Source-to-Contract

Turn your supplier consultations into better purchasing decisions

Digitize your entire sourcing process with SEMS E-Sourcing. From preparing an RFI, RFQ, RFP or tender through evaluation, negotiation and award, SEMS centralizes every step on a single platform.

Put your suppliers into greater competition, compare offers objectively, speed up your consultations and identify new savings opportunities.

Key capabilities

What E-Sourcing enables

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RFI / RFQ / RFP & tenders

Create all your sourcing events from SEMS. Structure your consultations with your own templates, lots, items, services, questionnaires, evaluation criteria and documents. Then invite the relevant suppliers and manage the entire process from a single interface.

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Supplier portal

Give every supplier a secure space to take part in your consultations. Suppliers can view files, download documents, ask questions, complete questionnaires and submit their offers directly online. You cut down on email exchanges while improving the supplier experience.

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Multi-criteria evaluation

Stop choosing an offer on price alone. Define your administrative, technical, financial, CSR, quality or risk criteria, then assign weightings tailored to each consultation. SEMS consolidates the evaluations and makes it easy to compare suppliers objectively.

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Evaluation committees

Involve the right people at the right time. Set up technical and financial committees, assign evaluators and precisely control the information each participant can access. Evaluations are centralized to produce a collective, structured and traceable decision.

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Smart offer comparison

Compare supplier proposals in a single consolidated view. Prices, quantities, lead times, commercial terms, technical scores and qualitative criteria can all be analyzed side by side. Instantly spot gaps, the best proposals and negotiation levers.

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TCO analysis

Compare the real cost, not just the price. The supplier with the lowest price is not necessarily the most competitive. SEMS lets you apply a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach to assess the overall cost of a proposal. Purchase price, transport, installation, maintenance, operating costs, warranties and other costs can be included in your analysis, giving you a fairer economic view before you decide.

Digital sourcing

SEMS centralizes your sourcing end to end

Supplier consultations still too often rely on emails, spreadsheets, scattered documents and manual approvals, which lengthens timelines and makes comparing offers harder. A single platform lets Procurement teams prepare, run, compare, negotiate, decide on and measure the results of their consultations.

Centralize

All consultations, offers and communications in one place.

Automate

Invitations, deadlines, workflows, evaluations and approvals.

Compare

Technical, financial and commercial proposals on a consistent basis.

Negotiate

Run multiple rounds and reverse auctions to improve the terms you obtain.

Decide

Base your awards on reliable data and objective criteria.

Measure

Track the savings and performance of your sourcing operations.

Negotiation

Turn every consultation into a savings opportunity

A supplier's first offer is not always the best one possible. SEMS gives you the tools to structure your negotiations and improve the terms you obtain.

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Multi-round negotiation

Go back to all or some of your suppliers to obtain new proposals. Compare each new offer against the previous one and automatically keep a history of the different negotiation rounds.

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Reverse auctions

Create dynamic e-auctions where suppliers can improve their proposals in real time. Boost competition and make the most of your negotiation potential.

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Supplier clarifications

Centralize requests for clarification and their responses without multiplying email exchanges. Every interaction stays linked to the relevant consultation.

Savings Management

Make your savings visible and measurable

Getting a better offer matters. Being able to demonstrate the value created by Procurement matters even more. SEMS lets you measure the savings achieved during the sourcing process by comparing the newly negotiated terms against your reference points.

Compare against the right reference

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Historical price

Compare against the price previously paid.

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Last order

Measure the gap with your last purchase price.

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Supplier contract

Compare the new terms against the contractual rate.

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Last consultation

Measure the change since your previous sourcing round.

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Budget / target price

Analyze performance against the defined target.

Turn every negotiation into a measurable result

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Reference price
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Initial supplier price
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Negotiated price
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Savings achieved

Procurement leadership thus gets a consolidated view of the value actually generated by their sourcing operations.

From need to award

A fully digital process, without any breaks

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Prepare
Create your consultation and define the suppliers, criteria, lots, documents and evaluation rules.
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Consult
Publish your RFI, RFQ or RFP and invite suppliers directly from the platform.
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Receive
Centralize and secure the receipt of the different proposals.
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Evaluate
Analyze the administrative, technical, commercial and financial offers.
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Negotiate
Launch clarification requests, new negotiation rounds or reverse auctions.
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Award
Select the best proposal and have the decision approved according to your workflow.
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Measure
Analyze the savings achieved and the performance of your sourcing.
Collaboration

Get every stakeholder collaborating

Sourcing isn't just the buyer's job. SEMS lets Procurement, business units, technical experts, Finance, Management and suppliers collaborate in a shared environment while keeping clearly defined rights and responsibilities. Everyone steps in only when needed and only on the information they are authorized to access.

Governance

Secure every purchasing decision

As the financial stakes increase, governance becomes essential. SEMS lets you set up multi-level approval workflows tailored to your organization.

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Buyer
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Procurement Manager
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Business unit management
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Finance
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Executive Management

Approval paths can vary according to the amount, purchasing category, entity, project or type of consultation.

Every decision becomes explainable and auditable

Give Procurement leadership a global view of sourcing

Consultations launched Amounts under consultation Supplier participation rate Average consultation duration Savings achieved Award rate Performance by category Supplier performance

This lets you identify the categories with the greatest optimization potential.

Integrations

Connect your sourcing to your ecosystem

SEMS E-Sourcing can be used standalone or integrated into your existing environment.

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ERP & Finance systems

Connect the data your Procurement processes need.

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SRM

Make the most of your supplier master data and information.

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Contract Management

Turn an award into a contracting process.

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Procure-to-Pay

Extend sourcing through to the purchase order and operational execution.

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Spend Analysis

Use your spend data to identify new sourcing opportunities.

Why choose SEMS

Why choose SEMS E-Sourcing?

📈 More savingsIncrease competitive tension and make more of your negotiation levers.
⏱️ Shorter cyclesReduce manual tasks and centralize exchanges.
🎯 More objective decisionsCompare suppliers using structured, weighted criteria.
👁️ Greater visibilityTrack your consultations, evaluations and negotiations in real time.
🛡️ Better governanceFrame decisions with workflows, roles and approval levels.
📜 Complete traceabilityKeep a history of every action and every decision.
E-Sourcing + Agentic AI

Take sourcing from automation to intelligence

AI can assist Procurement teams in analyzing consultations and offers, surfacing gaps, flagging points that need particular attention, and speeding up decision preparation. The goal is not to replace the buyer, but to let them spend more time on analysis, negotiation and value creation.

One platform. From spend to value.

E-Sourcing fits naturally into the SEMS suite.

Spend Analysis

Identify opportunities.

Supplier Management

Master your supplier ecosystem.

Contract Management

Secure your commitments.

Procure-to-Pay

Turn decisions into controlled purchases.

Other Source-to-Contract modules

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Ready to transform your sourcing?

Move from scattered consultations to a digital, collaborative, measurable and fully traceable process. With SEMS E-Sourcing, give your Procurement teams the means to run consultations more efficiently, negotiate better and make better supplier decisions. Discover SEMS E-Sourcing in action.