Planning is an integral part of "strategic" sourcing. In the absence of "methodical and structured" sourcing plans it is highly unlikely that your sourcing strategies will yield the desired results. Although sourcing professionals have been ' planning ' their sourcing strategies but due to the lack of processes, systems, collaborative capabilities, and knowledge repositories such sourcing plans have been at best tactical, ad-hoc and lacked depth.

For sourcing to be "strategic", not only should the sourcing professionals plan but plan efficiently and accurately . To develop "strategic" sourcing plans it is highly imperative for sourcing professionals to have access to systems and processes which are adequately supported by actionable knowledge base.

Beyond document management to Strategic Sourcing Planning

An industry first! Zycus has expanded the definition of Sourcing Solutions. Zycus iPlan provides step-wise user guidance for sourcing plan development. Zycus iPlan coaches users through best practices like category profiling, demand aggregation, Supply market analysis and Total Cost Modeling. Plan components like Demand Aggregation results and TCO Models can even be "flipped" into RFx Sections with a single click.

• Embraces 7-Step Best Practices Process required for good Plan Creation
• Knowledge reuse and knowledge capturing mechanism
• Inbuilt analysis tools like Category profiling, Total cost modeling etc
• Intuitive and easy to use

Zycus iPlan is available along with the Zycus iSource- The eSourcing module of Zycus eSourcing suite. Zycus iPlan can be delivered in SaaS mode as well as "behind the firewall" in your corporate premises.