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Meet the new SIG Community

A smarter home for SIG resources, and a livelier place to connect with your peers. Two places, one community, built around the way sourcing and procurement professionals actually work.

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Two places. One community.

Read up in the SIG Resource Center, then talk it through with peers on Slack. Each does what it does best, and they’re built to work together.

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The SIG Resource Center

Thousands of SIG tools, templates, research reports, presentations, and webinars, organized by topic and easy to search. Find what you need, save time, and bring proven practices back to your team.

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  • Real-time conversation, not just posts
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Built to work together

Same topics. Same people. Two ways to engage.

The Resource Center and the Slack forums share the same procurement topics, from category management to third-party risk. Read the research, then join the conversation about it with peers who live it every day. The SIG forums show up right inside your own Slack, next to your team’s channels.

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Sourcing strategy, RFx, supplier selection, and TCO.

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Strategic Sourcing
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Kim NavarroPellston Group4:18 PM
Sharing the should-cost template we used for our corrugated packaging event last quarter. Built it off the SIG TCO model, so it should drop right into your RFx.
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Rachel OkaforHalverson Foods10:42 AM
Has anyone moved to a two-stage RFP for indirect categories? We’re thinking a quick market-scan RFI first, then a short-list RFP with should-cost modeling. Curious how you kept cycle time down and whether suppliers pushed back.
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Strategic Sourcing

Strategic Sourcing

Strategic Sourcing
Welcome! This is where SIG members work through sourcing strategy and execution end to end, from spend analysis to award. Every category and every event size, from a single renewal to a global RFP.
By taking part in this SIG Slack Community Channel, you agree to follow the Community Guidelines in every channel, thread, and direct message.
What to bring here
  • Spend and should-cost analysis
  • RFx design and evaluation criteria
  • Bid evaluation and supplier selection
  • Negotiation approaches and outcomes
  • Cost modeling and TCO
  • A problem you’re stuck on. Someone here has almost certainly hit it.
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Find it faster

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Wherever you work

Slack runs on desktop and mobile, so the community fits into your day instead of competing with it.

Focus on what matters to you

Join the forums that match your work and skip the rest. Your feed stays relevant.

Grow your career

Job listings in the Career Center, plus a dedicated Slack channel for career conversations.

Easy to get started

Current members are set up automatically. We’ll send everything you need when it’s time.