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.