All Services

Services Overview

A Guarantee for your Return-On-Investment
If you’re responsible for an enterprise in need of sourcing implementation, or the individual buyer looking for ideas to drive the best deal terms, Our Team Members are ready to guide you through the first steps. And not only with technology. Category One offers commodity expertise and has partnerships with experts to help you strategize, aggregate and source difficult items like telecom, insurance and volatile commodities. Many services are available on a “gain-share” basis. 
 
Category One offers:

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RFX and Auction Basic and Advanced Training

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Spend analysis

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Item strategy and custom template creation

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Complete negotiation outsourcing

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Group purchasing identification and strategy

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RFX and Auction Basic and Advanced Training

 

Power Sourcing

Our full service option - Category One experts will run the entire sourcing event for you from beginning to end resulting, on average, in a 10 to 35% reduction on your invoice! The cost per auction is
based upon your savings—if you don’t save, you don’t pay!

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Enterprise Sourcing

Category One is one of the first e-sourcing companies to offer an ASP version, complete with an impressive offering of online training seminars and support.  This self-service solution allows almost any company’s purchasing department to be up and running negotiations in as little as 7 to 10 days.

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Project Sourcing

Category One can develop a comprehensive purchasing strategy that covers entire material groups, or it can implement single projects composed of individual process steps.

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Auction Engine

Powerful Negotiation Tool:
The Category One Auction Tool supports you in the definition of negotiation strategies, in the implementation of simple and complex price negotiations, and the analysis of offers.
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