Indirect Procurement
From the tail to the spine, bring intelligence to everything.
The only sourcing platform that unifies quoting, analysis, and historical pricing in a single AI-native experience.
Indirect Procurement
From the tail to the spine, bring intelligence to everything.
The only sourcing platform that unifies quoting, analysis, and historical pricing in a single AI-native experience.
Indirect Procurement
From the tail to the spine, bring intelligence to everything.
The only sourcing platform that unifies quoting, analysis, and historical pricing in a single AI-native experience.
Why indirect sourcing breaks at scale
Modern indirect procurement demands scale, speed, and coordination that legacy tools cannot deliver. The result is slower cycles, fragmented workflows, and limited cost visibility.
Tools that aren’t tools
Most indirect sourcing platforms are glorified email and Excel. Attachments pile up, bids are inconsistent, and comparisons turn into manual cleanup instead of insight.
Collaboration bottlenecks
Suppliers can’t truly collaborate with buyer teams, business stakeholders are out of the loop, and sourcing becomes a slow, back-and-forth exercise instead of a shared workflow.
Manual work and opaque costs
Quotes, revisions, analysis, and awards are handled by hand, with no automation or cost history to reveal where prices are creeping up over time.
The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it’s a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer
The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it’s a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer
The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it’s a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer
Everything indirect sourcing should be
Launch sourcing events in minutes with standardized quotes and structured supplier responses. Evaluate tradeoffs across cost, risk, service levels, and terms while maintaining stakeholder alignment in one place.
Launch your Sourcing Project within minutes
Kick off indirect sourcing events in just a few clicks. Our AI instantly ingests items and creates standardized quote templates so suppliers respond in a consistent, comparable format from day one.
Launch your Sourcing Project within minutes
Kick off indirect sourcing events in just a few clicks. Our AI instantly ingests items and creates standardized quote templates so suppliers respond in a consistent, comparable format from day one.
Launch your Sourcing Project within minutes
Kick off indirect sourcing events in just a few clicks. Our AI instantly ingests items and creates standardized quote templates so suppliers respond in a consistent, comparable format from day one.
Unlock deeper insights and drive savings
Move beyond lowest price. Our agentic award-scenario builder models multiple award strategies - balancing cost, service levels, risk, sustainability, and contract terms - so you can confidently select the best-value outcome.
Unlock deeper insights and drive savings
Move beyond lowest price. Our agentic award-scenario builder models multiple award strategies - balancing cost, service levels, risk, sustainability, and contract terms - so you can confidently select the best-value outcome.
Unlock deeper insights and drive savings
Move beyond lowest price. Our agentic award-scenario builder models multiple award strategies - balancing cost, service levels, risk, sustainability, and contract terms - so you can confidently select the best-value outcome.
Collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders and suppliers in one place
Align procurement, finance, legal, and business owners in a single workspace and streamline communication with suppliers. Eliminate fragmented email threads, version confusion, and approval delays with centralized collaboration and visibility.
Collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders and suppliers in one place
Align procurement, finance, legal, and business owners in a single workspace and streamline communication with suppliers. Eliminate fragmented email threads, version confusion, and approval delays with centralized collaboration and visibility.
Collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders and suppliers in one place
Align procurement, finance, legal, and business owners in a single workspace and streamline communication with suppliers. Eliminate fragmented email threads, version confusion, and approval delays with centralized collaboration and visibility.
Details
The enterprise grade
platform you can trust
Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.
Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.
Reliability & Support
LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.
Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.
Rapid Implementation
LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.
Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.
Global Scalability & Accessibility
Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.
The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.
Details
The enterprise grade
platform you can trust
Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.
Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.
Reliability & Support
LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.
Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.
Rapid Implementation
LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.
Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.
Global Scalability & Accessibility
Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.
The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.
Details
The enterprise grade platform you can trust
Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.
Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.
Reliability & Support
LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.
Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.
Rapid Implementation
LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.
Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.
Global Scalability & Accessibility
Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.
The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.
Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.
Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.
SOC 2
Kearney #1 2024
Gartner Cool Vendor
Procuretech 100
G2 Top Rated
Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.
Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.
SOC 2
Kearney #1 2024
Gartner Cool Vendor
Procuretech 100
G2 Top Rated
Faster sourcing. Lower cost. Less chaos.
Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.
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