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A framework, mid-market benchmarks, and a proposal structure you can adapt to your organisation.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"cta-row\">\n <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"\/pricing\/#contact\">Request a business case working session<\/a>\n <a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"#framework\">Jump to the ROI framework<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>What is on this page<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n A structured toolkit for the person inside your organisation building the case for EvaluationsHub. Use it end to end, or lift the parts that fit your internal template.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"toc\">\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">01<\/span>\n <h4>Cost of the status quo<\/h4>\n <span>Where mid-market procurement teams lose time, spend, and control today.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">02<\/span>\n <h4>Benefit categories<\/h4>\n <span>Five value drivers with mid-market benchmarks you can reference.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">03<\/span>\n <h4>ROI framework<\/h4>\n <span>A worked example with adjustable inputs for a 400 supplier scope.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">04<\/span>\n <h4>Proposal structure<\/h4>\n <span>A seven part outline you can drop into your internal template.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">05<\/span>\n <h4>Vendor credibility<\/h4>\n <span>Security, references, and academic foundations for your appendix.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section-tinted\">\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>The cost of the status quo<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n Most mid-market procurement teams manage 150 to 1,500 suppliers with a combination of spreadsheets, shared drives, email threads, and quarterly ERP exports. That creates real, quantifiable cost.\n <\/p>\n <ul class=\"status-list\">\n <li>\n <strong>Manual scorecard preparation<\/strong>\n <span>8 to 15 hours per category manager, per quarter, spent pulling data from ERP, quality systems, and mailboxes into spreadsheets.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Slow CAPA closure<\/strong>\n <span>Median 47 days between a supplier issue being logged and a corrective action being closed. No structured follow-up cadence.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Renewal and category leakage<\/strong>\n <span>3 to 7 percent of category spend at risk from auto-renewals, non-compliant sourcing, and missed contract windows.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Audit preparation overhead<\/strong>\n <span>40 to 80 hours of ad-hoc work per audit cycle to assemble supplier evidence, questionnaires, and performance history.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Fragmented supplier records<\/strong>\n <span>20 to 35 percent supplier data drift year over year across sourcing, quality, ESG, and finance systems.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Single point of failure<\/strong>\n <span>Category knowledge lives in one person's inbox. Attrition or reorganisation resets the relationship.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>Five benefit categories<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n Where EvaluationsHub delivers measurable value. Each category can be sized against your own baseline using the ROI framework below.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"benefit-grid\">\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">01<\/div>\n <h3>Governance and audit readiness<\/h3>\n <p>Structured evidence trail across ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and CSRD reporting. Auditor-ready exports on demand instead of ad-hoc reassembly.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">02<\/div>\n <h3>Supplier risk visibility<\/h3>\n <p>Automated scoring across performance, ESG, financial, and compliance dimensions. Early warning before issues escalate to disruption.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">03<\/div>\n <h3>Time recovery<\/h3>\n <p>Category managers reclaim 6 to 10 hours per week previously spent on data pulls, spreadsheet compilation, and status chasing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">04<\/div>\n <h3>Contract and category discipline<\/h3>\n <p>Prevents 2 to 4 percent of category spend from slipping through renewal gaps, off-contract buying, or non-compliant sourcing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">05<\/div>\n <h3>Cross-functional alignment<\/h3>\n <p>Quality, procurement, ESG, and finance operate from a single supplier record instead of parallel spreadsheets that quietly diverge.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">06<\/div>\n <h3>Institutional memory<\/h3>\n <p>Supplier history, decisions, and evaluations persist through personnel changes and reorganisation. Knowledge stops walking out the door.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"framework\" class=\"section-tinted\">\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>ROI framework: a worked example<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n A conservative case for a mid-market manufacturer with a 400 supplier scope. Adjust the inputs to match your own baseline, and use this as the anchor for your internal proposal.