Sourcing Management

Manage sourcing events leveraging our network of 1500+ datasets, 200+ economists and 5000+ information and supply chain sourcing industry experts

With deep in-house commodity and category expertise, industry insights, and pricing data across all direct and indirect spend categories, we can execute best-in-class tactical and strategic sourcing events on behalf of our clients. Whether its running reverse auctions for tactical buying or more complex direct commodities, we have access to all the relevant industry expertise, commodity and category insights and expertise needed to schedule, plan and execute sourcing events.

We follow best-practice sourcing methodologies aimed at optimizing and extracting the full value aligned with your cost optimization plan.

Do you need to execute tactical or strategic sourcing events? We can help!

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Sourcing Strategy Development: We take advantage of our supplier cost modelling and understanding of the drivers behind supplier’s cost structures to set your category management plans include
- Category & Industry Data
- Commodity Pricing
- Price Indices
- Purchase & Pricing Models
- Forecast Models
Supplier & footprint analysis: We utilize our location risk analytics, supplier risk vetting process, and market sizing expertise to identify the right partners and locations to source from. We evaluate:
- Micro and macro-economic climate and outlook
- Risk and sustainability
- Competitive company analysis
Sourcing Execution considering:
- Sourcing event timelines and tactics
- Managing the sourcing event and suppliers
- Negotiate with suppliers
- Recommended outcome
Where relevant, we could consider demand aggregation with similar categories

We leverage:

1,500+ datasets or research/information products.
We have 200+ economists,
5000+ information & industry experts producing
600+ insights daily.
3,000+ commodity prices and labor rates forecasts for over 58 countries
500,000 Historic price data

Build an intelligent supply chain with our holistic solution

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Spend Analytics

Analyze your spend against historical and forecasted spend for benchmarking and opportunity identification.

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Category Management

Develop category management plans for when, where and how to buy with our supply chain solution

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Logistics Management

Understand your freight demand forecasts for the next 5, 15, or 30 years

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Supplier Management

A centralized hub for third party due diligence and supplier risk management

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Supply Risk Management

Enhance end-to-end coverage of political, violent, sovereign, banking and investment risk management worldwide to ensure supply chain security.

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Environmental, Social & Governance

Utilize an integrated suite of ESG solutions and strategy to support your unique requirements

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Contract Management

Manage the entire contract life cycle process from initiation, negotiation to contract renewal

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Supplier performance management

Track supplier performance against (contract

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Experts

John Anton

John has expertise in the ferrous metals industry, he is responsible for evaluating the outlook for steel. He also specializes in forecasting commodities and works closely with the Automotive, Construction, Energy and Economics teams at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Steel demand is linked to outlooks from these key sectors. In turn, the profitability of these sectors can rise or fall depending on the price and availability of steel.Prior to joining S&P Global (now part of S&P Global) in 1995, he was in the private practice of law as well as an economist and statistician for the United States Department of Labor in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).John received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Florida State University, US, and a Juris Doctor from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, US.

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Emily Crowley

An expert in North American labor markets and a specialist in labor supply, demand and wage escalation, Emily is a key contributor to the semi-annual Global Manufacturing and Global Construction Compensation reports and to ongoing research of labor markets on the US Gulf Coast and Western Canada. Her research provides an analytical framework to compare labor cost and escalation on a global basis.Emily received her Masters of Science in Applied Economics from the Johns Hopkins University where she focused in quantitative methods.

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Sophie Malin

Sophie Malin is a Senior Economist with the S&P Global Market Intelligence Pricing and Purchasing Service, responsible for analysis and forecasting relating to the EU and APAC labour markets. Sophie received her Bsc in Economics from the University of Swansea, with a year studying business, law and economics at the University of Alberta. Previously, she worked at Intellect SEEC, an Insurance Technology provider.

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KC Chang

His expertise resides in the commodity sector, where he is responsible for the nonferrous and precious metals forecasts including platinum and palladium. His latest research focuses on supply chain risks and opportunities for minor metals such as cobalt, lithium and rare earth elements used in the growing electric vehicle industry. In the past, KC worked on several projects focused on global cost analysis for clients in the energy and mining sector. These projects helped clients estimate capital costs and develop cost-effective procurement solutions for key materials and services. In addition to his work with clients, KC provides commodity market commentary to various news organizations including Bloomberg, Reuters, National Public Radio, Kitco Metals, Metal Bulletin and the American Metal Market.KC received his M.A. in economics and his M.S. in statistics from the George Washington University. He also received his B.com in finance and mathematics from McGill University.

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Sourcing Management

Manage sourcing events leveraging our network of 1500+ datasets, 200+ economists and 5000+ information and supply chain sourcing industry experts

As part of this process, we provide

Build an intelligent supply chain with our holistic solution

Spend Analytics

Category Management

Logistics Management

Supplier Management

Supply Risk Management

Environmental, Social & Governance

Contract Management

Supplier performance management

Experts

John Anton

Emily Crowley

Sophie Malin

KC Chang