UNDERSTAND WHICH EAUCTION TO USE Market Dojo have a number of blogs about reverse auctions, which type to use and when, however, customers can still feel a little nervous when tak...more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Auction Type Flow Chart by logging in and pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Lot Type Flow Chart by logging in and pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Participant User Guide by pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Reverse eAuction Participant User Guide by pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide for Advanced Lots by pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide for Simple Lots by pressing the .pdf button below....more
Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement activities. We believe in maki...more
Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement activities. We believe in mak...more
If you are a supplier to any business using SIM Dojo, the following guidelines are to help you get onboarded as swiftly as possible. All our solutions are designed to be extreme...more
If you are a supplier to any business using Market Dojo's eSourcing solution, the following guidelines are to help you efficiently take part in any tendering events. All our sol...more
Our Business Case aims to provide you with all of the information on how our current and previous clients have used our tools. We have business cases for each one of our products a...more
This guide is designed to provide some helpful advice and tips for when you need to bolster your participant involvement but are not sure where to start. By using a structured and ...more
This guide aims to help Hosts when they are looking to involve incumbent participants, as well as new participants, in an e-sourcing activity and do not want to risk damaging their...more
If you are facing a bit of resistance from some of your suppliers to e-Sourcing, here are some tips. Please also see our guide on ‘How to enrol participants’ from our res...more
UNDERSTAND WHICH EAUCTION TO USE Market Dojo have a number of blogs about reverse auctions, which type to use and when, however, customers can still feel a little nervous when tak...more
It is possible to start sourcing with Sourcing Dojo immediately after purchasing a licence, however in order to get the most out of the tool there are a number of setting...more
The Admin Settings allow you to configure your account to make it work for you. They can be accessed by clicking on “Admin” in the top right hand corner of your scree...more
In order to get the most out of your SRM Dojo account, there are a number of essential steps as well as some recommended optional steps. Log in to download the below chec...more
Although there are specific settings relating to each module, the settings below relate to the usage of Market Dojo as a whole. In order to get the most out of Market Doj...more
Before starting to add new contracts to your account, we recommend checking that you’ve completed a number of steps. Log in to download the below checklist to make sure...more
Before finalising your SIM Dojo onboarding process and inviting suppliers, we recommend checking that you’ve completed a number of steps. Log in to download the below c...more
Individual Sourcing Dojo users can easily get up and running within a matter of minutes with no system configuration, however in order to get the most out of the tool wit...more
This guide is designed to cover all basic elements of utilising SIM Dojo to onboard suppliers, however please be aware that not every section will be relevant to all. For...more
Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement activities. We believe in maki...more
Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement activities. We believe in mak...more
A flow chart showing the process of SIM Dojo for Participants ...more
A guide on how to create and manage your SIM Dojo. This guide will cover the steps involved in setting up and running an onboarding event in SIM Dojo ...more
A Flow Chart of Market Dojo for Participants. Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier eng...more
Frequently Asked Questions for Hosts. Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement ...more
A process flow to show you the steps needed within a Sourcing Dojo event. ...more
An overview of the notifications Market Dojo sends to your participants during an event. Market Dojo will send Intelligent Notifications to your suppliers 12-36 hours before ke...more
Suppliers in SIM Dojo are assigned a number of statuses in order to make it clear to the Host where they are in the process. There are three important types of status ...more
Before you get started using your Contract Dojo account, it’s important that you’ve considered what information you would like to store so that you can get this set up in your...more
This guide is designed to help Superhosts get their SRM account fully set up before making it available to their internal users. SRM Dojo is a tool that manages not only your su...more
If you are a supplier to any business using SIM Dojo, the following guidelines are to help you get onboarded as swiftly as possible. All our solutions are designed to be extreme...more
If you are a supplier to any business using Market Dojo's eSourcing solution, the following guidelines are to help you efficiently take part in any tendering events. All our sol...more
We love what we do. We care about procurement and helping customers achieve results quickly. We have felt that for too long procurement professionals have had to deal with complex ...more
For our next time saving trick, Market Dojo would like to welcome you to our new Category Hub. The purpose of the category hub is to provide Category Guides for tenders and offe...more
Welcome to part 3 of our series on transformational bidding, a powerful and effective method for capturing complex pricing models within Market Dojo. This blog is going to look ...more
Welcome to our second part on our new transformational bidding developments. These features allow you to create advanced pricing lot structures with a variety of new dimensions. S...more
