We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Positive Purchasing, a company renowned for providing world-leading digital platforms, high-impact training, and consulting for strategic procurement and negotiation. This partnership marks a significant step forward in our mission to transform procurement.
Positive Purchasing combines digital platforms, training, assessment tools, and proven methodologies to deliver improvements in companies’ purchasing and procurement outcomes. Together, we aim to remove risk in the supply base and provide procurement teams with the speed and confidence needed to make informed decisions when creating their category strategies.
Our AI-powered supplier discovery platform will integrate with Positive Purchasing’s Procleus and Capella, offering access to high-quality data and analytics, ESG performance analysis, and market category data. This collaboration allows procurement teams to rapidly review vendors, saving both time and effort.
With this partnership, we are confident that procurement professionals can now become experts on any market or product category and experience a new level of efficiency and effectiveness. By merging our advanced AI capabilities with Positive Purchasing’s expertise, we are set to redefine the standards of strategic procurement. Forestreet platform is now available within Positive Purchasing Procleus and integrated with Capella.
Jonathan O’Brien, CEO of Positive Purchasing, says:
”The partnership between Forestreet and Positive Purchasing is nothing short of the perfect match – Combining Forestreet’s data driven category intelligence with our 5i® Category Management method, and integrating with our guided category strategy creator, Capella, provides the next generation of category management thinking and practice.”
David Doyle, CEO & Co-Founder of Forestreet, says:
”We are delighted to be working with Positive Purchasing. Our strategy at Forestreet is to build the best technology and then embed it with partners who have deep procurement know-how. Positive Purchasing have world-leading methods and experience in this area and together we can achieve a new level in effective supplier discovery.”
About Positive Purchasing
Positive Purchasing enables strategic procurement in organisations the world over through their sector leading SaaS and digital platforms, tools and training for strategic procurement and negotiation. The result is new value from the supply base that delivers organisational goals, lowers costs, reduces risk, unlocks supply-side innovation, and establishes a sustainable supply base. Positive Purchasing’s digital suite, Procleus, includes everything needed outside of the P2P tech stack, together with specialist programs to equip you for strategic procurement and drive new capability in Category Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Negotiation and Sustainable Procurement, each built on proven methodologies developed over the last 21 years. Throughout this time, Positive Purchasing have established themselves as leaders in driving strategic procurement and boosting performance and competitive advantage across FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies spanning multiple industry sectors worldwide.
