Crafty Systems can provide event support for your upcoming Auction or RFx. Whether you are sourcing electricity, office supplies, DLT Tapes, telephone poles or hotel and travel services, we work with your sourcing specialists and suppliers to ensure a successful event by providing the following services:
Pre-event strategy consulting – Crafty Systems works with your category experts to make sure that the event you are planning is configured for success. Are you choosing the best event configuration? Are you asking the right questions that you need to make the best decisions? Have you modeled the full nature of the relationship with your current and future suppliers in your event?
Pre-event Supplier Training: An event can only be successful when it presents a level playing field for all of the participants. This means both understanding the items and situations on which they are bidding, and easily navigating through the bidding platform so they can focus on the event and not how to place their bid. Crafty Systems provides pre-event training for your suppliers so that they come prepared to the actual ‘live’ event.
Live Auction Event Support: During the actual event, suppliers and event managers may have questions or need prompt assistance during a time-critical period.
Post-Event Analysis: Once the results are in, they must be interpreted properly in order to understand which choice might be best in a given situation. Remember, the lowest-cost supplier is not always the best choice. Other factors should be modeled in your e-Sourcing event to make sure that you are making the optimal decision based on the information known.