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• Making It Pay

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  Financial services companies face an unrelenting challenge to lower their cost base and streamline operations to keep pace in today's competitive and unforgiving world markets. With margins shrinking and customers wary, senior executives must focus all their energies on what can lift their businesses above the pack and deliver shareholder...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial Service, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance

• Real Results From Purchase-to-Pay Opportunities

  BNET - 2005-08-16

  This paper explicates how outsourcing procurement operations can help organizations successfully transform procurement and deliver benefits to increase shareholder value. The right provider also brings proven multinational, multicurrency processes and operations, supported by dedicated technology solutions that enhance the process, along with a level of professional management across the marketplace...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Outsourcing, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Alternative Procurement Strategies

  BNET - 2005-05-02

  Across the globe, public sector procurement seeks to adhere to several fundamental principles. There is a growing emphasis on effective communication between the public agency and the private sector vendors, transparency in executing transactions and gearing the procurement strategy to maximize value for money. This paper explores alternative and innovative...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

• Procurement Reform Using Strategic Sourcing

  BNET - 2004-04-15

  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...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Public Sector, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations

• Trends in Procurement: A Perspective

  BNET - 2003-07-26

  The nature of work in manufacturing industries competing and operating in global markets is changing. The expertise, world-view, and motivation of procurement specialists, together with strategically differentiated processes, remain the prerequisites to success.The principal driver of manufacturing outsourcing is asset management. An outsourcing strategy removes manufacturing assets, like equipment and...

  Tags: Asset, Montgomery Research Inc., Procurement, Outsourcing Strategy, Purchasing & Procurement, Asset Management, Outsourcing, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Operational Planning, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• A Holistic Approach To Realizing Sustained Results

  BNET - 2003-07-26

  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...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Supplier Relationship Management, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing

• E-Sourcing: Procurements Leading Edge

  BNET - 2002-04-29

  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...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., e-Sourcing, Supplier, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software