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- e-sourcing: Covering the Regulatory Bases
- When clinical professionals are asked for ways to improve clinical development, they consistently rank electronic solutions as a key strategy. They cite electronic tools, such as e-sourcing, as essential to improving data quality, data access, cycle time, and safety. This article explains how capturing clinical source data electronically can hit...
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- e-sourcing in Procurement: Theory and Behavior in Reverse Auctions With Non-Competitive Contracts
- One of the goals of procurement is to establish a competitive price while affording the buyer some flexibility in selecting the suppliers to deal with. Reverse auctions do not have this flexibility, because it is the auction rules and not the buyer that determine the winner. In practice, however, hybrid...
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Establishing Mutual Equity for Buyers & Sellers With e-sourcing
- In traditional sourcing situations, buyers and sellers are inherently at odds. On one hand, buyers are mainly interested in driving down costs and receiving the highest return on investment (or the biggest bang for the buck). On the other hand, sellers are more interested in protecting margins, while pushing volume....
- White papers 2005-03-01
- eSourcing Capability Model: A Measure of High Performance
- The focal point of this article is the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM SP), which is a set of essential and desirable practices for outsourcing providers that addresses the complete process lifecycle and encourages providers to innovate. Companies seeking a best-of-breed outsourcing partner can now use the eSourcing...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- 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
- Realizing Rapid Results using eSourcing Tools
- This article is for those who adopt eSourcing practices, companies are realizing tangible results rapidly using Internet negotiations tools. This study provides a high-level overview of the categories sourced in the three prior years (2000-2002), and includes results segmented by geographic region in-depth analyses of select direct and indirect category...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Spend Visibility: The Next Frontier Of e-sourcing
- From the executive summary: ‘Many companies have already figured out the benefits of integrating technology into their sourcing processes. Some of the world’s leading and largest organizations are increasingly leveraging sourcing technologies such as online markets to streamline the contract negotiation process and enable greater collaboration between their buyers and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Thinking Beyond e-sourcing to Maximise Purchasing Power
- This article evaluates the options for organizations that want to better automate their strategic and transactional purchasing processes. It describes how investment decisions on e-procurement and e-sourcing solutions need to be considered as part of a wider purchasing and information systems strategy for the business as a whole. Finally, it...
- White papers 2002-12-17
- e-sourcing: Procurements Leading Edge
- E-Sourcing opportunities provide competitive advantage by significantly influencing the price and quality of purchased materials and services, as well as improving supply chain responsiveness. Sourcing sets the stage for the entire company's purchase of direct and indirect materials, and involves high-level, company-wide approaches to: Obtaining materials and services, Identifying and...
- White papers 2002-04-29
- Getting on the Fast Track to ROI in e-sourcing
- Return on investment is a profitability projection for a project. ROI is expressed by how much net revenue increases and/or operational savings are expected to exceed project investments over a period of time. ROI can be expressed as a percentage or as a multiple of the total investments. In these...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- My Turn: Being Selective About Your e-sourcing
- Strategic sourcing is at the top of corporate agendas. Therefore, in order for the corporation to remain competitive, the concern is not whether or not one should strategically source, but how. Fortunately, technology known as “strategic e-sourcing” has recently emerged, and it has the capacity to automate enterprise-class sourcing processes....
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Putting The Strategy Back In Your Sourcing
- Automated request for quotes (RFQs) and reverse auctions have practically become second nature to sourcing professionals who, as a rule, like to negotiate for the best price among the widest selection of qualified suppliers. The newest trend among enablers is to offer “end-to-end” sourcing solutions, which is an entire platform...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Global Enabled Supply Chain Series: Strategic e-sourcing
- The ability to evaluate suppliers based on multiple non-price decision factors is indeed one of the hallmarks of strategic e-sourcing. However, there are a host of other benefits that these tools facilitate, depending on the definition of strategic e-sourcing to which a technology enabler adheres. In today's market, it appears...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- e-sourcing: 21st Century Purchasing
- As e-business transforms the market for goods and services globally, it is redefining the way companies manage their supply chains. E-sourcing whether through an electronic catalog, online auction or virtual buying community, is emerging as one of the quickest and least painful ways for companies to boost their bottom line...
- White papers 2000-04-20
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- E SOURCE Launches Intelligent Grid Service for Utilities
- New Research and Advisory Service Focuses on Advanced Metering and Grid Solutions BOULDER, Colo., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- E SOURCE today announced the June launch of the E SOURCE Intelligent Grid Service, introducing advanced metering and smart grid research and advisory solutions to its utility-focused offerings. This...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- B2X.com e-sourcing™ Technology Creates New Worldwide Global Goods and Services Exchange
- B2X applies technology from IBM, SAP and Oracle to simplify the risks of sourcing, manufacturing, and logistical tasks to manage sourcing and procurement from China JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Worldwide Goods and Services Exchange, B2X Corporation, today announced it has assembled an unprecedented team of blue-chip technology suppliers,...
- Articles 2008-04-30
- Piramal Healthcare Selects Emptoris for Global e-sourcing
- Piramal Healthcare has selected EmptorisInc., a leading provider of enterprise supply and contract managementsoftware, to provide its global sourcing solutions. Piramal Healthcare will use the Emptoris Sourcing solution to source bothindirect and direct materials and services. The solution will be rolled outto more than ten locations across the company, including...
- Articles 2008-04-16
- Nitor Partners Joins Zycus Partner Network for e-sourcing and Spend Management to Support Customer Initiatives
- Chooses Zycus eSourcing Suite and Zycus Actionable Spend Analysis for End-to-End Solutions PRINCETON, N.J. -- Zycus Inc., a global leader in Spend Management software solutions, today announced that Nitor Partners has joined the partner network as a premier partner. Nitor Partners is a management consulting firm that aligns...
- Articles 2008-03-18
- PHT's Revolutionary SitePad(TM) Tablet Forever Changes Site-Based Clinical Data Capture
- PHT Corporation is pleased to introduce itsrevolutionary SitePad(TM) Tablet, a breakthrough eSource technology answerto intense market demand for trustworthy site-based PRO data. The SitePadTablet is a user-friendly and large-screen mobile device which guaranteescomplete and timely questionnaire data from subjects and clinicians atsites around the world. The SitePad Tablet delivers the...
- Articles 2008-03-05
- E SOURCE Strengthens Mass Market and Small Business Services With New Director Douglas A. Karl
- BOULDER, Colo., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- E SOURCE, an energy business intelligence provider, has hired Douglas A. Karl as its new director of mass market services. Mr. Karl will lead and manage all aspects of the company's residential and small business service offerings, including the E SOURCE Residential Energy...
- Articles 2008-03-03
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