Training

Suppliers and Buyers can take advantage of CombineNet’s wide variety of training options.

CombineNet offers a wide variety of training options to ensure that users are able to take advantage of our advanced sourcing solutions quickly and efficiently. Video training, detailed user manuals and reference guides, online help, and on-site training are available to bring both users and suppliers up to speed on the use of CombineNet solutions.

Buyer Training is integral to the adoption of advanced sourcing technologies and strategies within your organization. CombineNet's buyer training ensures that sourcing teams have the knowledge they need to achieve the maximum benefit from their sourcing events.

• Event Manager training ensures that your team understands how to use CombineNet’s sourcing solutions to create new events via the RFxpress solution, and manage events with pre-configured Category Sourcing Solutions. All users are thoroughly trained on Event Management features to initiate events, set bidding timelines, manage reference documents, modify item information, manage and invite suppliers, monitor supplier bidding activity, conduct surrogate bidding, and answer supplier questions.
• Analytics Training provides extensive training on the analytics capabilities of CombineNet ASAP. During Analytics Training, your team learns how to use ASAP's Scenario Builder^SM to create and run scenarios, review reports, and evaluate potential costs and benefits associated with various allocation decisions.

Supplier Training is critically important to the success of your advanced sourcing events. CombineNet provides detailed, step-by-step training via Web videos and optional live training events for participating suppliers so they understand the benefits available to them through Expressive Bidding®, and how to use these flexible bidding features to put forth their best proposals.

Visit CombineNet’s Training and Support Center for assistance with CombineNet Sourcing Solutions. The Training and Support Center includes a comprehensive knowledgebase of help topics, video tutorials, user documentation, and contact information for CombineNet support.