According to The Hackett Group’s research, companies devote an average of 16 full-time staff to the sourcing process for every $1 billion in spend, and half of all strategic sourcing time is spent in the supplier evaluation and negotiation phase.
The good news is that solutions already exist—respondents noted that digital tools speed up overall sourcing process cycle times by 30% and reduce data-collection errors, leading to cost savings.
Read this report by The Hackett Group for strategies on how to: