Growing your trade with your local business community

Research, select and communicate with potential suppliers who you are not currently doing business with. Know where to direct your spend in order to support the local economy or small business community. Initiatives aimed at supporting the ‘local economy’, such as those benefiting from LEGI funding, create a requirement for the public sector to know who else they could be using as suppliers from their local community. It is also necessary to ensure that any opportunities are quickly and easily brought to the attention of prospective suppliers. Source Local is an add-on Observatory module that facilitates identification and communication with local businesses in those categories where your organisation currently spends £1,000 or more in total. The Source Local functionality has been designed to enable you to:

• Determine what proportion of the local supplier community is currently supplying your goods & services.
• Establish which categories represent the most fertile ground for the recruitment of local suppliers.
• Generate lists of prospective suppliers and export their contact details to allow rapid production of communications.
• Populate your advertising portal with details of prospective local suppliers, and push communications to them.

To see how Source Local can help your organisation achieve your local economy objectives then please contact us.