eRFX Sourcing Portal vs Ombud

eRFX Sourcing Portal is a cloud application for aerospace estimation and procurement professionals making sourcing decisions during quoting and award. Its customer portal supports sourcing raw material, hardware, final processing, and manufactured or fabricated detail components from multiple suppliers. Buyers can generate proposals, compare costs, preselect vendors from a processing database and manage vendor NDAs. The supplier portal helps distributors, detail component manufacturers and final processing providers handle RFIs, RFPs and RFQs from multiple customers, with quick quote submission, configurable workflows and automated email messaging. eRFX is available on the web and through an API, and the site says it is integrated with CPQ Aero. Gold Supplier offers custom API configuration for ERP software. Engineering files use AWS cloud storage during bidding and are deleted after 30 days or bid closure; transmission is secured with SSL encryption. Customer Portal costs nothing, Supplier Portal costs $15 a month, and Gold Supplier costs $500 a month. Supplier portals receive a 90-day trial after registration and approval.

Ombud is a web-based response management platform for enterprise revenue operations teams. It helps teams prepare responses to RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, and security questionnaires using a searchable content library and OmMatch, which recommends material for answers and can automate questionnaire responses. Its Sales Engineering Ombuddy assists with solution mapping, technical assessments, demo scripts, and value-based selling; its Response Management Ombuddy supports proposal workflows, response drafting, InfoSec questionnaires, and client presentations. Teams can track presales content and requests across the sales cycle, use Salesforce access to connect opportunities with workflows, and import documents themselves. Responses can be shared as live web pages or exported to Excel, Word, or PDF. Analytics include customer viewing data and win rates. Ombud lists role-based access, SAML 2.0 SSO, encryption in transit, and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. It runs on the web. Pricing is on request.