\n <\/p>\n\n <div class=\"roi-frame\">\n <h3>Scenario inputs<\/h3>\n <div class=\"roi-context\">\n <div><strong>400<\/strong>suppliers under management<\/div>\n <div><strong>\u20ac120M<\/strong>annual direct spend<\/div>\n <div><strong>6<\/strong>category managers<\/div>\n <div><strong>Mid-market<\/strong>manufacturer, EU based<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <h3>Year one investment<\/h3>\n <table class=\"roi\">\n <thead>\n <tr><th>Line item<\/th><th style=\"text-align:right\">Amount<\/th><\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr><td>EvaluationsHub full SRM suite, \u20ac6 per supplier per month<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac28,800<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>Enterprise platform fee<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac13,200<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>Implementation, one time<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac8,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr class=\"total\"><td>Total year one investment<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac50,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n\n <h3 style=\"margin-top:36px\">Year one return, conservative<\/h3>\n <table class=\"roi\">\n <thead>\n <tr><th>Value driver<\/th><th style=\"text-align:right\">Value captured<\/th><\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr><td>Time recovery: 6 category managers x 6 hours per week x \u20ac65 fully loaded x 46 weeks<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac107,640<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>Category leakage prevented: 1 percent of \u20ac120M, 20 percent attributed to visibility<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac240,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>One avoided supplier disruption<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac150,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr class=\"total\"><td>Total year one return<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac497,640<\/td><\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n\n <div class=\"roi-headline\">\n <div>\n <div class=\"val\">9x<\/div>\n <div class=\"lbl\">Year one ROI<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div>\n <div class=\"val\">< 2 months<\/div>\n <div class=\"lbl\">Payback period<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div>\n <div class=\"val\">\u20ac447k<\/div>\n <div class=\"lbl\">Year one net benefit<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p class=\"roi-note\">\n These figures use conservative attribution. In our experience, mid-market customers see additional value from CAPA cycle time reduction, faster onboarding, and supplier innovation capture that is harder to quantify at proposal stage. The framework above is designed to be defensible in front of finance, not to inflate the case.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>A seven part proposal structure<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n What to include when you bring EvaluationsHub to your internal decision forum. Adapt to your organisation's template, but keep the sequence.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"steps\">\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Problem statement<\/h4>\n <p>Specific to your organisation. Which categories, which risks, which bottlenecks. Anchor the case in a concrete recent event where possible.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Cost of the status quo<\/h4>\n <p>Your version of the numbers above, using your headcount, spend, and supplier count. The math must be your own.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Proposed solution<\/h4>\n <p>Scope of EvaluationsHub deployment, module selection, supplier segments in scope, integration touchpoints.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>ROI and payback<\/h4>\n <p>Investment against conservative return. Include sensitivity: what happens if you capture half the modelled benefit.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Risk of not acting<\/h4>\n <p>Audit exposure, ESG reporting deadlines, single point of failure risk, category leakage that compounds year over year.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Implementation plan<\/h4>\n <p>Typical timeline is 4 to 8 weeks to first value. Include your internal owner, integration scope, and go-live milestone.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Vendor credibility<\/h4>\n <p>Security posture, reference customers, and the research foundations behind the platform. See the next section for material you can copy in.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section-tinted\">\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>Vendor credibility, for your appendix<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n Material you can lift directly into the vendor section of your proposal.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"cred\">\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>ISO 27001 certified<\/strong>\n <span>SIS Certifications, IAS and IAF accredited. Security posture documentation available on request.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>EU data residency<\/strong>\n <span>AWS eu-west-3 (Paris). Data does not leave the European Union.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>ERCULES EU Horizon grant<\/strong>\n <span>Recognised research partner in a multi-year European supplier resilience programme.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>Academic foundations<\/strong>\n <span>Founded by faculty at I\u00c9SEG School of Management and Ghent University. Peer-reviewed research base.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <h3 style=\"margin-top:44px;margin-bottom:8px\">Reference customers<\/h3>\n <div class=\"logos\">\n <span>Dell<\/span>\n <span>Capgemini<\/span>\n <span>Firestone<\/span>\n <span>British Telecom<\/span>\n <span>McCain<\/span>\n <span>Kyndryl<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <div class=\"cta-block\">\n <h2>Get help building your case<\/h2>\n <p>\n Book a working session with our team. 