5% more profit.
Honestly calculated, not oversold.
Not because your procurement negotiates worse. Because bundling across legally independent members has so far failed due to the software, not because of you.
White paper on demand bundling – coming soon on the blog
From goal to award – every step usable on its own
Procurement Planning / Sourcing Calendar
Plan target-driven based on savings goals or time-driven based on recurring dates — both on the same platform. Most tools force you into one logic, cusoso adapts to your rhythm.
Demand Bundling
Bundle demand across multiple, legally independent companies — without any member seeing the data of another. This separation is legally required under antitrust law as soon as members are competitors in their local markets. No other provider delivers this as software instead of manual consulting.
RFQ / Tendering
Tender even extensive item lists and complex assortments cleanly, with differentiated supplier assignment per item. Generic tools are built for single categories, cusoso for hundreds of items at once.
Negotiation / Auction
Negotiate yourself, with real auction tools that strengthen your negotiating position instead of replacing it. We do not believe an AI negotiates better than an experienced buyer, so we build tools, not a black box.
Award
Award according to the scenario that truly fits your situation — best package, cherry picking or dual sourcing — instead of just the lowest single price. Awarding is a strategic decision, not an automatism.
Every module, one system
Every module also stands on its own – together they form the complete bundling process.
For your role, your network, your industry
Procurement
- Launch RFQs & auctions in minutes
- Bundle demand across locations
- Prove savings & supplier performance
IT
- Immediately usable – no complex rollout
- REST API & SSO for seamless ERP integration
- GDPR-compliant, EU hosting, role-based access
Management
- Full cost transparency & ROI from day one
- Cancel monthly – no long-term commitment
- Scales with your company – from 5 to 500+ users
Purchasing Cooperatives
- Antitrust-compliant demand bundling
- Strict visibility separation
- Centralized time planning
Companies with Central Procurement
- Involvement of local departments
- Link central procurement goals with local results
- Avoid maverick buying and local outliers
Procurement Consultants
- Multi-tenancy for multiple clients
- White-label software appears as their product
- Mandate activation only during project duration
Food & Grocery
- Article database for ingredients and required certificates
- Supplier evaluation for quality assurance
- Marketplace for surplus stock
Building Materials
- Simplified tendering for assortments
- Inclusion of local supplier relationships
- Multiple price dimensions
Indirect Procurement (Seasonal Items)
- Tender calendar for timely planning
- Carry-over of RFQ results into auctions
- RFQ templates for recurring demand
cusoso in Action
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cusoso vs. Alternatives
| Criterion | cusoso | Excel / E-Mail |
Source-to-Pay Suites Ariba, Onventis, Jaggaer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Implementation | Ready to use, self-configurable | Immediate, but manual | 3–12 months + consultants |
| Ease of use | Intuitive, no training needed | Familiar, but error-prone | Complex, training required |
| Flexibility | Modular, scalable | Limited | High, but expensive |
| API / AI-Ready | REST API + Agentic-AI | No | Limited |
| Cost | Fair pricing | Free (hidden costs) | High license & project costs |
| Contract | Cancellable annually | None | min. 36 months |
One model. For your entire organization.
excl. VAT – central organization + number of business units
- All modules on a single-tenant instance
- Individual hosting & SLA included
- Cancellable annually
The central organization pays a base fee plus a fee per connected business unit – e.g. per member company for purchasing cooperatives, per client for procurement consultants, or per plant/site for mid-market companies. The exact fee depends on the overall scope.
🎉 3-month free trial
Proven at one of the largest trade cooperatives
cusoso developed a sourcing platform for the SMEs of our 15,000+ partners. Above all, the speed at which the solution was developed fascinated us. The system puts users at the center and helps achieve cost reductions in procurement quickly and easily.