Introduction This is the first blog in a series discussing how transformational bidding can be used to negotiate complex tenders more effectively. It’s not just about the price...more
As Online Negotiation Events have been around for at least 15 years now, we believe the timing is right to dispel some of the many myths that this approach has garnered. This guide...more
This tutorial shows you how to bid using a bid template. A bid template allows you to use Excel to fill out your bids. It is useful on events with a large number of lots and can be...more
During the Event, you shall most likely wish to ask the Host questions about it. The Message Board is a fantastic way to go about this as everything is in one place for you, includ...more
After you have been let into the event you will be able to see the Document tab. This tab will let you download documents that have been uploaded by the host and here you can also ...more
This tutorial explains how you place bids in a Request for Quotation. The process for placing bids in an RFQ is the same as for Qualification bids and in an e-Auction itself, makin...more
The Message Board is a really useful feature to keep all your communication in one place. This tutorial talks you through how to use this feature....more
Auctions should always be run in a fair, open and organised fashion. This guide outlines the important factors you should have in mind whilst hosting your auction event and aims t...more
This guide has been written to provide you with some tools to assist you with the preparation and conducting of face-to-face negotiations. The guide highlights simple strategies an...more
It is well known that an Online Negotiation Event is only one method for establishing the market price for goods or services. It is certainly not applicable in all instances, parti...more
This is a guide that you do not find too often, as it gives away some key hints and tips that most hosts do not want you to know. However, we believe in freedom of information and ...more
An important part of any sourcing event is providing the right information to your participants. A way of doing this is to provide them with supporting documentation, be it your ow...more
For those Hosts on the Full Licence, you can carry out a mass upload of Hosts into your own private database and allocate those Hosts into your own defined groups, such as category...more
For those Hosts on the Full Licence, you can carry out a mass upload of participants into your own private database and allocate those participants into your own defined groups, su...more
There are a number of spend categories which have hundreds if not thousands of line items. Rather than having to create or upload thousands of items onto the Market Dojo software, ...more
When creating a new Sourcing Event, you are able to upload a list of participants to the Event via a spreadsheet, rather than adding them manually. This template is pre-prepared fo...more
Within our software you now have the ability to upload your Lots in one fell swoop, which means you can very much use the Lots as individual Line Items. Use this template to upload...more
Occasionally a host may wish to advertise or promote the event to the market outside of the market dojo software. To make this easy for you, we have provided a template "brief" ...more
To be used in conjunction with the above document, this is the matrix of questions that any organisation should be interrogating each spend category with in order to prioritise eac...more
As part of our continued effort to provide useful category-specific templates, please use this template as an example approach to capturing and outlining specific road transport de...more
If I was to single out the most frequent question, or more specifically, objection, I am asked by procurement professionals when discussing the idea of moving to an eSour...more
For our next time saving trick, Market Dojo would like to welcome you to our new Category Hub. The purpose of the category hub is to provide Category Guides for tenders and offe...more
To improve your category spend, our guides help you take a strategic approach to analysing your data to maximize your opportunities for savings. Our guides also include a category ...more
This guide is written to help you right from the beginning when all you may have in front of you is 12 months worth of data and the objective to find the market prices on the vario...more
To be used in conjunction with the above document, this is the matrix of questions that any organisation should be interrogating each spend category with in order to prioritise eac...more
For certain categories there is a tried and tested "best practice" approach to maximising the returns. This guide highlights some of the more common categories that are negotiated ...more
Since its inception last year most organisations have adapted their processes to meet the data protection regulations set out by GDPR on 25th May 2018. However, following the ba...more
For those Hosts on the Full Licence, you can carry out a mass upload of Hosts into your own private database and allocate those Hosts into your own defined groups, such as category...more
For those Hosts on the Full Licence, you can carry out a mass upload of participants into your own private database and allocate those participants into your own defined groups, su...more
There are a number of spend categories which have hundreds if not thousands of line items. Rather than having to create or upload thousands of items onto the Market Dojo software, ...more
When creating a new Sourcing Event, you are able to upload a list of participants to the Event via a spreadsheet, rather than adding them manually. This template is pre-prepared fo...more
Within our software you now have the ability to upload your Lots in one fell swoop, which means you can very much use the Lots as individual Line Items. Use this template to upload...more
This template can be used to explain to participants how to bid in currencies other than the one you have specified. It refers the participants to an independent and reliable sourc...more
In case you would like to see what a completed example of the above document should look like, please review this example on an annual packaging supplies contract. You will hopeful...more