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A framework, mid-market benchmarks, and a proposal structure you can adapt to your organisation.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"cta-row\">\n <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"\/pricing\/#contact\">Request a business case working session<\/a>\n <a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"#framework\">Jump to the ROI framework<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>What is on this page<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n A structured toolkit for the person inside your organisation building the case for EvaluationsHub. Use it end to end, or lift the parts that fit your internal template.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"toc\">\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">01<\/span>\n <h4>Cost of the status quo<\/h4>\n <span>Where mid-market procurement teams lose time, spend, and control today.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">02<\/span>\n <h4>Benefit categories<\/h4>\n <span>Five value drivers with mid-market benchmarks you can reference.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">03<\/span>\n <h4>ROI framework<\/h4>\n <span>A worked example with adjustable inputs for a 400 supplier scope.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">04<\/span>\n <h4>Proposal structure<\/h4>\n <span>A seven part outline you can drop into your internal template.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"toc-item\">\n <span class=\"toc-num\">05<\/span>\n <h4>Vendor credibility<\/h4>\n <span>Security, references, and academic foundations for your appendix.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section-tinted\">\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>The cost of the status quo<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n Most mid-market procurement teams manage 150 to 1,500 suppliers with a combination of spreadsheets, shared drives, email threads, and quarterly ERP exports. That creates real, quantifiable cost.\n <\/p>\n <ul class=\"status-list\">\n <li>\n <strong>Manual scorecard preparation<\/strong>\n <span>8 to 15 hours per category manager, per quarter, spent pulling data from ERP, quality systems, and mailboxes into spreadsheets.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Slow CAPA closure<\/strong>\n <span>Median 47 days between a supplier issue being logged and a corrective action being closed. No structured follow-up cadence.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Renewal and category leakage<\/strong>\n <span>3 to 7 percent of category spend at risk from auto-renewals, non-compliant sourcing, and missed contract windows.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Audit preparation overhead<\/strong>\n <span>40 to 80 hours of ad-hoc work per audit cycle to assemble supplier evidence, questionnaires, and performance history.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Fragmented supplier records<\/strong>\n <span>20 to 35 percent supplier data drift year over year across sourcing, quality, ESG, and finance systems.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <li>\n <strong>Single point of failure<\/strong>\n <span>Category knowledge lives in one person's inbox. Attrition or reorganisation resets the relationship.<\/span>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>Five benefit categories<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n Where EvaluationsHub delivers measurable value. Each category can be sized against your own baseline using the ROI framework below.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"benefit-grid\">\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">01<\/div>\n <h3>Governance and audit readiness<\/h3>\n <p>Structured evidence trail across ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and CSRD reporting. Auditor-ready exports on demand instead of ad-hoc reassembly.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">02<\/div>\n <h3>Supplier risk visibility<\/h3>\n <p>Automated scoring across performance, ESG, financial, and compliance dimensions. Early warning before issues escalate to disruption.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">03<\/div>\n <h3>Time recovery<\/h3>\n <p>Category managers reclaim 6 to 10 hours per week previously spent on data pulls, spreadsheet compilation, and status chasing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">04<\/div>\n <h3>Contract and category discipline<\/h3>\n <p>Prevents 2 to 4 percent of category spend from slipping through renewal gaps, off-contract buying, or non-compliant sourcing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">05<\/div>\n <h3>Cross-functional alignment<\/h3>\n <p>Quality, procurement, ESG, and finance operate from a single supplier record instead of parallel spreadsheets that quietly diverge.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"benefit\">\n <div class=\"icon\">06<\/div>\n <h3>Institutional memory<\/h3>\n <p>Supplier history, decisions, and evaluations persist through personnel changes and reorganisation. Knowledge stops walking out the door.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"framework\" class=\"section-tinted\">\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>ROI framework: a worked example<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n A conservative case for a mid-market manufacturer with a 400 supplier scope. Adjust the inputs to match your own baseline, and use this as the anchor for your internal proposal.