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Rob Overmyer, Senior Buyer, Parker Hannifin, "I have run a number of Reverse-Auctions for a variety of items and have achieved great success. Sorcity offers one of the easier and more effective on-line solutions to sourcing my requirements. By having my current suppliers bid through my Reverse-Auctions also, it takes even less time and I'm ensured the best price."Ronda Allen, former Purchasing Manager at JCPenney, now with Boeing says "Of the other sites that offer similar services, I still feel Sorcity.com is the best in the market for freeing up a buyer's time for real value-added work."
Tracy Etienne, Corporate Procurement Director, Rexroth Corporation: "Our goal at Rexroth was to 'test the waters' with e-procurement. There are various models that a company can implement, for example, consultative, software, application service provider (ASP) and fully-managed service. Our main goal was to invest no money only time. After extensive research, Rexroth decided to go with Sorcity.com, which is a broad range e-marketplace that offers a fully managed Internet service and is simple to use. Rexroth and suppliers only needed Internet access and were very pleased with the results."
Sandy Vannatta, MRO Buyer, Rexroth, "I found the Sorcity.com reverse-auction to be a great way to do business in the future; It allows the buyer to put forth his/her energy in other areas while waiting for the bidding process to complete - the reverse auction does work!"
Patty Borck, Buyer, Owens Corning; Our company has placed several Reverse-Auctions through Sorcity.com, our latest saved over 15% on what we expected to pay. The results are excellent, we saved significant time by not having to locate new suppliers, administer the RFQ, or negotiate the price. We are pleased to have this capability without the cost, risk or time required by other e-Procurement offerings on the market. It's a great solution!
Pat Dillon, Online Sales Manager, BossOnline; "If I was a buyer I would be using Sorcity.com to place Reverse-Auctions every day. I have been to many sites most of which are a joke, lacking the expertise of the Sorcity.com staff and not providing the ease of use and features of this site. Our company has been in business for 36 years and we're looking forward to doing business with Sorcity.com."
Tom Meston, Techint Technologies says, "Sorcity.com provides the benefit of receiving prices from multiple suppliers in one step, and it was simple and easy to use. I've registered with other eprocurement web sites but have not used them. Sorcity was the only site (out of about 20 sites I evaluated) that allowed me to source what I wanted to buy. Sorcity is able to handle different types of purchases much better than other offerings."
Jim Tyson, Pier 1 Imports Director, Corporate Purchasing, says one of the most attractive aspects of Sorcity.com is how objective it allows the buying process to be. "This makes it easier for us to take existing vendor relationships out of the mix and keep our selection very bottom-line," he says.
Mike Bell, Materials Manager of Purchasing for Hewlett Packard, "Once we were introduced to the Sorcity.com service, we were immediately intrigued. We expect to purchase the items we need faster for less money using this tool."
Cheryl Alexander, Pier 1 Imports, "Sorcity can reduce my sourcing effort from as much as two days to as little as one hour," she says. "And, we get the best possible price because of the competitive nature of the bidding process among the large base of qualified suppliers. In fact, with the experience we've had with Sorcity.com so far, we expect Internet purchasing to enable us to lower some of our supply costs by as much as 20 percent."
Rich Lefebvre, e-Business Practice Marketing Director at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). "The all-inclusive reverse-auction model like Sorcity.com gives the buyer a comprehensive sourcing tool and the same service at no extra cost. So, find me one purchasing agent out there who would actually prefer making their corporate purchases through dozens of specialists, if they could get the same products for less money through one single source."
Graham Collins, Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Supply Management Practice, says even the most successful companies have to keep pushing the envelope. "No company can ignore the additional marketing channels e-procurement and reverse-auctions bring. It's a new game now with new rules. The opportunity is learning how to use these rules to our advantage."