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- Digital Procurement Solution Helps Streamline German E-Government
- A CSC team in Germany has created an online secure procurement system for the German government that replaces paper-based tender offers and helps Germany move toward a transparent "e-government" and a modernized administrative structure. In May 2001, the German Interior Ministry's Procurement Agency signed a contract with CSC Ploenzke, CSC's...
- Tags: Streamline, Computer Sciences Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- SCDOT Deploys Paperless Procurement System: Achieves Rapid ROI by Reducing Overhead and Cutting Costs
- With more than 5,100 employees, South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is a state government agency focused on promoting safe and efficient transportation. As one of 201 business units, the SCDOT Procurement Division provides a centralized source for pricing, bids and other documents. Critical goods and services were delayed due...
- Tags: Captaris Inc., ROI, Procurement, SCDOT, Purchasing & Procurement, Transportation, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software
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- Optimizing a Purchase Order Workflow Using a Web Solution
- Ranbaxy Laboratories is India's largest pharmaceutical company and is rated as one of the leading research-based international pharmaceutical organizations in the world. As a part of the procurement function of materials management, Ranbaxy has implemented a workflow-based purchase-order-approval process, for procurement of goods from vendors. While the SAP R/3 materials...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Web, Procurement, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Workflow, Purchasing & Procurement, Process Improvement, Business Operations, Quality
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- North Tyneside Council Modernizes Procurement Operations by Procuring for Best Value
- Situated between the mouth of the river Tyne and the city of Newcastle, North Tyneside Council provides local government services to 200,000 residents and businesses along the River Tyne in the northeast of England. As part of its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation of Oracle Financials, Oracle Procurement, and Oracle...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software
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- Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust Adopts E-Business Solution to Automate Key Processes, Sees Net Benefits of £1.2 Million Over Five Years
- Cardiff & Vale (National Health Service) NHS Trust in Wales has a dual mandate: deliver high quality care to all its citizens and ensure that their taxes, which pay for the system, are spent wisely. In 1999, Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust joined with 11 other Welsh trusts in mapping...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., Benefit, Procurement, E-business, Web Technology, Portals, Supply Chain Management (SCM), E-business/E-Commerce, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance
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- BS15000 Procurement and Service Management in a Multi-Supplier Environment for a Central Government Agency
- In order to support the objectives of consistent, quality services, the agency had a strategy to adopt and implement ITIL, the worldwide industry recognised best-practice Service Management framework. To support this strategy, suppliers were required to adopt ITIL and work towards BS15000, the standard for IT Service Management. BS15000 was...
- Tags: Service Management, Agency, Government, Procurement, ITIL, It Services, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
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- mySAP SRM at Pemex Gas
- Pemex Gas is the exclusive provider of natural gas to consumers and businesses in Mexico, but the government will soon open the market to other companies. To better position itself to face competition, Pemex Gas is improving its performance through better procurement processes. The company is using mySAP Supplier Relationship...
- Tags: mySAP, SAP AG, Procurement, mySAP SRM, Pemex Gas, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
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- Enhancing Manager Visibility and Control With State-of-The Art Project Management
- With 30 to 35 software projects running in parallel, Volkswagen AG's procurement organization was confronted with more than a few project management issues. Company managers needed easy access to solid, real-time information about project budgets, milestones, deliverables and quality, as well as a comprehensive understanding of development activities, in order...
- Tags: Volkswagen AG, Procurement, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, It Operations, It service Management
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- eSourcing Assessment
- This client was utilising an existing SAP procurement system, but considered that it was not realising the full benefits of the system. Capgemini was engaged to undertake a review of the client's use of the SAP system, together with a wider eSourcing assessment. The Capgemini team created an eVision for...
- Tags: Capgemini, e-Sourcing, SAP AG, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- Beyond Simply Treading Water: Why Procurement Data Quality Matters
- Strategic sourcing is the process of identifying opportunities, evaluating potential sources, negotiating contracts and continually managing those supplier relationships to achieve corporate goals and objectives. This webcast discusses how the importance of ensuring the cleanliness of data at both a supplier and commodity level is vital component of an effective...
