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Workday Strategic Sourcing

Independent supplier intelligence for Workday Strategic Sourcing

Speya (formerly Find My Factory) is an independent AI supplier intelligence platform for B2B procurement teams. It works beside Workday Strategic Sourcing as the discovery and vetting layer. Workday’s user guide scopes the Strategic Sourcing Supplier Directory to the suppliers already approved in your Workday tenant. Speya reads a sourcing need written in plain language, matches suppliers to it across 250+ data sources, vets them with AI agents against certifications, financial health, ESG and sanctions, and returns a shortlist with contact details that your team can load into Workday.

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What does Workday Strategic Sourcing do for supplier discovery today?

It searches the suppliers you already have. Workday Strategic Sourcing has a Supplier Directory with search and filter, and Workday’s user guide states that, where the Supplier Connector is set up, “all approved suppliers in Workday are part of your Strategic Sourcing Supplier Directory unless the connector was configured with supplier group or category filters.” Filtering runs over that directory’s own fields. Around it sits the workflow Workday’s product page describes: sourcing project intake, pipeline management, RFx analysis, dynamic negotiations, supplier onboarding, performance and risk, reporting and savings tracking, plus AI-powered contract lifecycle management. As of 26 October 2026, the same product page says teams can “evaluate bids using AI” in RFx events, and describes contract lifecycle management powered by Evisort AI with a Contract Intelligence Agent that looks for savings such as rebates and volume discounts inside supplier contracts. The product began as Scout RFP. TechCrunch reported on 4 November 2019 that Workday had agreed to acquire Scout RFP for $540M; Workday’s newsroom said the deal closed on 9 December 2019; and Workday’s blog later announced that “Scout RFP is now Workday Strategic Sourcing.”

Where it stops

Where does Workday Strategic Sourcing supplier discovery stop?

Workday’s Supplier Directory covers the suppliers approved in your Workday tenant, so it searches the supply base you already have. We searched both current datasheets, dated 26 February 2026 and 12 January 2026, and as of 26 October 2026 found no occurrence of “discover”, “supplier search”, “database” or “market intelligence”, and no named external supplier data provider. The Supplier Management datasheet centres on onboarding and approvals, supplier experience, risk assessment, reporting and performance tracking. Workday’s admin guide listed three third-party integrations for Strategic Sourcing as of 3 September 2026: OneTrust for risk screening, Office 365 for document editing and Relish Data Assure for supplier data validation. In our assessment those validate and screen suppliers you already hold. On the product page, Workday’s AI works on bids and contracts. Finding suppliers you have not met yet is a separate job.

What Speya adds

What does Speya add alongside Workday Strategic Sourcing?

Minutes

From need to AI-vetted shortlist

Millions

Supplier profiles, searched live

250+

Data sources, cross-referenced

Speya is the discovery and vetting layer beside Workday. Workday stays the system of record and runs the workflow.

Matching starts from plain language. A team writes the need the way it would brief a colleague, for example “stainless steel parts, ISO 9001, northern Italy”. Speya Discover reads the context, here the material, the standard and the region, searches 250+ data sources live, including official registries, trade and customs data, financial filings, certifications and the open web, and ranks suppliers against the brief. Refine the brief and the shortlist re-ranks.

Intelligence comes with the shortlist. Speya’s research agents vet each candidate against certifications, financial health, ESG and sanctions and answer your own questions, with the source beside every finding for your team to confirm. The sanctions check is a first-pass screen; it does not replace your licensed sanctions-screening process. Each supplier comes with contact details, so the first message reaches a person. Contact details come from public business sources; your team stays responsible for GDPR-compliant outreach.

After award, Speya keeps watching sanction lists, legal actions and ownership changes and alerts your team. It complements, not replaces, a dedicated risk platform.

The rest of the case stays in one place. Speya RFx sends an RFI, RFP or RFQ to the whole shortlist and keeps an audit trail. Speya Auto (autonomous mode) is part of the Enterprise plan: Speya Auto plans the search, runs every step, researches the suppliers and ranks them on its own. Speya is independent: suppliers cannot pay to be listed, ranked or featured.

Speya is built for B2B procurement teams: sourcing and category managers in direct and indirect spend, in any industry, and technical teams who want external supplier data inside their own tools through the Speya API.

How it connects

How does Speya connect to Workday Strategic Sourcing?

Through the Speya API. The Speya API is live; access comes with a Team or Enterprise agreement and is reviewed per integration. An MCP server is coming. Integrations are built on request through that API where they make technical and commercial sense. The API returns structured supplier records a system can write into its own tables, so a team can write a shortlist into its supplier master or a sourcing event. The three calls customers make most often: enrich a supplier you already hold, find the named contact, and pull ESG evidence with sources. On the Workday side, Workday’s API documentation publishes Suppliers v1.1, where POST /supplier_companies creates a supplier company; Workday documents EIB as a no-code CSV or XML load; and Workday Extend can host an app inside the Workday UI. Shortlists also export as spreadsheets. Speya has no certified or vendor-listed Workday connector.

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Questions

Common questions.

Does Speya replace Workday Strategic Sourcing?

No. Speya is not a source-to-pay suite and does not run sourcing events, contracts, purchase orders or invoices. Workday Strategic Sourcing stays the system of record and keeps the workflow: intake, RFx, negotiations, awards and contracts. Speya sits in front of it. It discovers and vets candidates, then hands the shortlist and its supporting evidence over through the Speya API, where your team builds that integration, or as a structured export.

How does Speya match suppliers to a sourcing need?

A team describes the need in plain language, such as a part, a material, a required certification and a region. Speya’s AI agents read that context, search 250+ data sources live and rank suppliers against the brief. Each supplier on the shortlist is AI-vetted against certifications, financial health, ESG and sanctions, with contact details and a source beside every finding. Refining the brief re-ranks the shortlist.

Who is Speya for?

B2B procurement and sourcing teams, in direct and indirect spend and in any industry, that need suppliers beyond the ones already approved in their systems. Teams that build procurement, PLM or ERP tools, and internal technical procurement teams, use the Speya API to bring the same supplier data into their own software. API access comes with a Team or Enterprise agreement.

Does Workday Strategic Sourcing already do supplier discovery?

Inside your tenant, yes. The Supplier Directory lets teams search and filter suppliers, and Workday’s user guide scopes it to “all approved suppliers in Workday” where the Supplier Connector is set up. As of 26 October 2026 we found no mention of an external supplier-discovery database in either 2026 datasheet or on the product page, which describes Workday’s AI for bid evaluation and contracts. Speya adds discovery beyond the approved list.

Is Scout RFP the same as Scoutbee?

No, and the two are easily confused. Scout RFP is the company TechCrunch reported Workday had agreed to acquire for $540M on 4 November 2019; Workday’s newsroom said the deal closed on 9 December 2019, and the product became Workday Strategic Sourcing. Scoutbee is a different, German company, and Coupa announced its acquisition of Scoutbee on 6 October 2025. Workday’s Contingent Sourcing Agent is a third name that gets confused: Workday’s own announcement describes it as accelerating temporary hiring “by identifying talent open to contingent roles.”

Is Speya independent of Workday?

Yes. Speya is built and operated by Speya Intelligence AB in Stockholm. It is not owned by or bundled into any procurement suite or ERP vendor, and suppliers cannot pay to be listed, ranked or featured. Speya connects to Workday Strategic Sourcing through its API and moves with you if you change suites.

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