Buyers prefer web to find suppliers
28 August 2012
New research shows procurement professionals are twice as likely to use Internet search engines to find suppliers than preferred supplier lists.
A poll by Kellysearch.com of 250 procurement specialists, dealing with annual spends in excess of £500,000, found that 42 per cent used a search engine compared with 20 per cent who used a preferred supplier list.
Other methods of locating a supplier that are more popular than using preferred supplier lists are word of mouth and websites.
Just 6 per cent...