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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Fortune 150 Conglomerate / Silver Oak Solutions
- Silver Oak provided the first-ever corporate-wide spending analysis for this global customer across 20-plus domestic and five European business units. Silver Oak completed strategic sourcing for three complex, difficult categories for a major business group at the company, identifying 21 percent in annual savings. Using Silver Oak's sourcing process (involving...
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- Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Sourcing-II
- Cost control has companies re-evaluating their commitment to sourcing apps, especially as best-in-class firms are driving high returns from the technology. The procurement and sourcing space became a tragic play of small suppliers struggling to survive while users hunkered down to digest the applications acquired in the B2B buying binge....
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Sourcing
- Sourcing is a market that suffers from the lack of a discernable leader, offers applications that are simplistic in the midst of a very complex business process and bidding event functionality that is similar between products. Until the hype generated during the overblown Internet bubble died down, along with the...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Procurement
- The article questions the state of procurement enablement in 2003. However, this is a more cryptic question than ever under the current economic conditions. This question has been posed for all the functional areas of Global Enabled Supply and Demand Chain model (Order/Demand Capture, Sourcing, Procurement, Fulfillment, Logistics, Payment, Customer...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Johnson Space Center / MfgQuote Inc.
- For more than 40 years, Johnson Space Center JSC in Houston, Texas, has been home to the U.S. human space flight program from the final Mercury flight to today's space shuttle and International Space Station missions. In the past, the process to find three suppliers who could do the work...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Fortune 100 Manufacturer / Perfect Commerce
- This Fortune 100 Manufacturer has more than 115 years experience building and optimizing facilities across the globe, but when it came to optimizing its sourcing and procurement operations, the company's Building Solutions unit turned to an on-demand supplier relationship management solution to drive end user adoption and achieve uniform processes...
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- In Depth: Global Supply Chain - The Hidden Costs of a Global Supply & Demand Chain
- When a company moves production offshore or begins sourcing from suppliers overseas, lead times inevitably increase for goods brought into the country. Extended lead times, in turn, diminish the accuracy of forecasts as companies are forced to project demand further out than when they were producing goods closer to end...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Alcoa/Ariba
- Alcoa is widely known as the world's largest producer of aluminum and aluminum products, with 350 operating locations in 41 countries, bringing revenue of $23.5 billion a year. However, staying at the head of the pack is not easy. Alcoa's sourcing and procurement team was challenged to decrease the overall...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Connell Purchasing Services / EC Sourcing Group
- Connell Purchasing Services CPS, a strategic purchasing firm, was founded in 1994 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Connell Company. CPS was interested in automating its already sophisticated sourcing process to reduce cycle time, increase throughput without increasing headcount and maximizing the competition for their requirements. After almost...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Fortune 100 Retailer / EnergyWindow, Inc.
- national retailer had ongoing energy procurement requirements for a large number of facilities in many deregulated states. The company sought a way to simplify a high volume of requests for quotation and subsequent bidding scenarios in a variety of differently structured energy markets. As part of its procurement strategy, the...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Revlon / Frictionless Commerce
- Revlon was undergoing a strategic procurement transformation, with the scope involving people, process and technology changes. Part of this transformation entailed implementing a Supplier Relationship Management SRM solution that would enable the group to consolidate spending and improve supplier communication. After undergoing a selection process that gave strong consideration for...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Global 1000 Industrial Manufacturing Company / Global eProcure
- This global manufacturer was seeking to reduce its spend on direct and indirect commodities and services by 15 percent, improve its sourcing process efficiencies, and get a better handle on its spend centrally with enhanced reporting capabilities. For this consulting engagement, Global eProcure worked with the manufacturer's global purchasing team...
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Additional Resources
- Supplier Diversity: Who's Doing and Marketing it Well? And Does it Sacrifice Savings?
- Supplier diversity is imperative in a global, multi-cultural business market, but it can be challenging to reconcile supplier diversity initiatives with cost-cutting initiatives. According to a 2006 study by The Hackett Group, companies can expand their supplier diversity programs without sacrificing savings. So who's doing it well, and how...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Effective Sourcing & Procurement for the Service Supply Chain
- Notwithstanding the many well-publicized strategic sourcing and e-procurement initiatives, few service and maintenance operations have yet hit on a complete solution to their spending issues. While not without some benefits, the gains from previous efforts did not extend to all purchase categories and some were not sustained over time. Technology...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Tenaris SA Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And your first question comes from the line of Ole Slorer from Morgan Stanley. Ole Slorer - Morgan Stanley Thank you very much. I wonder if we can have some clarifications on some of the pricing trends. I mean if...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-08
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