Services, insurance, and banking institutions comprise a significant percentage of our client partner mix. This includes those organizations with a multi-location banking facilities footprint as well as those operating from a single corporate location extending virtual and on-line services to their clients. As you can imagine, our IT and risk protocols adhere to best-in-class regulatory and security standards for deployment of SaaS-based eSourcing and procurement technology solutions.
Our stakeholders across these organizations include Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, IT and Finance. The snapshot to the right provides detail on the scope and size we serve across this industry and below are example value use cases.
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$500M – $12B

Revenue Range

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1K – 18k

Volume of Suppliers

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2k – 420k

# of Employees

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8% – 22%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 200

# of Facilities

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8 – 25

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

FISMA-High, HIPAA/HITECH, Open IX and API, NIST SP 800-171, SSAE 16 Type II, PCI DSS, Multi-Factor, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

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$10M – $2B

Revenue Range

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300 – 40k

Volume of Suppliers

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50 – 10k

# of Employees

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5% – 30%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 10

# of Facilities

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10 – 100

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

DFARS 252.204-7012, FISMA-High, GDPR, HIPAA/HITECH, Open IX and API, NIST SP 800-171, SSAE 16 Type II, PCI DSS, Multi-Factor, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

Business & Consulting Services

Business services organizations as well as IT and software providers leverage our solutions. Also included in this segment are professional services & consulting organizations. A large portion of our clients in this industry use our solutions to help identify procurement-related savings opportunities and then to execute cost optimization programs. Some of these organizations elect to hand off aspects of our solution to their internal clients while others manage the full source-to-contract S2C life cycle as part of their services offering while using our technology. To meet the needs of this segment, it is imperative that our tools work for any industry specific requirements and in any geographic location.
Our stakeholders across these organizations include procurement consultants, supply chain subject matter experts, sourcing practitioners, and any organization looking to optimize costs to other organizations.

Public Sector & Municipalities

Entities within the public sector such as those funded by city, county, state, or federal government municipalities also leverage our solutions to meet their supplier requirements as well as to manage fair and balanced competitive sourcing protocols while optimizing the cost to the organizations and the taxpayers that fund them. Our solutions adhere to supplier diversity program standards as well as all government mandated sourcing and procurement policy protocols such as sealed bids or separation of financial proposals from objective bid-scoring criteria.
Our stakeholders across these organizations include Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, IT, Finance, and elected officials supporting these areas. The snapshot to the right provides detail on the scope and size we serve across this industry and below are example value use cases.
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$500M – $3B

Revenue Range

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200 – 10k

Volume of Suppliers

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500 – 10k

# of Employees

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6% – 32%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 10

# of Facilities

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5 – 15

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

Sealed Bids, Public Bids, DFARS 252.204-7012, FISMA-High, HIPAA/HITECH, Open IX and API, NIST SP 800-171, SSAE 16 Type II, Multi-Factor, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

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$1B – $140B

Revenue Range

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1k – 25k

Volume of Suppliers

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2k – 130k

# of Employees

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8% – 28%

Typical Savings Range

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1 – 400

# of Facilities

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10 – 100

Typical # of Data Sources

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Top Supplier & IT Considerations:

DFARS 252.204-7012, FISMA-High, HIPAA/HITECH, GDPR, Open IX and API, NIST SP 800-171, SSAE 16 Type II, Multi-Factor, Diversity, Financial, Insurance, and Cyber Security-related Risk Requirements

Industrial, Mining, & Construction

Industrial organizations with heavy equipment and construction related expenses also comprise a significant number of our global client mix. This includes some of the largest engineering and mining holding companies in the world. Many of these organizations have procurement and sourcing project spends driven by their own project-based sales and revenue activities which can make forecasting spend leverage across suppliers and categories challenging at times for them. Our solutions assist with optimizing competitive sourcing while maintaining a great experience for the supplier partners for these clients.
Our stakeholders across these organizations include Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, IT, Engineering, and Finance. The snapshot to the left provides detail on the scope and size we serve across this industry and below are example value use cases.
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VALUE BY PROJECT

Transportation
& Logistics

  • Truckload
  • LTL
  • Small Parcel
  • Ocean
  • 3PLs
  • Fleet
  • Air Freight
  • Courier
  • Armored Car

IT Products
& Services

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Cloud Services
  • Peripherals
  • Networking
  • Telecom
  • IT Consulting
  • Servers
  • Data Centers

Admin, HR &
ProfessionalSvcs

  • Office Supplies
  • Temp Labor
  • HR Benefits
  • Consulting
  • Legal
  • Doc Mgmt
  • Accounting
  • Inventory Audit
  • Screens

Facilities
Management

  • MRO Supplies
  • Janitorial
  • Security
  • Mat Handling
  • Outsourced FM
  • Landscaping
  • Pest Control
  • Energy
  • Dining

Marketing
& Print

  • Agencies
  • Promotional
  • Remarketing
  • Print
  • Signage
  • Displays
  • Direct Mail
  • Events
  • SEO Services

Direct Mats
& Packaging

  • Metals
  • Resins
  • Plastics
  • Lumber
  • Foods
  • Ingredients
  • Chemicals
  • Packaging
  • Poly Bags

Solution Details Estimating Impact

Each client partner is at a different milestone along their digital and procurement transformational journeys.
To measure the expected impact of our solutions, understanding your current baseline & potential is key.

