Public Procurement Of Timber: EU Member State Initiatives For Sourcing Legal And Sustainable Timber
White Papers Unlike the FLEGT licensing scheme, individual member states can adopt procurement policies without needing further EU legislation and without having to negotiate agreements with producer countries outside the EU.
[June 24, 2005, 0:00]
Ariba Spend Management For The Pharmaceutical Industry
White Papers Ariba Spend Management solutions allow pharmaceutical companies to automate and streamline every step in the sourcing and procurement process; from spend analysis to negotiation to supplier selection to payment.
[July 7, 2005, 0:00]
Saks Automates Purchasing With Advanced E-Procurement System
White Papers IBM provided an on-demand e-sourcing service called Leveraged Procurement Services (LPS), plus procurement and other expertise from IBM Global Services. LPS, an advanced e-procurement system, combines the Ariba Buyer software solution and strategic...
[April 29, 2005, 0:00]
Putting The Pressure On Outside Suppliers
News The software suite also allows procurement departments to configure business processes, such as sourcing rules, workflow, and access permissions, to accommodate multiple divisions, departments and locations.
[October 20, 2003, 11:55]
Australian Government Offers Open-source Guide
News The guide's format is expected to closely follow that of the existing ICT Sourcing guide (which provides information, approaches and tools for agencies to consider when adopting and implementing new ICT investments), while dealing with issues...
[July 7, 2004, 10:55]
E-Procurement Systems: Beyond Indirect Procurement
White Papers Trading exchanges are attempting to strengthen any conceivable weak links within the supply chain, yet there is clearly no one application vendor or trading exchange that supports all facets of procurement, from sourcing to procure-to-pay, across...
[April 29, 2005, 0:00]
The Strategic Need For Real-Time Competitive Bidding In The Public Sector Procurement Process
White Papers By using information technology and the immediacy of Internet communications, e-sourcing and e-procurement are radically transforming the purchasing process. The facts are clear: moving to electronic purchasing methods can produce remarkable...
[October 20, 2003, 0:00]
Ariba Spend Management For The Retail Industry
White Papers Ariba Spend Management enables retailers to automate and expedite all their sourcing and procurement activities. Integration of analysis, sourcing, contract management, purchasing, and invoicing procedures into a spend management system makes the...
[July 7, 2005, 0:00]
Ariba Spend Management For The Public Sector
White Papers Ariba Spend Management enables public sector users to automate and expedite all their sourcing and procurement activities. Integration of analysis, sourcing, supplier selection, contract management, purchasing, and invoicing procedures into a spend...
[July 7, 2005, 0:00]
Helping Your Organization Reduce Spend And Increase Operational Efficiencies
White Papers It also discusses the vital role an IBM WebSphere Commerce software-based strategic sourcing and e-procurement solution, such as ezMarket from IBM Business Partner Digital Union, can play in helping your organization reduce spend and increase...
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
The Benefits Of E-Procurement: Local E-Gov - National E-Procurement Project
White Papers The project has delivered real practical support and guidance to help authorities plan the stages of an e-procurement implementation.e-Procurement is a tool to enable procurement activities, including sourcing, ordering, commissioning, receipting...
[May 2, 2005, 0:00]
Federal Acquisition Council: Manager's Guide To Competitive Sourcing
White Papers The Federal Acquisition Council (FAC), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) aim to help every federal agency successfully and transparently implement competitive sourcing.
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Corporate E-Procurement Strategy: 2004 To 2007
White Papers The County Council defines e-procurement as the 'electronic exchange of information between the County Council and its suppliers and contractors from sourcing to payment within the procurement cycle'.e-Procurement is a part of the development and...
[April 29, 2005, 0:00]
Stop Drowning In Data: A Strategic Sourcing Web Series - Beyond Simply Treading Water: Why Procurement Data Quality Matters
White Papers This webcast describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing; five keys to transforming the procurement organization from transactional to strategic; the strategic sourcing continuum and how to determine the organization's...
[August 31, 2007, 0:00]
Enterprises Drive Competitive Advantage Through SRM
White Papers This goes beyond e-procurement and strategic sourcing to embrace the collaborative creation and management of supplier-enterprise products and processes. Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) has emerged as enterprises seek to create a more...
[January 14, 2005, 23:00]
IBM Application Hosting For Ariba Spend Management
White Papers Now, with IBM Application Hosting for Ariba Spend Management, you can quickly and cost-effectively deploy integrated sourcing and procurement solutions - without a significant up-front investment in new e-business infrastructure.
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
Pirelli Implements Leading-Edge E-Procurement System
White Papers Achieve long-term decreases in the cost of materials and services through centralized strategic sourcing, volume aggregation, and standardization Download this case study to read more about the mySAP E-Procurement solution and the business value it...
[April 4, 2007, 0:00]
Project Management: Managing The Integration And Creation Of A Supplier Extranet
White Papers The focus of this project is to create tighter linkages with the client's supplier base by creating a Supplier Extranet that integrates the sourcing and procurement systems. MDI's client is a large division of a Fortune 100 corporation, posting...
[April 14, 2006, 0:00]
MAP: Intelligent Decision Support For Sourcing
White Papers Strategic sourcing requires a holistic process that automates the entire sourcing process, including order planning, RFQ creation, bid evaluation, negotiation, settlement, and order execution. The key to realizing cost savings is to aggregate the...
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
ABSolute: An Intelligent Decision Making Framework For E-Sourcing
White Papers ABSolute is an application framework for electronic sourcing. Efficient selection of bids and product offerings is a key requirement in today's procurement processes. Traditional approaches to multi-attribute decision making (MADM) are often...
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]