\n <\/p>\n\n <div class=\"roi-frame\">\n <h3>Scenario inputs<\/h3>\n <div class=\"roi-context\">\n <div><strong>400<\/strong>suppliers under management<\/div>\n <div><strong>\u20ac120M<\/strong>annual direct spend<\/div>\n <div><strong>6<\/strong>category managers<\/div>\n <div><strong>Mid-market<\/strong>manufacturer, EU based<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <h3>Year one investment<\/h3>\n <table class=\"roi\">\n <thead>\n <tr><th>Line item<\/th><th style=\"text-align:right\">Amount<\/th><\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr><td>EvaluationsHub full SRM suite, \u20ac6 per supplier per month<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac28,800<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>Enterprise platform fee<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac13,200<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>Implementation, one time<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac8,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr class=\"total\"><td>Total year one investment<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac50,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n\n <h3 style=\"margin-top:36px\">Year one return, conservative<\/h3>\n <table class=\"roi\">\n <thead>\n <tr><th>Value driver<\/th><th style=\"text-align:right\">Value captured<\/th><\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr><td>Time recovery: 6 category managers x 6 hours per week x \u20ac65 fully loaded x 46 weeks<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac107,640<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>Category leakage prevented: 1 percent of \u20ac120M, 20 percent attributed to visibility<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac240,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr><td>One avoided supplier disruption<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac150,000<\/td><\/tr>\n <tr class=\"total\"><td>Total year one return<\/td><td class=\"num\">\u20ac497,640<\/td><\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n\n <div class=\"roi-headline\">\n <div>\n <div class=\"val\">9x<\/div>\n <div class=\"lbl\">Year one ROI<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div>\n <div class=\"val\">< 2 months<\/div>\n <div class=\"lbl\">Payback period<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div>\n <div class=\"val\">\u20ac447k<\/div>\n <div class=\"lbl\">Year one net benefit<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <p class=\"roi-note\">\n These figures use conservative attribution. In our experience, mid-market customers see additional value from CAPA cycle time reduction, faster onboarding, and supplier innovation capture that is harder to quantify at proposal stage. The framework above is designed to be defensible in front of finance, not to inflate the case.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>A seven part proposal structure<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n What to include when you bring EvaluationsHub to your internal decision forum. Adapt to your organisation's template, but keep the sequence.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"steps\">\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Problem statement<\/h4>\n <p>Specific to your organisation. Which categories, which risks, which bottlenecks. Anchor the case in a concrete recent event where possible.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Cost of the status quo<\/h4>\n <p>Your version of the numbers above, using your headcount, spend, and supplier count. The math must be your own.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Proposed solution<\/h4>\n <p>Scope of EvaluationsHub deployment, module selection, supplier segments in scope, integration touchpoints.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>ROI and payback<\/h4>\n <p>Investment against conservative return. Include sensitivity: what happens if you capture half the modelled benefit.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Risk of not acting<\/h4>\n <p>Audit exposure, ESG reporting deadlines, single point of failure risk, category leakage that compounds year over year.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Implementation plan<\/h4>\n <p>Typical timeline is 4 to 8 weeks to first value. Include your internal owner, integration scope, and go-live milestone.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"step\">\n <h4>Vendor credibility<\/h4>\n <p>Security posture, reference customers, and the research foundations behind the platform. See the next section for material you can copy in.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section-tinted\">\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <h2>Vendor credibility, for your appendix<\/h2>\n <p class=\"section-intro\">\n Material you can lift directly into the vendor section of your proposal.\n <\/p>\n <div class=\"cred\">\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>ISO 27001 certified<\/strong>\n <span>SIS Certifications, IAS and IAF accredited. Security posture documentation available on request.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>EU data residency<\/strong>\n <span>AWS eu-west-3 (Paris). Data does not leave the European Union.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>ERCULES EU Horizon grant<\/strong>\n <span>Recognised research partner in a multi-year European supplier resilience programme.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"cred-item\">\n <strong>Academic foundations<\/strong>\n <span>Founded by faculty at I\u00c9SEG School of Management and Ghent University. Peer-reviewed research base.<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <h3 style=\"margin-top:44px;margin-bottom:8px\">Reference customers<\/h3>\n <div class=\"logos\">\n <span>Dell<\/span>\n <span>Capgemini<\/span>\n <span>Firestone<\/span>\n <span>British Telecom<\/span>\n <span>McCain<\/span>\n <span>Kyndryl<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n <div class=\"cta-block\">\n <h2>Get help building your case<\/h2>\n <p>\n Book a working session with our team. 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