GoProcure: GoProcure: Vendor Introduction (Part 2 - Product Strengths and Weaknesses, SWOT and Selection Checklist)

Categories: eProcurement / Procurement, Procurement Systems & Architecture, SOW, Tail Spend, Technology, Vendor SnapshotsTags: PROIn our last Spend Matters PRO brief, we introduced you to GoProcure, a four-year-old provider based out of Duluth, Georgia, that is deploying a B2B marketplace and platform for tail-spend management. Bringing together basic RFQ and requisitioning tools, a marketplace for procuring goods and services, and complementary services like a buying desk, GoProcure is positioning itself as capable of covering the full range of tail spend in a market where most vendors address some but not all of the tail. And while its coverage is not necessarily exhaustive, GoProcure's current iteration does encompass a lot of capabilities - albeit in a bit of a fragmented manner. Whether it's a fit for a procurement organization's unique challenges and needs, however, will come down to how exactly one conceives and chooses to tackle the tail.Part 1 of this brief provided some background on GoProcure and an overview of its offering. In Part 2, we provide a breakdown of what is comparatively good (and not so good) about the solution, a high-level SWOT analysis and a short selection requirements checklist that outlines the typical company for which GoProcure might be a good fit. We also give some final conclusions and takeaways.(Read more...)