Online sourcing emphasizes deep career evaluation: freight buyers drive due diligence in e-sourcing.(Hubbell Corp. and Creative Forming Co.)

From: Purchasing | Date: July 14, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The advice that most often comes about when asking experts how to hold successful e-sourcing events: make sure that the bidders invited are qualified and ready for the event. As important as this advice is in the offline sourcing world, it's even more important in the much-compressed online bidding process.

In the logistics spend, that means evaluating the carriers' capabilities, performance and understanding of the business or lanes being bid on long before the online bidding event is held. Logistics buyers and managers that go into their first online bidding event ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Scandals may prompt more online insurance bidding.
Magazine article from: Employee Benefit News ; ...are recommending that employers use online bidding for their plan purchases to avoid any...employers have expressed interest in their online bidding products. The software used to be considered...Spitzer investigation. IE-Engine tackles online bidding at the employer level. It ...
City saves on tires through online bidding.
Magazine article from: Tire Business ; ...or government entity, Orbis said. The 30-minute online bidding event Orbis scheduled for the City of Chesapeake earlier...said the City of San Diego soon plans to hold an online bidding event for a tire contract. ``Some major tire manufacturers...
Reverse auction action; City saves $100,000 via e-commerce tire deal.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Rubber & Plastics News ; ...or government entity, Orbis said. The 30-minute online bidding event Orbis scheduled for the City of Chesapeake earlier...said the City of San Diego soon plans to hold an online bidding event for a tire contract. ``Some major tire manufacturers...
UTC saves 30% using reverse auctions to purchase services.(United Technologies Corp.)
Magazine article from: Purchasing ; ...procurement, and if online bidding works well for products...prefers competitive bidding event, a phrase he says...Jordano suggested using online bidding to help select a...professional services bidding event in UTC's history...effective enough for an online ...
Why FreeMarkets excites buyers.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Purchasing ; ...who set up successful online bidding events for big companies...companies create single-day online bidding events in which suppliers...a United Technologies' bidding event for $7.3 million of simple...successful competitive bidding event is in the preparation...block. ...
DEADLINE IS TODAY.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) ; Fort Mitchell -- Today at 4 is the deadline for companies to notify the city that they want to take part in an online bidding process for the city's purchase of a new ambulance. The online bidding will then take place at 10 a.m. Friday.
ONLINE BIDDING BAD PROCESS FOR CITY.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) ; ...advertised that it would be using an online bidding process to select a contractor for...to consider before deciding to use online bidding (also known as reverse auctions) to...third party to conduct the auction. The online bidding method may also lead to higher costs...
Contracts could go to online auctions.
Newspaper article from: Erie Times-News (Erie, PA) ; ...services. Legislation that would allow the online bidding recently passed the state House and...procurement. Pasquale said the county tried online bidding as an experiment about five years ago and ran into some problems. We tried online bidding twice and it didn't work, he said...
NYF receives long-term lot agreements. (Assembly Lines).
Magazine article from: Assembly ; ...to supply industry-standard fasteners and specialized hardware parts. The agreements were awarded following an online bidding event for eight 12-point industrial bolt and related assembly component lots, totaling about $1.6 million annually...
Home Builder to Test Online Auction Market with Sacramento, Calif., Homes.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News ; ...not why it will use an auction-like online bidding process next month to sell the 30 homes...normal offline sales. The development's online bidding, divided into two 15-home phases with...concern when asked how they felt about online bidding. Some feared Bay Area buyers, with...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Online sourcing emphasizes deep career ..."