OGC(The Office of Government Commerce ,UK) provides an useful tool that assist you to evaluate whether an e-Auction is suitable for a particular procurement. Although it is aimed primarily at those within the public sector buying community, you can still try if it works for you.
Click this link to access the e-Auction Tool, http://www.ogc.gov.uk/documents/eAuction_Decison_tool.xls
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The old said: “there is no feast lasting forever”.  The same goes to the strategic supplier relationship. No matter how valuable a strategic “ventor alliance” may be at various points of the relationship, the relationship will change substantially and probably end somewhere along the way.  It is important to the exit strategy ready for every supplier. […]

Purchasing magazine is running a good article about sourcing savings. It indicates that although strategic sourcing is such a powerful tool that help generate huge savings for companies on goods and services purchased, but not all of the anticipated savings agreed to in contracts are flowing down to the bottom line. Analyses show that less than half of their contracted sourcing savings […]