Comments on: Source from Ebay…the new strategic sourcing option http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/08/01/source-from-ebay%e2%80%a6the-new-strategic-sourcing-option/ The source of information and best practices in strategic sourcing. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:12:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mini Seal http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/08/01/source-from-ebay%e2%80%a6the-new-strategic-sourcing-option/#comment-8024 Mini Seal Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:53:53 +0000 http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/08/01/source-from-ebay%e2%80%a6the-new-strategic-sourcing-option/#comment-8024 eBay serves a great purpose when explaining some of the finer points of Sourcing and eSourcing for the first time - particularly to non-procurement stakeholders. I love to use it demonstrate some fundamental tenets behind sourcing - particularly how global sourcing is approriate for those items with a high price/delivery cost ratio - and vice versa. I use it to illustrate some of the bidding dynamics and strategies that go on, to explain the influence of event design upon outcome etc. - and the fact that you can log on and start using it right away, without any need to host it yourself! I agree Sean, the large corporate buyer will be frustrated by the lack of functionality and control inside about 10 minutes - but I do wonder what we will all do when the tables are turned, and one of our niche suppliers tells us "you know what, we think your eSourcing seems really efficient - so we are going to sell to you like that this year. See you on eBay!" If only eBay revised its pricing models a little, I think it has some scope for B2B selling :-) Its not a sourcing suite, - but I think it is a tool (says the guy who wires plugs with a cutlery knife) - and I do know that Meccano sets inspired a lot of people to be engineers. eBay serves a great purpose when explaining some of the finer points of Sourcing and eSourcing for the first time - particularly to non-procurement stakeholders. I love to use it demonstrate some fundamental tenets behind sourcing - particularly how global sourcing is approriate for those items with a high price/delivery cost ratio - and vice versa. I use it to illustrate some of the bidding dynamics and strategies that go on, to explain the influence of event design upon outcome etc. - and the fact that you can log on and start using it right away, without any need to host it yourself!

I agree Sean, the large corporate buyer will be frustrated by the lack of functionality and control inside about 10 minutes - but I do wonder what we will all do when the tables are turned, and one of our niche suppliers tells us “you know what, we think your eSourcing seems really efficient - so we are going to sell to you like that this year. See you on eBay!” If only eBay revised its pricing models a little, I think it has some scope for B2B selling :-)

Its not a sourcing suite, - but I think it is a tool (says the guy who wires plugs with a cutlery knife) - and I do know that Meccano sets inspired a lot of people to be engineers.

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