Maik Meyer
Head of Sustainability & Sourcing
Markant Deutschland GmbH
In the trade press
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is cusoso for?
cusoso is aimed at organizations that bundle procurement for multiple legally independent members. This includes purchasing cooperatives, buying groups and industry associations. Negotiations run centrally, but billing and visibility remain separate for each member. This is required under antitrust law as soon as members are competitors in their local markets. cusoso is also suitable for procurement consultants who run tenders on behalf of several clients.
cusoso is aimed at organizations that bundle procurement for multiple legally independent members. This includes purchasing cooperatives, buying groups and industry associations. Negotiations run centrally, but billing and visibility remain separate for each member. This is required under antitrust law as soon as members are competitors in their local markets. cusoso is also suitable for procurement consultants who run tenders on behalf of several clients.
What is the typical use case for cusoso?
A central procurement organization collects the demand of all participating members, plans it over the year and puts it out to tender in bundled form. The individual demand remains assigned to the respective member and is not visible to other members. This separation of bundling and visibility rights is the actual technical challenge, not the tender itself.
A central procurement organization collects the demand of all participating members, plans it over the year and puts it out to tender in bundled form. The individual demand remains assigned to the respective member and is not visible to other members. This separation of bundling and visibility rights is the actual technical challenge, not the tender itself.
What is visibility separation and why does it matter for purchasing cooperatives?
Visibility separation means that members of a purchasing cooperative bundle jointly but do not gain mutual insight into the order data, prices or volumes of other members. Under German antitrust law (§ 1 GWB), such data exchange between competitors can be legally problematic even when the bundling purpose itself is legitimate. For buying groups and industry associations, this separation is therefore not a nice-to-have but a prerequisite for legally sound joint purchasing.
Visibility separation means that members of a purchasing cooperative bundle jointly but do not gain mutual insight into the order data, prices or volumes of other members. Under German antitrust law (§ 1 GWB), such data exchange between competitors can be legally problematic even when the bundling purpose itself is legitimate. For buying groups and industry associations, this separation is therefore not a nice-to-have but a prerequisite for legally sound joint purchasing.
How does cusoso differentiate itself from the competition?
No other provider on the market combines software instead of a consulting service, demand bundling as a core function, and robust visibility separation between bundling members. Enterprise suites such as SAP Ariba, Coupa or Jaggaer are designed for a single company. Consultancies such as Synprocure or Kloepfel Consulting bundle manually, without their own platform. cusoso closes this gap. In a tool tender by one of the largest trade cooperatives in Europe, cusoso was the only one of 20 evaluated providers able to deliver the required visibility separation.
No other provider on the market combines software instead of a consulting service, demand bundling as a core function, and robust visibility separation between bundling members. Enterprise suites such as SAP Ariba, Coupa or Jaggaer are designed for a single company. Consultancies such as Synprocure or Kloepfel Consulting bundle manually, without their own platform. cusoso closes this gap. In a tool tender by one of the largest trade cooperatives in Europe, cusoso was the only one of 20 evaluated providers able to deliver the required visibility separation.
Is cusoso also suitable for direct procurement, not just indirect goods?
Yes. Thanks to flexible item-list design, cusoso also maps complex tenders as common in direct procurement, e.g. with high article and category diversity or differentiated supplier assignment within a single tender.
Yes. Thanks to flexible item-list design, cusoso also maps complex tenders as common in direct procurement, e.g. with high article and category diversity or differentiated supplier assignment within a single tender.
Can cusoso be integrated into existing systems?
cusoso follows an API-first strategy. All databases can be connected via an authenticated REST API, e.g. to ERP systems or existing S2P solutions of individual members.
cusoso follows an API-first strategy. All databases can be connected via an authenticated REST API, e.g. to ERP systems or existing S2P solutions of individual members.
Does cusoso offer AI features for demand bundling?
Yes, via a dedicated agent engine that is activated per customer. Every AI agent can access all skills of the platform, allowing parts of the tender process to be automated without taking over the actual negotiation decision. The offering is LLM-agnostic. The model the customer already works with is used, and their own or local models can also be connected via API.
Yes, via a dedicated agent engine that is activated per customer. Every AI agent can access all skills of the platform, allowing parts of the tender process to be automated without taking over the actual negotiation decision. The offering is LLM-agnostic. The model the customer already works with is used, and their own or local models can also be connected via API.