The Sourcing Division has deployed an e-Sourcing tool called Tool@chats in France and in international locations to process its sourcing projects online.

Tool@chats accelerates the processing of sourcing projects and makes it possible to standardise the interactions between the Sourcing Division, Société Générale Group internal prescribers, suppliers and the legal teams. It allows for standardisation and dematerialisation of the management of requests fro proposals.

Tool@chats contributes to professionalising the process for all the stakeholders: provides transparency and real time visibility on projects and proposals, traceability of interactions between the parties; the responses to the requests for proposals are analysed on the basis of pre-set criteria.

It also enables the selected suppliers to take part in a reverse auction and submit their best proposal in real time and complete fairness.