The SIG Innovation Accelerator (SA), which empowers the leaders of major buy-side companies and providers of innovative products to create the future of procurement, and SIG, the premier membership organization for sourcing, procurement and outsourcing executives, selected four products for presentation to buy-side organizations. These products were presented to F500 procurement executives at the inaugural SA acceleration event held as part of SIG’s Global Executive Summit March 26-29, 2018 in Washington, D.C. The selected products achieved the highest ratings for creativity and positive impacts on the procurement and Source through Supply Chain (SSC) functions during SA’s emerging products evaluation process.

With a mission of helping procurement executives create the future of procurement, SA works with SIG’s hundreds of member companies to identify the areas and product categories that aren’t sufficiently fulfilled and then matches these gaps with innovative, emerging products to meet these needs. For products selected for implementation, SA facilitates buyer-provider teamwork to reduce risks, decrease expenses and potentially improve these products.