Support Tool for Strategic Acquisition Decisions

Strategic decisions are by nature very complex. They often involve acquisitions where the outcome is yet unknown. For example a research project about an impregnable shield against nuclear weapons. In these cases specifications do not make sense because there is no sense in drafting a specification when the outcome is unknown. This is the type of acquisition that cannot be served with the specification-based type tools.

Features of a Strategic Purchasing Decision Support System

# Collaborative, Expert Assisted Decisions: Optimal decisions are made by capturing expert knowledge in every facet of the decision process. Procusoft raises the level of procurement competence by capturing, storing and sharing your organization's experts knowledge across the organization.
# Complex Criteria: Procusoft goes far beyond simple weighted spreadsheets. It enables Program Managers to articulate the impact of the various criteria on their selection (i.e. extent to which additional memory enhances laptops). This expert knowledge optimizes the acquisition decision.
# Real Time Repurposable Knowledge: By capturing the expert's know-how in the system and making it repurposable, it becomes part of the corporate intellectual assets. Since the expertise is part of the system, when the experts depart your organization, their expertise is not lost.
# Understanding and Justifying a Decision: Often, procurement systems are used to justify or understand a decision. Given a selection, Procusoft's inference engine will highlight the relevant criteria and measure the tradeoffs that yield the desired results.
# Analyze Decisions: Procusoft's ability to rationalize, collect, and store insight into users' selections and then analyze them to learn from and optimize them is invaluable. The high cost of traditional techniques stems from the need to continually program the system to assess new alternatives.