Marketing Support
We understand the important role that suppliers play in raising awareness of and marketing Buying Solutions framework agreements and managed services.
We provide a wide range of marketing support to suppliers to assist their efforts. Your Buying Solutions Category Manager will also be able to help with information about spending trends and briefings for your sales team.
To help you to market your framework agreements and make the most effective use of these brands, we have created a comprehensive branding guidelines document which can be downloaded from the Supplier Admin Suite.
There are a wide variety of Promotional Opportunities for suppliers. These include, exhibiting at events such as Procurement Solutions for the public sector* and participating in direct marketing initiatives to customers.
We also produce and distribute a wide range of Publications providing targeted information and promotional material, both in printed and electronic form and we have an active media relations strategy to place promotional material in key publications.
A comprehensive Welcome Pack providing information advice and guidance for new Buying Solutions suppliers is available to download from our Supplier Admin Suite.
We undertake Customer Value Research at 4 separate intervals each year, and interview over 1000 customers. Our latest research findings can be found on our Customer Value Research page.