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- Value-Chain Report -- Leading Practices In Strategic Sourcing
- In the quest to develop ever more efficient supply chains, many manufacturers, distributors, retailers, governmental agencies, and other entities are turning their attention to their supplier network. These firms recognize that, in many cases, a large percentage of their cost of sales resides in the cost of purchased materials and...
- White papers 2001-01-10
- The ReEmergence of Strategic Sourcing
- In recent months strategic sourcing has returned to the top of procurement agenda. This article explains why organisations should be looking at this area and what factors have propelled strategic sourcing back into the spotlight. Marketing produced by numerous software vendors jostling for position in the 'eSourcing' marketplace. While...
- White papers 2001-04-15
- A Holistic Approach To Realizing Sustained Results
- While strategic sourcing point initiatives have provided significant benefits to date, an integrated supplier relationship management approach is needed to fuel sustainable, cross-enterprise cost savings. . Many of these companies have already zeroed in on the sourcing process and purchased software tools or run hosted e-auction events that have yielded...
- White papers 2003-07-26
- E-Procurement And Strategic Sourcing For The Services Industry
- This presentation tells us how e-procurement reduces cost. Also it tells us about strategic sourcing and the goals of strategic sourcing. Workforce allows services suppliers to submit timesheets and expenses online and routes documents for approvals electronically, allowing suppliers to be paid more quickly and buyers to take advantage of...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Strategic Sourcing: Applications to Turn Direct Materials Procurement into a Competitive Advantage
- Strategic sourcing applications provide critical decision-support functionality to purchasing departments and decision makers within the supply chain. Strategic sourcing applications aid companies in choosing suppliers, allocating volumes among suppliers, managing supply risk and optimizing the supplier base performance. These solutions replace inflexible spreadsheet solutions and expensive, time consuming consultants with...
- White papers 2001-01-30
- global strategic sourcing
- Article discusses a case of Bristol-Myers that focus on how the organization plans to deliver its billion in cost savings. Bristol-Myers Squibb has been sourcing strategically since 1996. Between 1996 and 2002, the company's Glob
- White papers
- Managing Your Spend
- New strategies, reengineering, and powerful technology have enabled companies to revamp sourcing and procurement. With significant benefits such as these within reach, it is no wonder that companies increasingly try to build core competence around spend management, aggressively pursuing savings that can be realized by more effectively managing their spend....
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Help Me Help You
- Deciding how much business should be given to any supplier, is a process called supplier business allocation, is an incredibly complex matter. The article asserts that most of the e-procurement tasks Priest once oversaw can now be automated by one of many excellent systems on the market, except the strategic...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Strategic Sourcing In The Telecommunications Industry
- From the executive summary: ‘In the contemporary business era, companies are under intense pressure to boost financial performance and increase shareholder value. In this challenging climate, procurement and sourcing, its supplier relationship component, are among the most effective tools companies have to quickly achieve measurable benefits and to build sustainable,...
- White papers 2002-05-16
- Getting Started - The Basics of Organizing a Strategic Sourcing Program
- The fast pace of growth has kept the operations in tactical delivery mode, so much so that the number of transactions, suppliers, databases and staffing counts have ballooned. A quick look at operational data shows fragmented spend characteristics, diverse payment terms and SKU proliferation. The organization charts show that procurement...
- White papers 2005-01-17
- Strategic Sourcing and e-Procurement Solutions to Support Your Business Objectives
- This paper signifies that sourcing and procurement aren't merely tactical exercises. They're the lifeblood of your business. By selecting the ideal mix of suppliers based on attributes critical to the business - like price, quality and delivery time - one can reduce spend. And by automating the procurement process, one...
- White papers 2004-02-13
- Procurement Reform Using Strategic Sourcing
- In an ongoing effort to uncover better ways of doing business, many purchasing leaders are discovering that a well-established, commercial best practice translates well to the public sector, including postal service organizations, or posts. Procurement in the public sector, as a profession, generally strives to find ways to make a...
- White papers 2004-04-15
- Product Lifecycle Sourcing: Creating Real Process Improvement and Reducing Costs
- Real process improvement is difficult given the pace and complexity of both product development and strategic sourcing. Process integration and "perfect information" that only technology can provide is required. That is why Product Lifecycle Sourcing PLS integrates strategic sourcing and product lifecycle management, enabling common processes and information for engineering,...
- White papers 2004-09-30
- Taking a Strategic Approach to Sourcing: What Is My Sourcing Strategy?
- A truly strategic approach to the use of sourcing relative to corporate strategies is a choice of corporate lifestyle. Reaching far beyond the domain of individual organizations, the means through which the enterprise engages with external service providers for the provision of services offers key points of leverage and distinction...
- White papers 2003-10-03
- Strategic Sourcing and e-Procurement - Which One, or Both?
- It is doubtful that any subject in the history of procurement or supply chain management has created more excitement and enthusiasm than "e-procurement". It promises to revolutionize the way we do business, and produce significant savings. The subject of strategic sourcing creates almost as much excitement, and possibly even more...
- White papers 2002-03-14
- Innovative Sourcing Strategies
- The efficient allocation of capital, particularly in the "make or buy" decision, has the power to increase earnings and shareholder value. The state of the pharmaceutical industry makes strategic sourcing decisions more important and more urgent than ever. What are the benefits and possible problems inherent in sourcing, and what...
- White papers 2001-05-11
- Strategic Sourcing Roundtable Defines Top 5 Challenges to Public Sector Strategic Sourcing
- The paper discusses in brief about the Top 5 Challenges, which were jointly compiled by Roundtable members representing government agencies across the Federal government. The Public Sector Strategic Sourcing Roundtable, a forum for senior Federal procurement executives sponsored by Censeo Consulting Group and University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of...
- White papers 2004-09-02
- Delivering Bottom-Line Results With Strategic Sourcing Strategies
- The paper focuses on Strategic Sourcing solutions to help the company in achieving leadership advantage by helping it to obtain goods and services at the lowest cost. It throws light on the improvements in areas including vendor certification and measurement activities, companywide procurement and sourcing efforts, and the incorporation of...
- White papers 2004-09-15
- Formal Sourcing Strategies Lead to Higher ROI From Outsourcing: Double-Digit Growth and Strategic Sourcing
- The analysis of CFOs' perspectives on outsourcing finds that double-digit growth DDG companies are more likely to have formal sourcing strategies in place, to make greater use of outsourcing, and to achieve a higher ROI from outsourcing than their peers at single-digit growth SDG companies. Double-digit growth companies are more...
- White papers 2004-04-23
- How Business Processes Enable True Strategic Sourcing
- Today, most leading companies are leveraging strategic sourcing as a competitive advantage and there is little doubt that it can add real value to businesses that are prepared to execute against their sourcing strategies. While the benefits can be great, the challenges to implement these initiatives effectively can be difficult...
- White papers 2002-12-09
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