{"id":2143,"date":"2006-04-25T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2006\/04\/25\/esourcing-solutions-with-problems\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:28:59","slug":"esourcing-solutions-with-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/esourcing-solutions-with-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"eSourcing:  Solutions With Problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked by a visitor to NLPA: \u201cHow can an eSourcing services solution help mitigate a buyer\u2019s concern on quality from vendors they haven\u2019t worked with before?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The key to mitigating a buyer\u2019s concern about ending up with a poor quality vendor after an eSourcing event is simple: rely on good purchasing practice, not just the technology. Pre-qualify all bidders and don\u2019t invite any bidder that fails to meet your pre-qualification standards.<\/p>\n<p>Purchasers often make the mistake of not doing offline pre-qualification because they are so enamored with the online aspect of sourcing. Just because you are using new technology (which I strongly advocate) doesn\u2019t mean that you should abandon more traditional best practices that still apply today.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to learn more about eSourcing, you may want to consider the online mini-course eSourcing 101.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to learn more about supplier qualification methods, you may want to consider the online class <a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/course\/view.php?id=6\">14 Purchasing Best Practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Recommended Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\/eprocurement-today\/\">eProcurement Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\/eprocurement-system\/\">eProcurement System<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/eprocurement-adoption\/\">Is Partial eProcurement Adoption Right for Your Company?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\">Intelligent Procurement: How Can AI Expand Value?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><b>NLPA Learning<\/b><\/a><b>:<\/b>\u00a0Looking for authoritative procurement templates, tools, webinars, and more? Stop trying to create resources from scratch and start taking advantage of having exactly what you need right at your fingertips in\u00a0NLPA Learning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked by a visitor to NLPA: \u201cHow can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>eSourcing: Solutions With Problems? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/esourcing-solutions-with-problems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"eSourcing: Solutions With Problems? 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