1-6.3 Postal Service Benefits

ISE can provide numerous benefits, and as a result the purchase/SCM team can:

• Establish that there is a market for the requirement.
• Confirm that the scope and objectives of the purchase are sound and achievable.
• Discover new, innovative, or alternative solutions.
• Underscore potential issues or problems with the project.
• Gain real world, first-hand knowledge of what suppliers can and cannot do.
• Package the need in a way so that the market is encouraged to respond and that real competition is stimulated.
• Create a requirement that is well framed, focused, feasible, and likely to interest the market.
• Identify potential market areas.
• Manage supplier expectations.
• Manage Postal Service expectations.
• Lay useful foundations for contract and relationship management by considering how the arrangement may work, including whether multi-supplier groups may respond to the requirement.