eRFx Software
Find the Right Suppliers at the Right Price.
Scanmarket's e-sourcing software helps you streamline pre-qualifications and supplier shortlisting through a shared tender platform for designing, distributing, collecting and analyzing RFIs, RFPs and RFQs.
Scanmarket is trusted by businesses across the globe
Automation Matters
The key to successful source to contract management lies in the ability to enable procurement teams to make great decisions – and to do so, automation is everything.
Sourcing professionals can gather information and share it across their entire organization and automate processes to increase efficiency. Compare and qualify potential suppliers based on qualitative and quantitative measures. Making it easy to participate in supplier pre-qualification, and to review the evaluation criteria, and results as a stakeholder.
Improve process, compliance, efficiency, and results across all your sourcing activities with Scanmarket's erfx module.
eRFx Enables Supplier Prequalification, Analysis and Shortlisting
The more knowledge you gain about your suppliers, the more competent you will be when it’s time to select the right ones for further negotiation on terms and price.
With everything connected, you will gain control of the strategic sourcing process, increase your negotiation leverage, gain competitive advantage, and experience long term success.
Set Your Team Up
for Success
Reduce cycle times by up to 50% with RFx templates.
Don’t make your team repeat themselves. Easily create, edit and reuse event templates to vet suppliers for the bidding process in one seamless experience.
Setting up an eRFx event is straightforward. Simply describe your request for information, request for proposal or request for quotation. Add internal and external participants that you want to include in the event. Then attach any applicable notes for you and your stakeholders.
You can also outline optional questions for suppliers and create the bidding structure to be completed by suppliers. The structure is flexible and can be uploaded using Excel. Audit documentation is instantly available.
Integrates with industry applications
Integrate with what you know and already use.
Scanmarket integrates with leading technology solutions to create an effortless experience for the end user.
Key eRFx functionalities
Pre-made eRFx Templates
Easy eRFx Distribution
Supplier Reminders
Integrated Messaging System
Advanced Results Comparison
Reduce Supplier Negotiation Time
Centralized Information
500+ Happy Customers
Scanmarket's software is built to make S2C management as simple as it should be.
But don't just take our word for it
"If I had conducted the sourcing process as a traditional face-to-face negotiation, I would have spent at least 3 months on the whole process. With the Scanmarket platform, I have managed to complete the same process in less than three weeks!"
Dániel Gál, Global Senior Sourcing Analyst at Grundfos
“Every single user has been creating their own events resulting in an outstanding 100% adoption rate.”
Andreas Bivall, Head of Procurement Development & Group Categories at Boliden
“At Home Trust, we are now in year one of post-procurement digital transformation, and we are extremely pleased with how it is working out at this point. Scanmarket was an integral part of our journey, and we are happy with our partnership.”
Sanja Cancar-Todorovic, Head of Enterprise Procurement, Outsourcing, and Vendor Management at Home Trust
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How Much Does Scanmarket Cost?
Companies of every size and type, from medium-sized manufacturing businesses to enterprise-level service organizations have made the move to Scanmarket. Looking for a better way to run your source-to-contract processes but wondering about the cost?
Users subscribe to Scanmarket for an annual license fee. Your license is made up of three main components: core platform, optional modules and the number of users. There is also a one-time implementation fee for the initial setup.
As your business grows, you can easily activate new modules and add users — that’s the beauty of cloud software.
24/5 customer support is included with the Scanmarket platform license.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Which tender processes can I optimize using eRFx?
With Scanmarket's e-procurement software, you can easily leverage all your supplier knowledge to optimize the e-tendering process and keep your team in the know about your suppliers.
New potential suppliers
- Sourcing for new potential suppliers
- Prequalification of suppliers
- Pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQs) and normal tenders
Benchmark current suppliers
- Consolidation of the internal supplier base
- Benchmark current suppliers against the market
- Development of current suppliers
- Equality & diversity surveys
- Supplier satisfaction surveys
- Selection of supplier of the year
- Measurement of carbon footprint
- Vacations
Use internally in your organization
- Surveys
- Evaluations of courses or training exercises
- Gathering of stakeholder information
How will suppliers use eRFx?
Suppliers will get a unique login in order to participate in an event. Closely monitor event participants to ensure everything is progressing as expected. Scanmarket provides a unique login experience so stakeholders do not have to keep track of login information. Login assistance constitutes the vast majority of IT support requests, but Scanmarket's unique login system simplifies the login process to reduce support requirements and enhance your e sourcing experience.
Is it possible to carry out unbiased bid analysis?
Make supplier decisions with an instant overview of potential savings based on intuitive cost-benefit analyses comparing qualitative and quantitative measurements. Extensive evaluation settings incorporate multiple ways to look at event results including:
- Parameters for the inclusion or exclusion of data and different groupings.
- Scoring for different weightings to be placed on inputs such as price, delivery, service levels, and more.
- Stakeholder input to solicit opinions and ratings from members of your internal team.
Which RFx formats do you support?
Design your electronic request for information, electronic request for proposal or electronic request for quotation according to your specific needs using different eRFx formats such as Cherry Picking, List, CherryLot™, and BidMatrix. Evaluate and score bids with the right information, and tailor negotiation settings to map your strategy.
- Group bid line items according to your best scenario via lotting and sublotting.
- Collect qualitative information via Request for Information RFI, quantitative (e.g. price) information via RFQ, and both qualitative and quantitative via RFP.
- Use as multi-stage RFx events to progress early-stage request for information through a detailed request for proposal to final price negotiation, request for tender.
- A BidMatrix allows for the collection, organization, and evaluation of up to one million data points.
- RFQ BidMatrix is a request for quantitative information through a bid list - not a regular bid list, but an editable matrix.
- The BidMatrix contains one or more lots, and each lot contains a completely customizable matrix where you control the data input.
- Large amounts of both qualitative and quantitative data can be collected and distributed through the matrix.
- RFX BidMatrix is a combination of an RFI and an RFQ BidMatrix that contains a questionnaire and an editable matrix.
Which type of support do you provide?
We provide 24/5 Quick Call support for your internal users and suppliers.
Quick Call support is not like your typical support desk. With Scanmarket, you have direct access to our global team of expert source-to-contract consultants who can resolve your issues rapidly. We often hear from our customers that Scanmarket's Quick Call support is the best in the industry.
Quick Call support is available to customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. 85% of Quick Calls are answered in less than a minute, and 95% are answered within five minutes.