- Tags: Sourcing, SAS Institute, Supplier, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing
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- ABB Controls Billions in Procurement Spend With SAS Supplier Relationship Management
- ABB, which supplies utilities and other industries with power and automation technologies, is a truly global corporation, with business units in some 100 countries and annual revenues close to US$15 billion. As a rule of thumb, such companies spend close to half of their revenues on subcontractors, creating very large...
- Tags: Supplier Relationship Management, SAS Institute, Procurement, ABB, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- AXA Australia Uses SAS SRM as a Procurement Temperature Gauge
- With nearly 2,000 employees and A$45.6 billion (US$32.6 billion) funds under management, AXA Australia is one of the country's foremost providers of wealth management and financial protection products and services. In an organization of this size, constant and accurate visibility of external spend patterns is an important part in the...
- Tags: Financial, SAS Institute, Procurement
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- The Soft Stuff Is Really the Hard Stuff: IMA's ERP Survival Kit
- For many companies, the price to be paid for ERP has been too big to bear. IMA implemented a $70 million SAP R/3 financial and procurement system at a major pharmaceutical corporation. IMA provided consultation, measurement, facilitation and action-learning. IMA played a key leadership role in all aspects of the...
- Tags: ERP, Procurement, Primavera Systems Inc., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Purchasing & Procurement, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Management
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- Inventec Cuts Cycle Times, Inventory, and Procurement Costs
- Malaysian-based Inventec Multimedia & Telecom (IMT), one of the world's leading providers of contract electronics manufacturing services and part of the US$3.5 billion Inventec Group of Companies, seeks to cut both production cycle time and inventory levels by 50% through the use of the Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle's E-Business Suite...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Procurement, Inventec, Operational Accounting, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software
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- Considering Procure-to-Pay Outsourcing?: Think Again...
- New research by The Hackett Group details the types of financial operations that are successfully and unsuccessfully being outsourced by Fortune 1000 organizations. For Procurement and Accounts Payable operations, the research results are very provocative. This webcast discusses how in-house shared service center models, together with the adoption of best...
- Tags: Financial, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
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- Emory University: Saving Millions With Electronic Procurement
- Until 1998, Emory University purchased all supplies and equipment the old-fashioned way: with paper-based requisitions routed through a central purchasing office. That year, officials switched to an electronic procurement system called Procure+ that puts Web-based requisitioning tools on the desktops of employees throughout all university facilities. The system has not...
- Tags: Procurement, Emory University, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- Government of Sri Lanka Report on Survey of Readiness for Electronic Government Procurement (e- GP)
- The e-GP Readiness Survey was conducted in Sri Lanka in July 2003 as part of a Study of Electronic Procurement commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The objectives of this study were to develop an Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) Strategy for use by the ADB as a potential funder...
- Tags: Asian Development Bank, Procurement, Survey, Member Country, Government, Vertical Industries, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
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- CIBER Implements Peoplesoft HRMS, Financials and Procurement for the State of Indiana
- In 1998, the Indiana State Personnel Department's (ISPD) human resources systems were slow, unresponsive, hard to access and use, and about to be made obsolete by Y2K. To resolve its Y2K problems and standardize the financial systems and operations of the state agencies, the State of Indiana formed the Government...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Procurement, HRMS, Organizational Structure, Y2K, Purchasing & Procurement, Human Resources, Business Operations
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- Cambridgeshire County Council Achieves Best Value
- Cambridgeshire County Council is comparable to a major business in terms of size and scale of operations. It is the largest employer within the county, and currently spends around £412m each year, averaging £780 for each man, women and child living in the county. As part of Cambridgeshire County Council's...
- Tags: Pitney Bowes Inc., Procurement, Cambridgeshire County Council, Purchasing & Procurement, Gender And Diversity, Business Operations, Human Resources
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- Mobile Solution Enables Hospital Staff to Devote Maximum Time to Patient Work, Not Paperwork
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is working with a new, Microsoft-based solution to relieve the pain of its traditional procurement processes. Today, busy employees have wireless access to all the ordering information they need from any location, via Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs. The results are significant cost savings, faster...
- Tags: Patient, Mobile, Procurement, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Solution, Purchasing & Procurement, Advertising & Promotion, Pocket PC, Business Operations, Marketing, Handhelds, Hardware
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