Daily Archives: August 27, 2006

Optimization III: Why it’s time is finally here

Friday we noted the effectiveness of decision optimization and how it can enable early adopters to identify average incremental savings of 12% above those that basic, price-focused auctions alone have generated, according to Aberdeen’s recent “Success Strategies in Advanced Sourcing and Negotiations: Optimizing Total Costs and Total Value for the Next Wave of e-Sourcing Savings” in June of 2005. Yesterday we discussed the factors that combined to downplay decision optimization’s importance to a successful e-Sourcing process. Today we will discuss … More