Sourcing opportunity calculator
See how much more sourcing your team could cover.
Build a directional opportunity case from your own RFP volume, effort, and spend. Active labor, elapsed cycle time, gross spend opportunity, and non-cash capacity stay separate.
Build your quick estimate
Use presets for a fast starting point. Open the refinement section only when you need a more specific scenario.
Team
Set the capacity and salary baseline.
Choose a preset or enter any sourcing headcount, including teams above 50.
Choose the closest salary tier per procurement FTE.
Sourcing environment
These choices describe the scenario; they do not add hidden multipliers.
Zinit can operate alongside the system selected here.
Choose the geography represented by your current timing and workload.
RFP workload
Use competitive sourcing events, not PO or invoice volume.
Include RFQs, tenders, and other competitive sourcing events.
Include setup, supplier follow-up, comparison, and award administration.
Spend and planning case
Use only spend you could realistically source through Zinit.
Move the slider for speed or type a more exact amount. Do not use total company spend.
These are editable assumptions, not Zinit benchmarks or guarantees.
Refine this estimateAdjust policy threshold, elapsed cycle time, and the three improvement assumptions separately.
The minimum deal value at which your policy requires a competitive event.
Count request or need identification through contract signature, including waiting time.
Your assumption for active procurement labor returned per event.
Your assumption for calendar time removed from each event.
Your finance-reviewed assumption applied only to the entered sourcing spend.
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This is a directional planning model, not a proposal or guarantee. All improvement rates are visitor-controlled assumptions. Gross spend opportunity is not an achieved saving. Time returned is non-cash capacity unless budgets actually decrease. The model uses a $0 buyer switching-cost assumption and excludes deal-specific commercial terms.
Review the formulas and sources ↓How the calculation works
- Current active workload. Annual sourcing events multiplied by hands-on labor hours per event. ERP and geography describe the scenario but add no hidden performance factor.
- Active labor returned. Current active workload multiplied by the selected effort-reduction assumption, capped at the entered team’s annual productive capacity.
- Elapsed cycle reduction. Current elapsed calendar days multiplied by the selected cycle-reduction assumption. Waiting time stays separate from active labor.
- Additional event capacity. Annual active labor returned divided by current hands-on hours per event. This is potential throughput, not a promise that extra events will occur.
- Gross spend opportunity. The selected planning rate applied only to annual spend the visitor expects to source through Zinit. It is a forecast before deal-specific fees, not an achieved saving.
- Capacity value. Annual active labor returned multiplied by salary-based hourly cost. It is reported as non-cash capacity unless staffing budgets actually decrease.