Measuring Misalignment: Purchasing Power Parity And East Asian Currencies In The 1990s
White Papers The concept of purchasing power parity (PPP) is used to evaluate whether eight East Asian currencies were overvalued on the eve of the 1997 crises. The Johansen and Horvath-Watson cointegration test procedures are applied to bilateral and...
[September 17, 2003, 0:00]
Purchasing Software Intensive Systems Using Quality Targets
White Papers DoD Airlie guidelines on purchasing software intensive systems lists “16 Critical Software Practices for Performance Based Management”. This practice is becoming fundamental in both Defense and commercial purchasing organizations, especially...
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Purchasing Site Takes Off Quickly At Mercury With The .NET Framework And Extreme Programming
White Papers Mercury Companies, a real estate financial services holding company, had an existing corporate purchasing Web site that was unreliable, hard to use, and poorly regarded by users. Mercury built a new Web-based purchasing portal using Microsoft...
[June 11, 2004, 0:00]
Purchasing MS Office 2003
Forum I'm looking at purchasing the above. I'm a consultant that owns a limited company and have looked at purchasing the small business edition or the professional pack but it doesn't come with MS Project.
[February 3, 2006, 10:52]
Telecommunications Giant Belgacom Opts For SAP To Optimize All Purchasing Processes
White Papers In spite of its success and an annual turnover of some £5.22 billion, Belgacom NV needed to streamline its purchasing processes. Now, purchasing is much simpler, which helps the company save time, money, and resources.
[September 14, 2007, 0:00]
Bank Of Montreal Re-Engineers Its Purchasing Methodologies And Reduces Overall Procurement Costs Using Oracle
White Papers Oracle iProcurement allows Bank of Montreal to standardize purchase processes, eliminate unnecessary approvals or redundant transfers, and eliminate inefficient manual processes thereby reducing the length of the purchasing cycle.
[September 8, 2005, 0:00]
Groupe Castel Integrates Purchasing And Suppliers Via 100% Web-Based Interactive Management Solution
White Papers The company wanted to streamline and improve control over purchasing processes and centralize purchasing of dry materials, such as bottles, stoppers, caps, and labels. The Groupe Castel, founded in Bordeaux, France, in 1949 by the Castel brothers...
[September 5, 2007, 0:00]
Sourcing For Government: Dawn Of A New Era In Public Purchasing
White Papers Ultimately, access to an exchange environment, where many buyers and sellers can aggregate their purchasing power to maximize the value of their procurement spend, allows both standard spot bids or quotes as well as auctions or even sealed...
[April 29, 2005, 0:00]
Finansbank Restructures Purchasing Process By Establishing Single Department
White Papers The challenge was to establish a single purchasing cycle, integrate all purchasing activities across branches and regions, and speed approval cycles and reduce cost, while improving the efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of purchasing...
[June 30, 2007, 0:00]
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Gains Rapid Returns With Pre-Approved Financial And Purchasing Solutions
White Papers The company wanted to implement best-practice, integrated, automated, managed financial and purchasing management applications from a supplier approved by the NHS National Service Framework. The company evaluated several suppliers and selected...
[June 30, 2007, 0:00]
Intelligent Document Automation To Increase Purchasing Process Efficiency With ERP Systems
White Papers For many organizations running packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and other vendors, purchasing processes still involve conventional mail or fax delivery of purchase orders and...
[April 30, 2008, 0:00]
Purchasing Manager
Downloads Purchasing Manager builds databases of POs, vendors, and items as you order, making re-ordering quick and consistent. This purchase order software gives you the ability to create and manage purchase orders with a few clicks, Track vendors, and...
[September 17, 2007, 2:46]
State Of California Switches $4bn Purchasing Online
News It has hired Andersen Consulting to integrate the software with its PeopleSoft purchasing system and Visa International purchasing card payment system, known as CalCard. Chuck Grady, California's chief procurement officer, said the state expects to...
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Saks Automates Purchasing With Advanced E-Procurement System
White Papers Saks wanted to automate its manual system with an Internet-based e-procurement system that would simplify purchasing, facilitate new business processes and save money. Saks Incorporated purchases more than $900 million in non-retail merchandise...
[April 29, 2005, 0:00]
XPRESS - Xerox Global Purchasing Measures The Benefits Of Business-to-Business Procurement Using SAP's Business Warehouse
White Papers Amongst the much hyped benefits and huge potential savings of e-Procurement there is one company, Xerox Xpress, the global purchasing operation of Xerox Corporation who are able to report real numbers of the performance and benefits of their...
[October 21, 2004, 0:00]
How To.... Quantify And Realise The Benefits From E-Purchasing
White Papers e-Purchasing is usually the main component of an e-procurement capability. The term e-purchasing encompasses back office ordering systems, e-marketplaces and supplier websites, as defined within the Technical Solutions strand of the NePP project.
[May 2, 2005, 0:00]
Raytheon Automates Purchasing System With WRQ Verastream
White Papers One of its goals was to increase operating efficiency by creating a new web-based application that would completely automate the purchasing process. Raytheon Missile Systems wanted its business operations to be as advanced as its 21st-century...
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Aggregated Purchasing - A Clean Energy Strategy
White Papers Both federal and state governments typically have purchasing agencies that are responsible for procuring a variety of goods and services for member agencies. As large electricity purchasers, state and federal governments are well positioned to...
[June 8, 2005, 0:00]
How To Buy Information: The A-B-C’s Of Data Purchasing
White Papers This paper was written to help you understand the complex task of purchasing information and become an informed consumer. Caveat Emptor “Let the buyer beware” should not be an accepted phrase where data purchasing is concerned.
[December 29, 2003, 23:00]
Case Study: EProcurement In The NHS - NHS Purchasing And Supply Agency
White Papers The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency works with around 400 NHS trusts and health authorities and manages 3,000 national purchasing contracts, influencing around half of the £7 billion spent in the NHS on purchasing goods and services in the health...
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