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Global Strategic Sourcing Experts Help You Find Hidden Gem Suppliers

K2 Sourcing casts a wide net, leveraging our proprietary database of 250,000+ suppliers built from running nineteen thousand sourcing events, premium paid sources and AI-assisted tools, and then, through a robust process, local presence, and our strategic-sourcing platform, rapidly funnels that universe to the few best suppliers for you. It solves:

✔ De-risking supply chains
✔ Reshoring, nearshoring, and friend shoring
✔ Global sourcing & supplier discovery
✔ Best cost country sourcing
✔ Total cost and value modeling
✔ Increasing supplier competition
✔ Supplier consolidation & cost efficiency
✔ Reducing sourcing cycle times
✔ Achieving measurable procurement savings

Immediate Access to a Local Presence Where It Counts

K2 Sourcing provides you with an immediate local presence in China, India, Mexico, Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey, South Korea, Taiwan, Poland, United States, Canada.

Shortlist Suppliers Quickly

Our sourcing platform includes preformatted online templates for requests for information (RFI) and requests for proposal (RFP), or we can use your supplier assessment template. Fully customizable to ensure suppliers align with your specific requirements. Online reporting simplifies the process of supplier evaluation, allowing teams to make quick excellent decisions.

Add Great People with Little Risk

With a 30-day cancellation clause in place, with minimal risk, organizations can confidently leverage K2 Sourcing's extensive experience managing 19,000 RFPs involving over 200,000 suppliers.

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This experience allows us to provide:

Lists of suppliers across many direct, indirect, and resale categories

Hundreds of RFP templates that capture total cost and service variables

Stakeholder interview checklists ensure the right information is gathered

A successful repeatable transparent RFP process

Specialized commodity teams comprised of advisors, project managers, and analysts

An RFP application that makes the strategic sourcing process easier and more effective

A measurable process that clearly proves outcomes

Augmenting your team with K2 Sourcing immediately helps:

Improve savings generated by 5% to 25%

Fill the procurement team resource and experience gaps

Accelerate generation and realization of savings

Find the suppliers that can best support your business objectives

Introduce the company to huge pools of potential suppliers

Provide global sourcing access with local support in 14 countries

Shrink RFP review cycles by as much as 50%

Mitigate supply risk using the right award strategies

Understand supplier ESG, including scope 3, accomplishments

Access market intelligence

Benchmark with your peers

Launch new products faster

Reduce operating costs

Promote a cost-conscious and value driven culture

Increase innovation

Utilize best practices such as eprocurement and esourcing

Increase team morale

Allow leaders to react rapidly to changing resource needs

Why K2 Sourcing?

Combined Savings of Over $1 billion

K2 has helped over 100 companies refine and execute their category strategies. Our strategic sourcing teams have helped review billions of dollars across several hundred categories resulting in cost savings of over $600 million. Team members report greater satisfaction in their job and often see promotion.

Specific Category Expertise

Some of our specific category expertise is with direct materials, indirect materials, services, MRO, transportation, private label, items for resale, capital expense, packaging, and telecom and IT.

Subject Matter Experts

We have a vast network of subject matter experts, lists of suppliers from completing thousands of RFPs, stakeholder questionnaires and RFP templates for several hundred subcategories, and technology infused strategic sourcing provided by our in-house Cloud Source Advanced application.

An Integrated Human and Technology Strategic Sourcing Solution

Hiring the right people and getting them up to speed is time consuming, laden with risk, and takes months. There are other agencies that provide procurement consulting solutions. However, they do not develop their own RFP applications. K2 Sourcing offers an integrated human and technology strategic sourcing solution that provides an unparalleled value to procurement leaders and teams.

Reaching Procurement Goals Made Easy

As procurement teams will be challenged to produce greater value make it easier for the team to reach your procurement goals. K2 Sourcing offers a unique integrated human and technology strategic sourcing solution that provides unparalleled value to procurement leaders and strategic sourcing professionals. Schedule an introductory call with K2 Sourcing today.

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