Buyers of Direct Materials and MRO Products: Explore a New, Free Way to Identify Qualified Suppliers
ThomasNet.com Team to Demonstrate Free Supplier Discovery Platform at Ariba Live, April 7-9 in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV – Procurement professionals looking to identify new suppliers of direct materials and MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) products are invited to receive a customized tour of ThomasNet.com®, industry’s leading free supplier discovery and product sourcing platform.
During Ariba Live, April 7-9 in Las Vegas, the ThomasNet.com team will demonstrate how its flagship application makes it easy for buyers to discover, qualify, evaluate and engage with the right manufacturers, distributors and service companies.
ThomasNet.com, today’s Thomas Register, features over 700,000 North American industrial and commercial suppliers that can be qualified quickly and easily by location, ownership status and quality certifications. In-depth company profiles help in the decision to shortlist these suppliers.
Other Key Applications
The free platform offers five other applications which are designed to meet specific sourcing challenges. For example, its Supplier Diversity Application provides one free central source to discover over 37,000 woman-owned, minority, disadvantaged and small businesses. A new Custom Quotes application puts an engineering team on the hunt for five qualified machine shops to satisfy buyers’ RFQs for custom manufacturing services.
As a bronze sponsor, the ThomasNet.com team, led by Audience Outreach Manager Kristin Carty, will be available to not only conduct tours, but take requests for free onsite team training of the platform. For more information, please contact her at kcarty@thomasnet.com.
About ThomasNet’s Supplier Discovery Platform
ThomasNet.com is the leading platform for supplier discovery and selection of OEM, MRO and other products and services. This free platform serves procurement professionals, engineers, plant and facility management and other buyers from corporations, educational institutions, government agencies, the military and small businesses. It also serves manufacturers, distributors, and service companies throughout North America who want to get found by these buyers. For nearly a century ThomasNet’s “big green books” – the Thomas Register -- were considered indispensable to B2B buyers and manufacturers alike. Today, the company offers a broad range of online solutions to facilitate every step of the supplier discovery process.
