The small business guidebook to managing RFPs
Chapter 9 - Organization is a skill
Many of the skills required for a great procurement professional are in the organization category. When faced with so many open RFPs, the only way to make it is to be as organized as possible. Let’s Recap:
- Know what you’re looking for – ensure to get all your requirements
- Be precise in your invite email subject line – no vagueness
- Pre-Qualify your suppliers
- Organize your information as it comes in
- Keep Track of Vendors
- Simplify Evaluation
- Present Key findings to stakeholders
- Sharing and save key documents
Chapter 10 - You don't have to do it alone
Yes, you can do many of the guide points outlined yourself independently, or you can use a procurement tool such as PowerRFP.
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Know what you are looking for
- 2. Be precise on your email subject line
- 3. Always pre-qualify your suppliers before the invite.
- 4. Organize the information as it roll-in
- 5. Keep track of your vendors
- 6. Simplify evaluation
- 7. Presenting key findings and summarize
- 8. Take advantage of existing tools to sharing and archive key documents
- 9. Organization is skill
- 10. You don’t have to do it alone