This document can be used as a crib sheet of all the key points that you may wish to include when you create your documentation pack. For example, informing your participants who y...more
Occasionally a host may wish to advertise or promote the event to the market outside of the market dojo software. To make this easy for you, we have provided a template "brief" ...more
You might like to give your Participants a short guide on bidding during the qualification process and the auction. This also covers contingency plans and the auction close. You ca...more
This template can be used to explain to participants how to bid in currencies other than the one you have specified. It refers the participants to an independent and reliable sourc...more
For any organisation or individual that requires a confidentiality agreement between themselves and whoever might be viewing the information, we have provided an example NDA which ...more
As part of our continued effort to provide useful category-specific templates, please use this template as an example approach to capturing and outlining specific road transport de...more
Effective procurement strategy has never been so important, during this time of crisis. Supply chain professionals will undoubtedly be faced with minimising the impact of any di...more
Market Dojo is supporting businesses across the globe to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on their supply chains. Here are the top ways we can help you now: Read more here...more
Working from home? If you’re a procurement professional working remotely, our solutions are here to help. We have focused on ten key areas to highlight how Market Dojo is he...more
2018 was a fantastic year for Market Dojo, with many new customers, a vast increase in our staff numbers and more users in our system than ever before. We have put together the bel...more
We have discussed previously how, to the procurement industry, Reverse Auctions are seen in a similar vein to Marmite. Some individuals love them, use them on an almost daily basis...more
Check out our latest infographic on our lighter version of Market Dojo - Quick Quotes. Create rapid RFQ's eliminating the need for email and centralise all the information for all ...more
Discover our Quick Quotes Infographic that discusses the benefits and features of our Quick Quotes functionality....more
This guide is based upon the many thousands of eAuctions run on our software, we’ve compiled this handy guide to help you create your next eAuction. Discover the different types ...more
Discover our Beginners Guide to Reverse Auctions that discusses exactly what you need to know about reverse auctions....more
Market Dojo recently conducted a study into the barriers of adopting reverse auctions. This research featured results from a range of different procurement professionals and coveri...more
Every year, our development team commissions a third party to test the security of the Market Dojo platform. This specialised piece of work is known as a ‘Penetration Test’ and...more
We have discussed previously how, to the procurement industry, Reverse Auctions are seen in a similar vein to Marmite. Some individuals love them, use them on an almost daily basis...more
On Wednesday we were delighted to host the CIPS Central London branch event and give Market Dojo the opportunity to assess the region’s online negotiation skills! The event ...more
Market Dojo recently conducted a study into the barriers of adopting reverse auctions. This research featured results from a range of different procurement professionals and coveri...more
Procurement Transformation. Nick ford, Executive Director at Odesma discussed his experiences and thoughts on using eSourcing to create real value and transform procurement practi...more
Bed of Nails & Robot. Richard Bell, former Procurement Director of Averda discussed how he implemented procurement solutions around the world and the impact of Robotic Process...more
People and Process Success in Government. Rob Lees, Commercial Director of ISS Ministry of Defence presented on creating success through implementing practical processes and people...more
Resetting the supplier & buyer dynamic. Robert Copeland, Procurement Director of G4S in the UK & Ireland presented on the subject of re-evaluating supplier and buyer relat...more
Establishing an eSourcing Centre of Excellence. Simon Boggis, the former CPO of Ceva Logistics discusses his experience in transforming a decentralised procurement team to deliver ...more
Baker's ingredients lists for a successful eAuctions. Terri Hudson, Managing Director of Baker Wanless Ltd discusses the different ways to make a successful eSourcing event and the...more
The Human Condition. Iain McKenna, Managing Director of Sourcing Solved discussed how you can attract the best procurement talent to complement your technology and ensure that the...more
eSourcing is the best way to buy energy! Keith Moore, Owner of Fairnet Commercial Services presented on how he advises on using eSourcing solutions to deliver the best value for b...more
Creating real value from eSourcing Alun Rafique, Co-founder of Market Dojo introduces the inaugural event and discuss the topic of creating real value from eSourcing....more
Using Different Ways of Working to Achieve 25% Savings Graham Woodison, former Senior Purchasing Manager at Specsavers and founder of Challenge25 presented his specialism in impro...more
This presentation was given at UWE on the 19th April 2011. It focused on using e-Auctions to reduce your procurement cycle on costs as well as best practice....more
Over the last week we fulfilled our invitations to host lectures for several business schools, specifically those of Bristol and Greenwich. We've always enjoyed presenting o...more
The Market Dojo team arrived at the Grange Tower hotel for the annual CIPS conference just in time for registration and the keynote speech from Dr John Glen of the Cranfield School...more
Last week we were generously invited by our partners, ArcBlue, to join their exhibition stand and sponsored dinner at the CIPS Middle East Conference 2015 in Abu Dhabi. ArcBl...more
