Supplier Sourcing

Optimize your travel program with innovative sourcing strategies.

Source the right supplier mix to drive cost savings, reduce carbon emissions, and improve the traveler experience

Saving opportunities
Avoid missed savings opportunities

Static sourcing events lead to missed opportunities for optimization throughout the year

Improve supplier sourcing
Redirect your time and resources

Negotiating your entire supplier portfolio every year requires high effort for diminishing returns

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Ensure your rates are competitive

Prices are constantly fluctuating, and your negotiated rates may not be competitive half-way through the year

Sourcing can eat up a lot of time and effort

Business goals and market conditions are always changing. It’s crucial to know you’re getting the best deals, and your travelers are taking advantage of the deals you spend so much time negotiating.

Advito’s experts can help you source the right supplier mix. Our consultants have years of experience sourcing air, hotel, ground, and payment programs. We will:

  • Lead negotiations with suppliers and manage the RFP process
  • Find opportunities for leverage that support your goals
  • Implement innovative ongoing spend management techniques
Supplier Sourcing

Calculate your potential savings now

Our approach drives results. Achieve incremental savings and prove the value of travel.
Multimodal approach to supplier sourcing

Take a multimodal approach to your supplier strategy

Integrate air, rail, and car to adopt a multimodal approach and optimize your travel spend, maximize sustainability, and increase traveler satisfaction in your program. You’ll create stronger leverage to negotiate better deals and expand your contract coverage to identify missed savings opportunities.

Over the past five years, 90% of Advito clients have adopted a (DPM) approach to build and constantly optimize their air program. By adding ground into this framework, we’re helping clients reduce the amount of effort spend on annual sourcing and realize significant YOY savings.

Source sustainable suppliers

Use your sourcing engagements to find the partners who support your sustainability goals.

Our experts can help you source the most sustainable suppliers across air, hotel, rail, and car, leveraging our proprietary methodology for accurately measuring business travel emissions. We’ll determine which suppliers your travelers should be booking to decrease carbon emissions and develop engaging marketing strategies to drive share shift and educate your stakeholders.

Bring new leverage to your air negotiations.

An air sourcing engagement with Advito can help you:

  • Make data-driven decisions. Using our propriety Airfare predictor analytics tool, we’ll provide intelligence-backed recommendations to improve negotiation terms. Turn data into incremental savings.
  • Build the right travel policy. Craft your policy based on predictive intelligence. Determine factors like the best advance booking window, time to travel, connecting point, and more.
  • Influence travelers. Once your program is in place, our industry-leading Traveler Engagement experts can build communication strategies designed to drive the most value out of your preferred program

Drive savings beyond sourcing in your hotel program

Now is the time to take back the wheel of your hotel program.

Historically, sourcing has been considered the key to a successful hotel program. But these days you’re up against smarter suppliers with increasingly sophisticated data in a completely changed travel industry. Advito’s experts bring new, sophisticated strategies proven to drive more value with less effort. Our leading will help you stay one step ahead of suppliers to ensure you’re getting – and keeping – the best deals.

Drive savings beyond sourcing in your hotel program

Keep travelers safe by partnering with the right travel risk management provider

Not all companies have the internal resources to handle all aspects of travel risk management, such as the provision of 24/7 medical and security support or traveler safety training. Outsourcing help from a third-party provider can help you fill in these gaps. With a broad understanding of the travel safety and security landscape, our experts can provide support every step of the way of sourcing a provider from RFI/RFP preparation and negotiations to final selections and implementation support.

  • RFI/RFP development & support: We’ll outline the travel safety and security requirements specific to your organization, ensuring potential providers understand your needs
  • RFI/RFP distribution: We’ll launch the RFI/RFP and act as the primary point of contact with suppliers throughout the process
  • Provider evaluation and selection: We leverage our broad industry knowledge to identify and evaluate the most qualified and reliable travel risk management providers.
  • Negotiation and implementation support: Secure the best terms with our expert negotiation strategies, designed to optimize your contracts and safeguard your interests.

“We were years into a seller’s market with significant volume in compressed markets, so we needed to be creative with how we were going to minimize YOY increases. By taking a step back and understanding how we were creating value and measuring savings, we were able to simplify the process and focus our energy where it mattered – on rate, high volume hotels and markets, and partnerships.”

Amy Perrone

SMM & Hotel Program Manager,
Genentech

“This is really where the value comes from, I need to focus on what I must to do run our travel program every day. It’s important to have Advito looking at the data on my behalf, weighing our program options, and making recommendations.”

Marc Zuber

Group Procurement Manager,
Travel & Event Planning, Nestle

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Whether your goal is to understand your air travel footprint, build the optimal ground supplier portfolio, discover your hotel negotiation leverage, develop a communications plan, or to decrease carbon emissions – Advito is here to help you succeed.

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