Corporate Procurement Survey

Thank you for helping us understand the procurement and supplier diversity challenges faced by large companies.

Section 1: Your Role & Company

Your Full Name

Your Job Title

Company Name

Section 2: Current Processes & Pains

Could you walk me through the last time you had to find a new SMME supplier? What was that process like?

What are the most time-consuming or frustrating parts of your current supplier discovery and vetting process?

Section 3: Risk & Compliance

What are the biggest risks your company faces when onboarding a new, small supplier?

When you think about your B-BBEE and ESD goals, what are your biggest challenges?

Section 4: Solution & Feature Feedback

We're building ProcureLink SA, a platform to connect corporates with a network of deeply vetted, procurement-ready SMMEs, complete with risk analysis and tender management tools.

What is your initial reaction to this concept?

Very valuable, this solves a major problem. Somewhat valuable, it could be useful. Not very valuable, we have this covered.

Section 5: Feature Value

Please rate how valuable the following features would be for your team (1 = Not at all, 5 = Extremely valuable).

A **rigorous, human-led verification** of all supplier compliance documents, saving your team admin time.

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A predictive **Dynamic Trust Score™** that uses AI to forecast a supplier's reliability.

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A **Confidential Peer-Review System** to see ratings and notes on a supplier from other trusted corporates.

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An **integrated e-Tender module** to manage the entire workflow from shortlisting to proposal evaluation.

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Section 6: Final Thoughts & Follow-up

If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about your current procurement or ESD process, what would it be?

Roughly, what does your company budget annually for supplier data, compliance, or discovery tools?

Thank you for your invaluable insights. May we contact you to discuss our Pilot Program in the future?