Still Managing Direct Materials Procurement Through Email Threads and Excel Spreadsheets?
76% of procurement teams still rely on email and Excel as their primary tools, creating inefficient processes that consume entire weeks just to compare price changes for a single SKU.
Unlike sales teams where 87-90% use CRMs, procurement remains trapped in manual workflows that create data silos and eliminate visibility.
LightSource eliminates these common procurement challenges:
Manual processes taking weeks instead of hours
Critical data trapped in individual email inboxes
Lack of real-time supplier collaboration visibility
Time-consuming manual reporting and analysis
Supplier resistance to multiple procurement portals
Some quotes from LightSource clients:
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
Get your personalized demo
See how LightSource transforms direct materials sourcing in just 30 minutes
“LightSource is a must-have for any product company. Working with the platform helped us bring our vehicle to market 3x faster than competitors and at 25% lower BOM cost. Hard to imagine ever going back to excel & email.”
Eddie Cohen
Co-Founder & President at Infinite Machine
Still Managing Direct Materials Procurement Through Email Threads and Excel Spreadsheets?
76% of procurement teams still rely on email and Excel as their primary tools, creating inefficient processes that consume entire weeks just to compare price changes for a single SKU.
Unlike sales teams where 87-90% use CRMs, procurement remains trapped in manual workflows that create data silos and eliminate visibility.
LightSource eliminates these common procurement challenges:
Manual processes taking weeks instead of hours
Critical data trapped in individual email inboxes
Lack of real-time supplier collaboration visibility
Time-consuming manual reporting and analysis
Supplier resistance to multiple procurement portals
Some quotes from LightSource clients:
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
Get your personalized demo
See how LightSource transforms direct materials sourcing in just 30 minutes
“LightSource is a must-have for any product company. Working with the platform helped us bring our vehicle to market 3x faster than competitors and at 25% lower BOM cost. Hard to imagine ever going back to excel & email.”
Eddie Cohen
Co-Founder & President at Infinite Machine
Still Managing Direct Materials Procurement Through Email Threads and Excel Spreadsheets?
76% of procurement teams still rely on email and Excel as their primary tools, creating inefficient processes that consume entire weeks just to compare price changes for a single SKU.
Unlike sales teams where 87-90% use CRMs, procurement remains trapped in manual workflows that create data silos and eliminate visibility.
LightSource eliminates these common procurement challenges:
Manual processes taking weeks instead of hours
Critical data trapped in individual email inboxes
Lack of real-time supplier collaboration visibility
Time-consuming manual reporting and analysis
Supplier resistance to multiple procurement portals
Some quotes from LightSource clients:
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
"LightSource has impressed us with a deep understanding of our needs paired with thoughtful proactivity. Now our procurement and engineering teams can work quickly with our suppliers - making sourcing faster, easier, and far more collaborative - while freeing us from manual processes, spreadsheet agony, and endless email threads."
Jorge Lopez-Vessena
Manager of Global Sourcing
"We at Canada Goose really needed something like LightSource. It’s an all-in-one sourcing engine that my team and suppliers actually adopted and use to drive efficiencies. The LightSource team behind it are incredibly responsive and eagerly develops new features at an unbelievable pace."
Danny Wang
SVP of Operations, Sourcing and Procuremnt
"HelloFresh insists on the best for its customers. We recognize this can only be achieved with world-class suppliers supported by a remarkable procurement team using superior technology - that's LightSource. My team loves using LightSource and candidly, so do our vendors. LightSource is an invaluable tool for any Procurement leader."
Elena Bernardo
SVP of Operations
"Compared to the competition you allow us to get get things done quickly. If we were using one of your competitors, we would never be able to take advantage of these opportunities because it takes them too long to get everything up and running to be able to take care of the bid where with LightSource, we do it in days. Days. This allows us to take advantage of things when windows open, like right now with tariffs. We can be opportunistic and nimble because of LightSource when we’re using the esourcing philosophy within the application."
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer at Arxada
"LightSource has been incredibly responsive, making my job easier, and our suppliers find it user-friendly."
Kris Stasukaitis
Associate Director, Mechanical Commodities at Shure
Get your personalized demo
See how LightSource transforms direct materials sourcing in just 30 minutes
“LightSource is a must-have for any product company. Working with the platform helped us bring our vehicle to market 3x faster than competitors and at 25% lower BOM cost. Hard to imagine ever going back to excel & email.”
Eddie Cohen
Co-Founder & President at Infinite Machine