Market Research and Benchmarking Services to Give You a Competitive Edge

Market Research and Market Intelligence Reports The key to a successful sourcing initiative, product launch, negotiation or solid supply chain is having the right market intelligence. Our market research and benchmarking services can ensure that your project, whatever it may be, is successful.

Need to know where your competitors or peers are buying from? Want to know where to build your next factory or distribution center? Need to identify sources of supply? Want to know the historical or predicted market conditions of a particular commodity? We can help!

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The new economy has tasked us all with doing more with less. At the same time, your company is trying to remain competitive and grow. Having the right information at the right time is critical to remaining best-in-class for every company in any industry. Source One offers solutions to help gathering market intelligence easier.

Sample Market Research and Benchmark Reports:


  • Historical Price Trending of Commodities (such as metals, fuels, petroleum based products, etc.)
  • Import Records for Particular Companies or Products
  • Peer Review of Supply Chain and Procurement Tactics
  • Benchmarking of Procurement and Sourcing Versus Your Industry
  • Benchmarking of Procurement and Sourcing Versus Other Industries
  • Geographical Reports for Infrastructure Build-Outs
  • Make versus Buy Analysis
  • Reviews of Existing Processes and Benchmarking vs. Best Practices
  • Supplier Identification Services & Competitor's B.O.M. Reviews
  • Market Conditions, Supplier Evaluation and Other Services to Help Negotiate with Vendor Base.


Source One is available to help with the smallest pieces of your strategic sourcing project or the entire life cycle from start to finish. Supplement your existing team and information with our data, or use our team to conduct the entire initiative.

Our market research and benchmarking services can help you to gauge where you are in the marketplace and can provide the market intelligence you need to maintain a competitive edge.

Market Intelligence from Multiple Sources

We are often asked what qualifies us to deliver market intelligence on a particular product, service or market. And that's a great question that you should ask from any supplier you are looking to hire. Here are just some of the reasons we are successful at benchmarking and market research:

Deep Databases Source One has been providing strategic sourcing services since 1992. Our database of historical prices, market conditions and prices is unparralled in the industry.
Cross Industry Experience Source One works in just about every industry. We collect data and information from similar industries and tangential technologies and can leverage that information into useful data to help companies in any industry.
Source Tools & Data From Other Companies Our e-sourcing technologies are in use by companies throughout the world. Every day, companies are running sourcing events and collecting data using our tools. Our access to that data allows us to quickly identify shifting market conditions on a global basis.
Supplier Fed As a leading Procurement Service Provider, suppliers realize the large market of opportunity our clients possess. Therefore, they are constantly feeding us data and information, sometimes months in advance of a product launch, in order for us to introduce that information to our clients.
Time Simply put, we have more time to focus on our initiatives. We don't have to deal with the day to day trials of managing your business, so we can focus exclusively on the tasks you need us to perform.

Sourcing Tools Give Us a Competitive Advantage.

Source One remains the only company in the industry to provide completely free e-sourcing tools to both buyers and suppliers.


In addition, other consulting firms and private websites license the tools to conduct their own sourcing events. Source One's access to this data means that dozens of events, running throughout the world are being conducted at any given moment, and our market data is growing at an exponential rate. We are able to leverage this data to benefit our clients.

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Customizable Research Reports for Any Industry

Throughout its 20+ year history, Source One has been engaged to perform market analysis reports in extremely diverse areas. Below are just some simple examples of recently reports we have delivered:

Cisco Router Equipment and Maintenance Contract Review - We were engaged by a hospital group to review the internal processes being used by their I.T. and Procurement Departments. We uncovered an ineffective scorecarding process and identified process improvements that could result in 20+% savings.


B.O.M. and Supplier Identification - We were engaged by one of the world's largest companies to identify existing sources of supply that their competitors may be using and conduct a general market assessment for a new market they were attempting to penetrate.


Geographical Research Report - We were engaged to deliver a supply chain assessment report outlining the risks (increased costs, geopolitical issues) and benefits (natural disaster avoidance, intellectual property protection, reduced leadtimes) of moving to a variety of different near-shore locations.


Make vs. Buy Report - An electronics manufacturer hired Source One to evaluate the long term positives and negatives of outsourcing to a contract electronic component assembler or buying an existing company and assembly line.