An e-sourcing suite, on this page, means the large suite and supplier-portal model. SuperNegotiate is the other approach: sourcing events run as one live thread. This page says how the approaches differ and when each fits. It does not name vendors, and it does not state another product's price or feature list.
Choose an e-sourcing suite when the work is the wider source-to-pay cycle. SuperNegotiate does less than a source-to-pay suite and is not trying to replace one. It does the part that happens after the bids arrive, and the event those bids belong to. Purely transactional catalogue buying is a P2P tool's job, not this. If what you buy is a catalogue order rather than a competitive event, a suite or a P2P tool is the better fit.
Choose a suite, or a system you run yourself, when the organisation needs an on-premise deployment as standard. The hosted SuperNegotiate tiers are SaaS only. We run the platform. Buyers use it in a browser. Suppliers join an event by emailed link, QR code, or a six-character event code. Self-hosting exists only as a separate, one-time paid perpetual license, priced on request. It is not one of the four hosted tiers, and it is not free software.
Choose something other than SuperNegotiate when the spend is single-source or sole-supplier, with no competitive tension. The product is for competitive sourcing. A thread with one supplier and no rival to concede against is a poor fit, and a suite that already holds that supplier relationship can be the better place to leave it.
Choose SuperNegotiate when you want the sourcing event in one live thread: the RFQ, the reverse auction, the negotiation, the technical evaluation and the award, shared by the buying team, their evaluators and the invited suppliers. Traditional e-sourcing tools collect quotes and rank them. Most tools stop once quotes are collected and ranked, leaving the negotiation to email. Here the negotiation stays in the thread.
Autopilot is how that negotiation runs. The buyer sets a target, a price or a savings percentage, and a floor it may not cross. Autopilot opens the conversation with every supplier, counters their pushback, trades payment days, warranty and lead time when price stalls, chases suppliers who go quiet, and runs all suppliers in parallel, including overnight. It reports why it stopped on each supplier: target met, supplier at equilibrium, or the clock ran out. It stops at the floor you set. Every price, concession, target check and floor check is computed by a deterministic rules engine against your own database, and each decision is auditable. No language model decides prices. An optional language layer can draft the wording of a supplier message. It is off unless enabled, it never sees a price, and with it off the engine writes from templates.
Recall is why a later event can start from an earlier one. It is a memory of supplier behaviour built from the buying organisation's own events: average concession, rounds to floor, reply rate, which message tone has worked on each supplier, item price history, and which rival a supplier concedes more against. Customer data stays in the customer's own tenant. It is never pooled with other customers, never sold back as a benchmark index, and no model is trained on it. The record exports to PDF, Excel or ZIP at any time.
That is a fit for a procurement, category or finance team that runs competitive sourcing and wants the negotiation itself handled. It includes repeat categories where supplier behaviour is worth learning, teams with more events than negotiators, and buyers who need an audit trail behind every award. A real sourcing event can be launched in the first session. There is no implementation project and no supplier onboarding programme in front of that first event. Suppliers do not create an account and they do not install software. A seat is a person on the buying side. Suppliers are not seats.
SuperNegotiate is a hosted, paid SaaS platform. It is not free software and not an open-source download. Published hosted prices, billed annually: Starter from £750 a month, which is £9,000 for the year, for 3 seats. Team is £1,650 a month. Business is £3,600 a month. Enterprise is from £8,250 a month. The first month on a hosted workspace is free and runs a real event, with your suppliers and real bids. First month free, then billed annually on the tier you choose. When the month ends you are on that tier, or you stop, and you can export the record before you go. The seat rules are on the pricing page. A capped trial with no account, five events per email address and six suppliers per event, is on the trial.
An e-sourcing suite here means the large suite and supplier-portal model: a system with a portal suppliers use, covering more of source-to-pay than the negotiation itself. This page does not name vendors and does not describe another product's price or feature list.
SuperNegotiate runs sourcing events, including RFQs, reverse auctions, technical evaluations and awards, as one live thread shared by buyers and suppliers. Autopilot negotiates every supplier in parallel against a target and a floor you set. Recall remembers how each supplier behaves, from your own events only, and that memory stays in your tenant.
No. Prices, concessions and floor checks are computed by a deterministic rules engine and are auditable line by line. A language layer may draft message wording only. It is off unless enabled and it never sees a price.
When you need the wider source-to-pay cycle, including catalogue and transactional buying, which is a P2P tool's job rather than this one. When you need an on-premise deployment as standard, because the hosted tiers are SaaS only. And when the spend is single-source or sole-supplier, with no competitive tension. Self-hosting SuperNegotiate is a separate paid perpetual license, priced on request, not a hosted tier.
It is hosted, paid SaaS. Starter is from £750 a month, billed annually. Team is £1,650 a month, Business is £3,600 a month, and Enterprise is from £8,250 a month. The first month is free, then you are billed annually on the tier you choose. Suppliers join by emailed link, QR code, or a six-character event code, with no account and nothing to install. Suppliers are not seats.
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