The professional services procurement market is in full transformation. Faced with an uncertain economic context, procurement departments must adopt an even more strategic vision to guarantee cost control and the sustainability of their activities while continuing to innovate. In this context, more than 70% of companies plan to increase their use of external services.
At the same time, the professional services offer is fragmenting, with a multiplication of players under different banners and growing tension on certain skills. According to the World Bank, freelancers are accounting for 12% of the global work force, and is still expanding.
Finally, the role of the buyer is evolving, integrating increasingly digitalized tools and strategic issues such as responsible procurement.
In 2025, Eleven VMS continues its ambition to offer procurement departments a product capable of responding to the strategic priorities of the market. To do this, our product strategy is structured around three major axes : centralization, simplification and steering.
With this product strategy, Eleven VMS is not only a simple technological solution, but aims to be a lever for transformation for companies.
Centralization : a single platform to manage all services
Companies are often confronted with a multiplication of solutions : ERPs, proprietary systems, Excel files, emails and phone calls that complicate procurement management.
Effective management is based on effective reporting, the prerequisite of which is to centralize all information in one place. Today, however, data is often scattered across different tools, making its use complex and unreliable. About 60% of companies say they do not have consolidated visibility over all their data.
To ensure optimal control, we want to be able to include all your external providers in our platform, whatever their contract (time and materials, fixed-price, CDS, ATG, ATU, etc.) and whatever their service (IT or non-IT).
To meet the growing demands of our clients, particularly internationally, we introduced, in February 2025, a fixed-price management module. This feature is added to the management of time and materials or hybrid engagements.
In 2010, less than 40% of companies had an e-procurement tool deployed. Today, it seems unthinkable for a structured company to operate without a procurement or IT solution.
Simplification : a smooth and interconnected experience
The multiplication of tools leads to a more complex job for buyers and operational teams : loss of time, risk of errors, waste of resources, non-compliance with internal processes, difficult adoption of new solutions.
Simplification is therefore at the heart of our strategy to offer a high-performance and intuitive product. Thanks to our VMS, our clients record a reduction in costs related to professional services procurement of 10% and an increase in performance of 20 to 25%. This is based in particular on three pillars :
An intuitive and simple platform : guided journeys and smart notifications ensure immediate adoption. Each user knows what to do and when to do it, thus reducing errors and optimizing procurement management.
A modular platform that adapts to your organization, not the other way around : we configure the tool according to your specific needs and procurement processes. Each entity can be configured individually to guarantee maximum flexibility. The addition of workflows ensures compliance with your processes.
An open and interconnected platform : our VMS integrates with your information system (global IS, HR or others) and the main e-Procurement tools on the market (SAP Ariba, Corcentric, Ivalua…). Thanks to our interfacing options, we avoid double entries, reduce errors and optimize processing time. Tailor-made support is provided by our Professional Services teams, who work closely with procurement departments and IT teams. In 2024, more than 20% of our clients engaged in a connection project between Eleven VMS and their ERP, and the trend is accelerating towards a unified procurement information system.
Eleven VMS has demonstrated its ability to adapt to complex environments, by simplifying processes while offering greater visibility to companies.
Steering : actionable KPIs for optimized management
Managing a large volume of projects and suppliers without clear indicators leads to a loss of visibility on costs, compliance and efficiency of procurement processes.
Before adopting a Vendor Management System (VMS), procurement departments struggle to use available data and to objectively compare suppliers, due to the lack of standard benchmarks. Decision-making then becomes complex and laborious.
To overcome these challenges, our advanced reporting module is organized around three levels of analysis :
Global performance : evaluates the use of the platform by operational teams and ensures compliance with procurement policies.
Supplier monitoring : measures the quality of suppliers through indicators such as compliance with rate cards or the conversion rate of RFPs.
Dynamic comparison : allows continuous adjustment of the supplier panel to guarantee access to the best partners.
From today, we are working to go even further with the integration of artificial intelligence to facilitate decision-making.
The financial optimization of procurement is a key issue, and 30% of companies regularly exceed their budget due to a lack of transparency on the rates charged.
In 2025, making Eleven VMS a strategic lever for professional services procurement
With this product strategy combining simplification, control and centralization, we are not only creating a tool, but we are becoming your strategic partner for the transformation and optimization of your procurement.
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