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Procurement Effectiveness at NATS
White Papers This paper summarises the range of measures taken to improve CAPEX procurement at NATS. A recent procurement improvement programme has taken a very broad look at all supply chain management practices at NATS, including those relating to...
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Procurement Services Company Reduces Costs, Expands Market Scope
White Papers An innovator in procurement business-process outsourcing, Xpress Source offers effective procurement practices and skilled negotiations that saved its Fortune 1000 customers more than U.S.million in procurement costs in 2003.
[November 22, 2006, 0:00]
Procurement and Supplier Collaboration
White Papers Many procurement organizations are bogged down with complex and manual purchasing of raw materials, supplies, and services, preventing them from taking advantage of their strategic procurement skills to ad value to the business.
[December 22, 2006, 0:00]
Defense Logistics Agency's SRM Initiative: Procurement Support for Defense Worldwide
White Papers Defense Logistics Agency to meet the procurement needs of defense organizations around the world. This webcast examines how SAP solutions for ERP and SRM enable the U.S.
[January 17, 2005, 23:00]
Bracknell Forest Borough Council - Procurement Strategy 2005
White Papers Procurement in the wider sense encompasses the whole process of acquiring external goods and services, from determining and specifying the requirement, reviewing the market, sourcing suppliers, obtaining and evaluating bids, negotiating and...
[June 17, 2005, 3:00]
ID card-scheme reaches procurement 'milestone'
News The Identity and Passport Service's (IPS) framework procurement has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, inviting potential suppliers to make approaches. The IPS predicts total spending on these procurement contracts will...
[August 10, 2007, 8:59]
UK leads in Galileo-procurement shortlist
News The procurement process should lead to the creation of Europe's answer to America's Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation of satellites. The shortlist of companies bidding to build Europe's Galileo satellite system has been released, with...
[September 22, 2008, 13:31]
IT-procurement deal to save Wales £6m
News The agreement was led by the Welsh Further Education Purchasing Consortium (WFEPC), in conjunction with Value Wales, a division of the Welsh Assembly set up to promote best-practice procurement among public-sector bodies in Wales.
[August 10, 2007, 9:30]
Avnet, Inc. Leverages IBM Expertise to Reduce Procurement Costs
White Papers The challenge was to reduce the total cost of ownership of procurement solutions, including lowering both the cost of managing the process and the cost of items procured. The solution implemented was the IBM Leveraged Procurement Services from IBM...
[April 27, 2005, 0:00]
e-Procurement - Strengthening the Indirect Supply Chain Through Technology Globalization
White Papers e-Procurement focuses on several innovative solutions with a single global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as a foundation. This paper outlines the challenges, improvements, and results for the e-Procurement program that transformed the...
[January 4, 2006, 0:01]
Process Mapping - CSU Chico Information Technology Procurement
White Papers In fall 1999, a self-directed team of individuals involved in various aspects of technology procurement activities realized that Chico's procurement process - a process that had been in place for over 15 years - was in need of change.
[April 27, 2005, 0:00]
Government IT procurement slammed
News In particular the IT framework agreements of the trading arm of government procurement body the Office of Government Commerce have come under fire for excluding SMB suppliers. A spokeswoman for OGC Buying Solutions said the procurement process for...
[February 22, 2005, 8:05]
Multimedia Company Streamlines Procurement
White Papers With the Next Generation Purchasing Desktop (NGPD), T-Systems MMS has substantially improved the user friendliness of IT-systems for e-procurement and e-sourcing. T-Systems MultiMedia Solutions (T-Systems MMS) of Dresden is the leading Internet and...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
Knowledge Sharing Across Agencies and States Provides for Smarter Procurement
White Papers To eliminate redundant processes, retain knowledge, and save costs, the Illinois Department of Central Management Services created a Knowledge Management (KM) system that consolidates procurement resources from all agencies and other states into...
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
AMS Advantage Procurement
White Papers The public sector procurement process is multifaceted and complex. AMS Advantage Procurement was built with these complexities in mind. Designed specifically for the public sector, AMS Advantage Procurement helps you streamline the procurement...
[August 30, 2005, 3:00]
UK government to trial XML e-procurement system
News The government is to trial XML interoperability standards that will allow different departmental e-procurement systems to talk to each other. Whitehall procurement body the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) had initially planned to develop its...
[June 18, 2003, 15:32]
Agency-Wide Purchasing Reporting Reduces Procurement Costs
White Papers The company wanted a fully integrated system that maps all procurement processes and can be linked to the catalog system and our existing financial systems. With 90,000 employees, the Bundesagentur fu Arbeit (BA), Germany's federal employment...
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Sweden: Public e-procurement System Saves Taxpayers' Money
White Papers Accepting the common wisdom that a lot of taxpayers' money can be saved by coordinating public procurement procedures, the Swedish government established a coordination function for public procurement in 1998.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Nissan Develops a New Global Procurement System with mySAP SRM
White Papers Download this SAP Customer Success Story to read more about Nissan's mySAP SRM implementation and how it is helping the automaker streamline its procurement processes. Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.has developed a new production-parts sourcing and...
[April 4, 2007, 13:45]
Xchanging Helps Customers Increase Profit With Sarbanes-Oxley Compliant Procurement Solution
White Papers International business process outsourcing company Xchanging plc specializes in handling large, complex, back-office processing services for procurement, financial, and accounting operations. The company wanted to implement a Sarbanes-Oxley...
[November 3, 2007, 0:00]
