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Category Sourcing Scorecard

January 24, 2024

Guest Article: 3 Best-Practice Tips for Running Procurement Auctions

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Blake Wetzel, CEO of AIQ, a leader in procurement consulting and e-auctions. AIQ provides an end-to-end service, from performing the spend... Read more
June 20, 2019

Throwback Thursday: Sourcing Waves

Publisher’s Note: In 2019, Ardent Partners is celebrating 10 years of delivering “Research with Results” to Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) and other readers of this site, including published reports, eBooks, presentations, insights, articles and... Read more
February 4, 2013

Driving Savings: How to Use the Category Sourcing Scorecard

In 2012, our Category Sourcing Scorecard series was one of the most popular. As a reminder the Scorecard was a tool developed by Ardent Partners to help sourcing teams prioritize... Read more
December 19, 2012

Category Sourcing Scorecard – User Instructions

As I mentioned last time, Ardent Partners’ Category Sourcing Scorecard is now available by clicking here (reg. required) and brought to you by BravoSolution. For those of you who have... Read more
December 17, 2012

The Category Sourcing Scorecard is Now Available

Earlier this year, I wrote a series of posts discussing the creation of a Category Sourcing Scorecard. Today, I am pleased to announce that Ardent Partners’ Category Sourcing Scorecard is... Read more
July 11, 2012

The Category Sourcing Scorecard – Summary

The Category Sourcing Scorecard series, which was published last month, introduced the key inputs to a “virtual” tool or framework that teams could use to build out their sourcing pipelines.... Read more
June 29, 2012

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Category Specific Factors

Yesterday, we completed our discussion of the unique buying factors that help determine a category’s suitability for sourcing. Today we tackle the final subset of considerations for the virtual Category... Read more
June 27, 2012

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Buying Factors (II)

Today, Part 2 of the Buying Factors that impact (1) the ease in which a category may be sourced (2) the likelihood of favorable results and (3) the timing and... Read more
June 26, 2012

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Buying Factors (I)

There are many different factors that can influence (1) the ease in which a category may be sourced (2) the likelihood of favorable results and (3) the timing and organizational... Read more
June 15, 2012

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Supplier Factors

We’re using the ocean waves and surfing images during the creation of our virtual Category Sourcing Scorecard because the purpose of this tool is to help sourcing teams vet and... Read more