The presenter Cathy Ma walked each of us through the benefits of strategic sourcing, while demonstrating to us how to navigate the ThomasNet sourcing platform that has made our supplier base grow. This information could not have come at a better time due to the domestic raw materials shortage. The seminar provided us the opportunity to use the ThomasNet sourcing tool to reach out to suppliers that we would have never found through a general and/or generic supplier Google search.