EC Spend

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CONSIDERATIONS

  • Current State Visibility
  • Systems & Data Leveraged
  • Data Quality & Categorization
  • Tech & Process Leveraged
  • Time & Resources Baseline
  • Compliance Baseline

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Leverage New Spend
  • ID New Savings
  • ID Compliance Savings
  • ID Demand Mgmt Areas
  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Increased Influence

EC Supplier

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CURRENT CONSIDERATIONS

  • Volume of Suppliers
  • Process for Onboarding
  • Time & Resources Baseline
  • Process for Doc Mgmt Today
  • Process for Communication
  • Compliance Baseline

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Supplier Risks Mitigated
  • Supplier Cost Avoidance
  • Improved Compliance

EC eSourcing

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CONSIDERATIONS

  • Addressable Spend Available
  • Degree of Market Volatility
  • Category Roadmap & Plan
  • Past Sourcing History & Rigor
  • Existing Category
  • Current Tools  LeveragedConstraints

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Category Savings
  • Improved SLAs
  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Risk Avoidance
  • More Spend Under Mgmt
  • Other Cost Avoidance

EC Contracts

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CURRENT CONSIDERATIONS

  • Volume of Contracts
  • Scope of Contract Types
  • Time & Resources Baseline
  • Compliance Baseline
  • Current Tools Leveraged

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Improved Pricing
  • Improved SLAs
  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Improved Compliance
  • Risk Avoidance
  • Other Cost Avoidance

EC Auctions

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CONSIDERATIONS

  • Spend Available for Auction
  • Auction History & Baseline
  • Time & Resources Baseline
  • Current Tools Leveraged

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Improved Pricing
  • Improved SLAs
  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Risk Avoidance
  • Other Cost Avoidance

EC Workflow

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CURRENT CONSIDERATIONS

  • Non-Digital Process State
  • Time & Resources Baseline
  • Communications Scope
  • Volume of Stakeholders
  • Risk Exposure Currently

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Risk Avoidance
  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Improved Compliance
  • Increased Scalability

EC Optimize

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CONSIDERATIONS

  • Process for Award Scenarios
  • Time & Resources Baseline
  • Scope of Scenarios Today
  • Current Tech Leveraged

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Improved Outcomes
  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Risk Avoidance
  • Other Cost Avoidance

EC Insights

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CURRENT CONSIDERATIONS

  • Current KPIs Tracked
  • Current Analysis Baseline
  • Actionable Insights Today
  • Level of Decentralized Data
  • Volume of Stakeholders

TOP ROI AREAS

  • Time & Resources Saved
  • Improved Insights to Action
  • Increased Influence

Recent Benchmarks for Impact

Automation & Efficiency Gains

Impact on Data Analysis Process

Impact on Data Analysis Process

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

$7,000 – $42,000

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

140

Avg Annual Hrs Saved / Per FTE

Key Activity (Time Saved)

  • Data Collection (10 hrs)
  • Consolidation (20 hrs)
  • Data Organization (40 hrs)
  • Data Retrieval (20 hrs)
  • Data Analysis (35 hrs)
  • Refresh / Expansion (20 hrs)
Impact on Project Management

Impact on Project Management

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

$30,000 – $180,000

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

600

Avg Annual Hrs Saved / Per FTE

Key Activity (Time Saved)

  • Specification Process (40 hrs)
  • Approval (15 hrs)
  • Milestone Mgmt (25 hrs)
  • Control Procedures (25 hrs)
  • Project Management (30 hrs)
  • Communications (20 hrs)
Impact on Contract Visibility & Management

Impact on Contract Visibility & Management

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

$24,000 – $144,000

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

480

Avg Annual Hrs Saved / Per FTE

Key Activity (Time Saved)

  • Contract Metadata Set Up (10 hrs)
  • Contract Communications (25 hrs)
  • Contract Alerts (12 hrs)
  • Contract Retrieval (50 hrs)
  • Contract Vendor and Category-related insights (18 hrs)
Impact on Supplier-related Insights

Impact on Supplier-related Insights

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

$25,000 – $150,000

ROI based on $50-$300 rate

500

Avg Annual Hrs Saved / Per FTE

Key Activity (Time Saved)

  • Dimensions Creation (25 hrs)
  • Document Management (20 hrs)
  • Third-party Inquiries (22 hrs)
  • Supplier Questionnaires (50 hrs)
  • Supplier Scoring (6 hrs)
  • Corrective Actions (12 hrs)
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