Corcentric Acquires Source One: Transaction Analysis (Part 2) — Customer Recommendations, Selection Checklist and Procurement Consulting Market Update

Procurement consulting sector insiders might look at Corcentric’s acquisition of Source One as a rounding error representing what is most likely materially less than the revenue — both in terms of revenue contribution and valuation — that a single large client can bring to a Big Five strategy or operations firms over the course of a calendar year.

There’s likely some truth to this statement. But to dismiss the transaction along these lines would be to ignore the acquisition of one of the few remaining non-system integration procurement consultancies in North America of any scale. And perhaps more important, it would also require turning one’s back on a number of macro trends that are fundamentally shifting the dynamics of the procurement consulting, managed services and business process outsourcing sectors.

These trends matter for both for not only those interested in playing a part in sector consolidation (sellers and buyers) but also customers. This two-part Spend Matters PRO research brief provides insight into the transaction. Part 1 provided an overview of the acquisition and background on Source One. In Part 2, we explore Corcentric and Source One customer recommendations, provide a selection checklist for potential Source One customers to evaluate if the firm is the right "fit" and offer our analysis of what the transaction means for the broader procurement consulting and solutions market.