Engagement Models
For optimal results, choose an engagement model at the intersection of proven capabilities, real-world experience, quality management, and cost efficiency.
Contact usHow Your Business Benefits
Bring more speed and cost efficiency to your procurement organization
- Have your sourcing needs met out of multiple markets round-the-clock
- Interlock cost, capability, quality, and delivery time for optimal results
- Turbocharge procurement workflow while reducing uncertainties and ensuring high accountability
Decide on a delivery model that leaves you fully in control
- Fine-tune your growth strategies with insights delivered by onsite experts
- Tighten your grip on workflow and quality assurance processes
- Store your confidential data securely, meet tough compliance standards
Look for a combo of factors when signing service providers
- Carefully examine the provider’s performance record and financial history
- Look for in-demand certifications, make sure these are bonafide
- Choose vendors with a track record of delivering optimal quality/price tradeoff
Opt for pricing models that best suit your scenario
- Settle for time-based pricing of resources with predetermined skills
- Alternatively, tie fixed costs to successful completion of tasks
- Or pay skilled offshore professionals based on actual time spent
Place the focus on action and desired outcomes
- Map out the activity that is proposed to be outsourced
- Clinically determine potential direct and indirect cost savings
- Look for material evidence of efficiencies delivered in past projects
You actually benefit by involving third parties in the supply chain
- External consultants can provide an encouraging stimulus to in-house teams
- Third parties will free up your staff to focus on revenue generation
- Sourcing saves dollars, which can be ploughed back into business
Why Choose SpendEdge?
An expanding client base of 200+
Our client base, numbering more than 200, continues to expand with more Fortune 500s signing up for our premium research services. Our experts curate top-notch data to help CXOs make critical decisions aimed at significantly curbing financial, operational, and reputational risks. Our leading-edge platforms scour the supplier landscape for hard-to-find insights to enable businesses to preempt as well as respond to critical supply disruptions.
Pushing the limits of market intelligence
Our experts work relentlessly to push the envelope of contextual market research. The success of each client fills us with a certain sense of achievement. Behind every success story is 20 years of our demonstrable leadership in market trends research. This indelible expertise, further underpinned by our home-grown intelligent data tools, is sure to see you through the worst markets.
More ROI opportunities
Measuring returns on market research is hard, but doable. Many of our clients assess potential returns on the dollars they invest in market intelligence. Clients keep coming back to us because the evidence speaks for itself. Metrics indicate their relationship with our specialists is worth the time, money, and effort.
Everything in one place
Our platform was conceived in the first place as a one-stop for all things sourcing and procurement. So, clients looking for supply-side insights can find all of it in one place. Businesses keen on continuously improving interactions with their supplier network now source cutting-edge market intelligence from our all-under-one-roof hub.
Best-in-class competitor research
We deliver incisive analyses of competitors’ supplier networks, giving up-close views of how they are performing and their risk-taking tendencies. Our experts make sure to build in these and more insights on competitors into our intelligence reports. This is for CXOs who are keen to know what the competition is up to.
Quality as a strategic decision
Our experts deliver high-quality research outcomes, and they go the extra mile to make things happen fast while ensuring a hassle-free client experience. The research model we live by converges data from multiple sources. The idea is to spare no effort to help clients see the bigger picture of supply-side dynamics.
Featured Case Study
How SpendEdge Helped CPG Giant Streamline Contract Manufacturer Selection Process
Challenge: Faced with intense competition and the need to improve profit margins, our client turned to SpendEdge for assistance in overcoming their business challenges. One of the main strategies involved migrating cost-intensive operations to low-cost destinations.
Solution: Our team at SpendEdge assisted the client in streamlining their contract manufacturer selection process. Leveraging our expertise and market research methodology, we identified key contract manufacturers for the client’s ready-to-eat product line.
Result: The client successfully addressed their business challenges and achieved improved profit margins and reduced operating costs. All the while, also enhancing product quality and expanding manufacturing capabilities.
What engagement model would be the perfect fit for me?
It is really hard to pick between engagement models without a proper benefit analysis. Our specialists will help you find your way through the bewildering array of engagement models, so you can choose the one that makes eminent sense for your business.
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