In virtue of the magnitude of the expenditure size and of the enormous challenges in bid comparison and analysis that typically occurs in the Oil & Gas sourcing processes, particularly in Drilling and Completion Services and other key categories, ASI has found that Advanced Sourcing can generate very important savings and other benefits, such as significantly increasing the speed and efficiency of the sourcing cycle.
With this idea in mind ASI has developed a specialized Oil & Gas application, based the leading edge Combinatorial Optimization platform, that is aimed at capturing all the market value (in terms of alternative bids, market share discounts and bundle discounts), and finding the optimal item award decision so that all non economical aspects such as HSE, reliability, quality and delivery time are properly addressed, while achieving the best possible deal with the market