It is possible to start sourcing with Sourcing Dojo immediately after purchasing a licence, however in order to get the most out of the tool there are a number of setting...more
The Admin Settings allow you to configure your account to make it work for you. They can be accessed by clicking on “Admin” in the top right hand corner of your scree...more
In order to get the most out of your SRM Dojo account, there are a number of essential steps as well as some recommended optional steps. Log in to download the below chec...more
Although there are specific settings relating to each module, the settings below relate to the usage of Market Dojo as a whole. In order to get the most out of Market Doj...more
Before starting to add new contracts to your account, we recommend checking that you’ve completed a number of steps. Log in to download the below checklist to make sure...more
Before finalising your SIM Dojo onboarding process and inviting suppliers, we recommend checking that you’ve completed a number of steps. Log in to download the below c...more
Individual Sourcing Dojo users can easily get up and running within a matter of minutes with no system configuration, however in order to get the most out of the tool wit...more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Auction Type Flow Chart by logging in and pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Lot Type Flow Chart by logging in and pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Participant User Guide by pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Reverse eAuction Participant User Guide by pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide for Advanced Lots by pressing the .pdf button below....more
Download our Sourcing Dojo Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide for Simple Lots by pressing the .pdf button below....more
This guide is designed to cover all basic elements of utilising SIM Dojo to onboard suppliers, however please be aware that not every section will be relevant to all. For...more
Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement activities. We believe in maki...more
Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement activities. We believe in mak...more
This guide has been created to demonstrate all of the SIM Dojo capabilities and explains how to customise your supplier onboarding processes. For many companies, not all elements w...more
A flow chart showing the process of SIM Dojo for Participants ...more
A guide on how to create and manage your SIM Dojo. This guide will cover the steps involved in setting up and running an onboarding event in SIM Dojo ...more
A Flow Chart of Market Dojo for Participants. Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier eng...more
Frequently Asked Questions for Hosts. Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement ...more
A process flow to show you the steps needed within a Sourcing Dojo event. ...more
An overview of the notifications Market Dojo sends to your participants during an event. Market Dojo will send Intelligent Notifications to your suppliers 12-36 hours before ke...more
Suppliers in SIM Dojo are assigned a number of statuses in order to make it clear to the Host where they are in the process. There are three important types of status ...more
Before you get started using your Contract Dojo account, it’s important that you’ve considered what information you would like to store so that you can get this set up in your...more
This guide is designed to help Superhosts get their SRM account fully set up before making it available to their internal users. SRM Dojo is a tool that manages not only your su...more
Step by step guide on how to create an eSourcing event in Market Dojo. Includes information on registering, creating an event, questionnaire's and using lots to capture pricing inf...more
Our Host Process Guide comprises of all you need to know to use Market Dojo and the process flow. This guide will take you through how to use our software, step by step and also t...more
This tutorial shows you the first step of any sourcing event as a participant - what to do if you have received an invitation e-mail. Here you can hear what to do with the e-mail, ...more
In essence this is the User Guide for the market dojo software, except it is more related to the process rather than the software. We are so confident that the software itself with...more
This guide has been written to provide you with some tools to assist you with the preparation and conducting of face-to-face negotiations. The guide highlights simple strategies an...more
In essence this is the User Guide for the market dojo software from the participants perspective, except it is more related to the process rather than the software. We are so confi...more
Market Dojo has recently created a range of guides, research and tutorials that will assist hosts and participants to get the most out of the Market Dojo tool. The col...more
The User Hierarchy is the perfect feature for adding your colleagues, clients, stakeholders, and giving them various permissions on your events. It is completely free to add people...more
This tutorial guides you through setting up your own white labelled portal with the software and shows you what it looks like. This is very easy to do and makes the software even m...more
Once you have signed in, you may wish to upload your own company logo and menu colours to make the software feel like your own, not just for you but also your participants. You can...more
With Quick Quotes, it's difficult to find reasons not to use it. My team think its great. We were worried everyone would say you send too much stuff but everyone's feedback has been “we love it”.
William Bridgman Managing Director at Warren Services
I managed to generate a 48% saving in 2 hours so was very happy with the result! I would definitely recommend these guys. I honestly don't have a bad word to say about them. Excellent service, excellent software and a fantastic experience.
Tara Hunt Category Manager, Arqiva
The company and people are intuitive, young and enthusiastic in nature. Specsavers will be looking to use Market Dojo as a ‘business as usual’ tool and regard it as an integral part of their negotiation toolkit.
Jasper Raby Procurement Consultant, Specsavers
