Our Services and Expertise
Supplier Sourcing
Identifying the right suppliers from the “sea” of companies is time-consuming and requires intensive research. Our sourcing experts use more than 50 databases and their knowledge about sources to research suppliers.
Especially the selection of the right source is of high relevance, because the higher the quality of the source the higher the quality of the results. The research is carried out both nationally and internationally – in order to obtain a as complete list as possible of potential suppliers throughout the world. GS SOURCING & R&D SUPPORT brings together the multitude of companies from different sources and checks each company for relevance. This “longlist” will be qualified.
In the second step we focus to qualify and reduce the longlist to a “shortlist”. The potential suppliers are post-qualified and evaluated based on specific requirement criteria of our customers. In consultation with the customer, these are usually general criteria such as company size, creditworthiness, production locations or specific requirements such as technical competencies, production capacities, innovative capabilities and more .
The shortlist obtained in this way forms the basis for selection of the best suppliers. For deep dive, GS experts create customer-specific company profiles of the suppliers with the highest potential.
Patent Analysis
For product intelligence patent analysis is something else. It can be used for different purposes like e.g.
- Key manufacturers and suppliers can be identified
- Substitute technologies can be found
- Patent disputes or issues can be proofed
- Market trends on the product side
Our experts specialists have many years of experience using patent databases for market purposes. If you are interested get in touch with our experts.
Purchase of Products and Samples
Working with new products and materials is the basis of the work of research and development departments. However, the procurement of products and samples is very time-consuming for many companies, as it is a unique process each time.
New products must always be suitable for the potential applications, but whether the new products are suitable only becomes apparent in the context of the application, which is tested by the research and development departments.
When sourcing products and samples, our global sourcing experts support our customers from the industry, who like to stay in the background in the early stages of a development. Interested? Than contact our GS experts.
Product Data and Specification
To get a first impression for what kind of applications new products and materials can be useful product data and specifications can be helpful. This insights support R&D departments to choose what product might fit to their demands. To support R&D departments the GS-experts identify potential suppliers and obtain product data and specification information.
Ask our expert for help if you need support in your R&D department.