AI-driven

Sourcing

Run RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, and reverse auctions on a network of 600M+ verified suppliers. AI drafts your evaluation framework, scores every response, and recommends the award. Sourcing events that took months land in days.

By the numbers

Sourcing by the numbers.

65%
Faster sourcing cycles
3x
More supplier responses
12%
Average cost savings
< 1 week
First RFQ live

The use case

From sourcing event to signed contract. In days, not quarters.

Procurement teams running RFQs that drag on for weeks — suppliers chased over email, evaluation in spreadsheets, bid comparison done in PowerPoint, contract handed off to legal in PDF.

Flowie publishes events to your supplier network in minutes, captures structured responses, AI evaluates across cost / quality / risk / delivery / ESG, surfaces the winners, and routes to a contract that lives in your CLM. Same platform, end to end.

For who

CPO / Strategic Sourcing
Quarterly RFP cycle. Suppliers don't respond on time.
Category Manager
Bid comparison in spreadsheets. No clean savings story.
Procurement Operations
Onboarding new suppliers takes longer than the RFP itself.
CFO / Finance
Negotiated savings never materialize in actual spend.

Capabilities

What Sourcing actually does.

01Capability

AI Architect drafts your RFx structure

Pick a type — RFI, RFQ, RFP, RFT, reverse auction. Drop in a description and a budget. The AI Architect generates a five-section evaluation framework with weighted scoring, suggests qualified suppliers from your network, and adjusts on the fly when you add requirements like sustainability or ESG. The first thirty minutes of a sourcing event compress into thirty seconds.

02Capability

Match suppliers from your network + the 600M+ entity graph

Every candidate scored on percentage match against your category, compliance posture, and historical performance. SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR pills surface inline so you know who clears the bar before you even open the proposal. Invite the top three with one click, expand to twelve when you want competition. Qualified shortlists in your inbox in under a minute.

03Capability

Run live reverse auctions with an AI negotiation strategist

Real-time bidding chart. Auto-extension on late bids. Reserve price kept confidential. Agent B4 monitors pace, benchmarks against market price, and recommends when to close to lock in gains. Routine packaging auctions land 18% below budget. Strategic categories see line-item-level negotiation in minutes, not weeks.

04Capability

AI Bid Analyst recommends the award with a reasoning chain

Multi-scenario comparison — lowest cost / best technical fit / split award — each scored on cost, compliance, risk. Savings vs. budget calculated end-to-end. Reasoning chain auditable for every recommendation. Award memos that took half a week now generate themselves and ship to the contract layer for execution.

Implementation

Live in weeks, not years.

Day 1

Connect

Plug Flowie into your ERPs, banks, and partner systems. No data migration, no integration team, no rip-and-replace.

Week 1

Ship

First workflow live in production. Your team uses it on real intake, match, payment, and reporting work — not in a sandbox.

Month 2

Scale

Multi-entity rollout. Compliance gates pass. Workflows expand to your full team and full ERP/partner stack.

Customer voice

What teams running on Sourcing say.

We cut our sourcing cycle from 6 weeks to 10 days. The AI evaluation alone saves our team 20 hours per event — no more spreadsheet tournaments, no more weighting debates after the fact. Suppliers get scored objectively against the criteria we set up front.
C

CPO

Chief Procurement Officer, Industrial group · 4 entities

6 weeks → 10 days cycle
Supplier discovery is the unlock for us. We used to source from the same 200 vendors out of habit. The 600M+ network surfaced 47 qualified bidders we'd never engaged for our last MRO event. Two of them won — and they're 14% under our incumbent.
PD

Procurement Director

Procurement Director, Mid-cap manufacturer

47 new qualified bidders surfaced
Category management was where the savings story died — too much manual work just to get a clean RFQ out the door. Now I run 3 sourcing events a week and actually have time for strategy. Average savings hit 12.4% last quarter.
CM

Category Manager

Category Manager · Indirect, Distribution group

12.4% avg savings, 3 events/wk

Asked & answered

Buyers ask us this.

How long does it take to run our first sourcing event?

Most teams publish their first RFQ within a week. We provide templates for common categories and help configure evaluation criteria during onboarding.

Can we integrate with our existing supplier database?

Yes. Flowie imports your supplier master data from any ERP or spreadsheet. Existing suppliers are matched against the network automatically.

How does AI evaluation handle complex multi-criteria scoring?

You define weighted criteria (cost, quality, risk, delivery, sustainability). AI scores each bid objectively, flags anomalies, and ranks suppliers — but final decisions are always yours.

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