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Index Vendors › Workday Strategic Sourcing · September 2026 Edition
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Workday Strategic Sourcing

19Judge labels
5First choices
4Negative labels
9 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Strategic sourcing for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 127 in the mid-market standing
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In strategic sourcing · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Workday Strategic Sourcing for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Strategic sourcingSpend and procurement9%5 of 12711%9under 10 labels · led by Precoro at 17%
Procure-to-paySpend and procurement0%41 of 850%1under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday Strategic Sourcing yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Workday Strategic Sourcing across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00011
Gemini 3.5 Flash10001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small11002
DeepSeek V4 Flash03003
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.510001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct7 labels2
Paraphrase4 labels2
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labels1
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“For a mid-sized B2B company, Workday Strategic Sourcing is an excellent choice if you want an integrated financial and sourcing solution.” Mistral Small · Strategic sourcing · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Precoro or Workday Strategic Sourcing if you're already using Workday” MiniMax M2.5 · Strategic sourcing · direct prompt · first choice
“the best e-sourcing and RFP tool for a mid-sized B2B company would be Workday Strategic Sourcing” Llama 4 Maverick · Strategic sourcing · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best Overall for Collaborative RFx: Workday Strategic Sourcing (formerly Scout RFP)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Strategic sourcing · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“more commonly positioned toward enterprise than mid-market” GPT-5.4 mini · Strategic sourcing · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday Strategic Sourcing, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Strategic Sourcing was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Coupa13 of 194Not in the top three
SAP Ariba13 of 192Not in the top three
Ivalua12 of 191Not in the top three
GEP SMART9 of 191Not in the top three
Jaggaer9 of 191Not in the top three
Zycus8 of 190Not in the top three
Precoro5 of 192Not in the top three
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement5 of 190Not in the top three
Market Dojo4 of 190Not in the top three
Zip4 of 190Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Workday Strategic Sourcing. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 19 answers that named Workday Strategic Sourcing and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com10
softwareconnect.com8
procurementvms.com7
spendflo.com7
worldmetrics.org7
g2.com6
guideflow.com5
walkme.com5
zycus.com5
mindsprint.com4

Sixty-four of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming Workday Strategic Sourcing came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workday Strategic Sourcing

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday Strategic Sourcing; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday Strategic Sourcing (formerly Scout RFP) 1
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