QUAEST Information

QUAEST – The Smart Sourcing Network Strategic Sourcing! Reinvented! In today’s business world, the importance of procurement is ever increasing. With up to 75% of a business’ cost base driven by suppliers, the diligent control of this significant productivity factor becomes a competitive advantage. Making this advantage work for you requires exceptional talent and innovative approaches. At the same time, sourcing decisions have to be robust and transparent requiring rigorous process management and control. And all of that for an ever widening range and complexity of all the different categories under management by the procurement function. Impossible? Not anymore! We have reinvented the way strategic sourcing is done. Welcome to QUAEST – The Smart Sourcing Network QUAEST is a new and innovative productive work environment for strategic procurement professionals. It provides a “business operating system” in which to create robust and effective sourcing strategies by integrating state of the art strategic tools and analytics with process management and cross-functional collaboration. It is fully integrated into existing desktop IT environments and business processes providing full support to category mangers, team leaders and CPOs. QUAEST is the answer to the increasing importance of the procurement function and the need for more business impact.