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- How to Engage in a Strategic Sourcing Relationship
- In business today, one fact has become clear: The ability to forge, manage and sustain strategic sourcing relationships is increasingly critical to competitive success. Such relationships, however, are often handled in an ad hoc, trial-and-error manner. Outsourcing providers can benefit from encouraging their potential clients as well as current clients...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- Strategic Sourcing is Palm's Pilot
- This paper is based on strategic planning which lowers the total product cost, higher gross profit margins and reduced inventory. Developing and maintaining relationships with suppliers of critical components is crucial to Palm's success. Often with high technology products a new piece of equipment is introduced with a high price...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- Low Cost Country Strategic Sourcing
- Many CPOs are reviewing the opportunity and challenge of globalization and the effect it will have on their extended enterprise. This article asserts that the supply chain organization must put focus on the global economy in order to understand the new risks and opportunities associated with it. A focused effort...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Service Process Optimization Through Services: Automation and Global Strategic Sourcing
- CIO's and the departments they manage are challenged by a new working reality that includes tighter budgets and growing demand for demonstrable return on investments. Even as the resources available to them become increasingly constrained, IT departments also face greater pressure from executives and board members to align their activities...
- White papers 2003-01-10
- Strategic Sourcing in the Air Force
- Air Force efforts to improve its sourcing program have given first priority to competitive sourcing. The Air Force is interested in competitive sourcing primarily because, historically, it has clearly helped cut the costs of Air Force support services. Growing commercial interest in outsourcing stems from a different source - a...
- White papers 2002-07-10
- Strategic Sourcing of IT Infrastructure Services to Enable Business Agility: A Conceptual Framework
- Well-planned Information Technology IT Infrastructure services are critical for companies pursuing strategic agility. The traditional bricks-and-mortar organisation and the virtual organisation cannot be separated as easily as they have in the past. Companies are organising themselves both physically and virtually, from their Customers to their Supply Chains. In the process...
- White papers 2003-11-24
- 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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- Strategic Sourcing
- Most financial institutions face pressure to improve their levels of service while cutting costs. At the same time, they must be increasingly nimble in responding to customer demands and enhancing their competitive advantage. Sourcing, and in particular outsourcing, is often heralded as a solution to these challenges. Instead, they result...
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Achieving High Performance In The Chemicals Industry: Sourcing Of Complex Categories
- In mid-1990s, executives across industries wondered if strategic sourcing was the next passing fad - the strategy consulting flavor of the day. Ten years later, it is clear that sourcing has become a critical activity that is being welded more and more permanently into the supply chain function as a...
- White papers 2006-11-22
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- Siebel Systems and IBM Expand Global Strategic Alliance for Enterprise Business Intelligence Solutions
- LOS ANGELES -- Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL) and IBM, today announced an expansion of their global strategic alliance focused on Siebel Business Analytics at the Siebel Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles. The companies announced cooperation in the design of the new Siebel Enterprise Analytic Applications introduced today, leveraging IBM...
- Research articles 2004-10-04
- Fortune 100 Process Manufacturer Selects Verticalnet to Improve Global Supply Management and Strategic Sourcing
- MALVERN, Pa. -- Verticalnet Chosen to Strengthen Control Over Supplier Contract Compliance, Performance and Identify New Global Sourcing Opportunities
- Research articles 2005-12-08
- ASU highlights strategic sourcing. (Professional Development Opportunities).
- Arizona State University will present best practices for integrating strategic sourcing with supply management in its four-day course. The "Strategic Sourcing and Supply Management Program" will provide participants with a process model f Arizona State University will present best practices for integrating strategic...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- PA Consulting Group and Lost Wax join forces to offer strategic sourcing solutions to large companies; PA Consulting Group is to incorporate Lost Wax's proprietary Agent technology into its Strategic Sourcing application.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 April 2001-PA CONSULTING: PA Consulting Group and Lost Wax join forces to offer strategic sourcing solutions to large companies; PA Consulting Group is to incorporate Lost Wax's proprietary Agent technology into its Strategic Sourcing application C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD ...
- Research articles 2001-04-12
- Ariba Delivers Improved Functionality to Market-Leading Strategic Sourcing Solution; Solution Combines the Best of Recently Merged Ariba and FreeMarkets
- SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- AribaR, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARBA), the leading Spend Management solutions provider, today announced the release and delivery of a Visibility and Sourcing Solution "feature pack" representing the unification of FreeMarkets and Ariba technological capabilities on a single Spend Management platform. Ariba merged with FreeMarkets in July of this year....
- Research articles 2004-09-30
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