Workday Strategic Sourcing

A wonderfully useful tool with enough flexibility to meet 95% of any of your needs. Suppliers love it, stakeholders love it, and so does my team.

Your available ratings jump from average to outstanding and I don't think that's the right progression. While I'd rate Scout as above average, I don't think that all the way to "outstanding" should be the next choice.

My team has been using Scout for two years and while we've had some challenges on the Sourcing Manager side, they are outweighed by the seamless e-sourcing experience for suppliers and stakeholders. Overall, it is great to have a central place for RFX submissions to live and Scout makes it easy for users to collaborate throughout the entire process (i.e. team chat, ability for stakeholders to edit). One of my team's favorite features is the supplier Q&A where stakeholders can respond to supplier questions in platform in an easy, collaborative way. The past couple years, our biggest challenge was with Scout Evaluations - though it has been great to see Scout implementing updates to help ease some of these challenges. In general, there's a bit of a learning curve (training stakeholders, creating templates, learning from hands on experience, etc), but with each project we run through Scout, the team get increasingly comfortable with the tool.

Scout RFP is an incredible esourcing tool that has contributed greatly to the digital transformation of our sourcing organization. The tool is very intuitive and easy to use for our stakeholders as well as bidding vendors which makes it very easy to create and launch sourcing events/projects from scratch. One of the biggest benefits that we get from Scout is the visibility into our sourcing organization that the tool provides. We have also achieved value from standardizing our sourcing processes across multiple spend areas so that we are ensuring that our sourcing events are competitive and provide the best value to our organization either through low-cost or best overall supply partner.

exceptionally easy to use and configure product and has helped us lift our productivity and performance significantly. Great support and partnership also.