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- Integrated Trade Systems, Inc. Is Able to Track and Ensure Timely Purchase Order Delivery by Using Biscom Delivery Server to Send Files Securely
- Integrated Trade Systems ITS provides procurement services for Mexican-owned PEtroleos MEXicanos PEMEX, the sixth largest oil company in the world. ITS needed a fast, efficient way for PEMEX's buyers to send purchase orders to suppliers all over the world, and for ITS to confirm and execute the orders with these...
- Tags: Server, Purchase Order, Procurement, Biscom, Integrated Trade Systems, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing
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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
- Webcasts
- Covisint, Inc.: e-Business on Wheels
- As the leading provider of e-Commerce, supply chain, and procurement services to the automotive sector, Covisint, Inc., needed a powerful, robust, and secure auction site capable of handling billions of dollars worth of B2B transactions. Covisint deployed Commerce One Auction Solution on Intel-based servers to create a highly scalable, flexible,...
- Tags: Auction Site, Covisint, Intel Corp., E-business, Purchasing & Procurement, Web Technology, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Business Operations, Internet
- Case studies
- Spearheading the Drive Toward Strategic Sourcing With mySAP Supplier Relationship Management
- Always hungry for new functionality and better performance, Alfa was keeping a close watch on the market for Supplier Relationship Management SRM software. Alfa, a US$5.6 billion Mexican conglomerate, replaced its legacy platform with mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM to streamline e-procurement processes and reduce costs. Alfa has a...
- Tags: Sourcing, mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, SAP AG, mySAP SRM, Alfa, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies
- 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
- Case studies
- TEKsystems Case Study: A Market Leader in the Defense and Technology Business Sectors and Top Department Of Defense (DOD) Contractor
- A market leader in the Defense and Technology sectors was awarded the Intelligence Information, Command and Control Equipment and Enhancements (ICE2) contract to provide Contractor Logistics Support CLS to the Department Of Defense Intelligence Information Systems' DODIIS worldwide communities. Upon contract award, the client needed to quickly procure additional security-cleared...
- Tags: Leader, TEKsystems, U.S. Department Of Defense, Purchasing & Procurement, 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
- Case studies
- mySAP All-in-One at Sparkice
- Sparkice was founded in 1996 with the vision of becoming a leading e-sourcing organization for Chinese products and services. There were no back-end ERP systems, and report generation - on Excel - was extremely difficult, necessitating a lot of manual work. Sales orders and invoices were also a problem, with...
- Tags: mySAP, e-Sourcing, SAP AG, Sparkice, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software
- Case studies
- Leading Telecom Company Uses mySAP Supplier Relationship Management (mySAP SRM) to Create an E-Procurement System That Spans the Globe
- Ericsson is the world's leading supplier of mobile systems. Seeing an opportunity to cut costs, increase productivity, and streamline its business-support system landscape, the company began investigating how it could implement a common global purchasing process in order to work with its suppliers in a more productive and uniform way....
- Tags: mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, E-procurement, SAP AG, Telecommunications, Ericsson Inc., mySAP SRM, Purchasing & Procurement, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Marketing
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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
- Case studies
- The Data Quality Lifeline: A Practical Approach to Strategic Sourcing
- This webcast describes the steps to becoming a strategic sourcing organization and the technology solutions that can help a person achieve his or her goals. This Web seminar describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing.
- Tags: Data Quality, Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- SumTotal System Case Study: Cornell University
- Consisting of 180 employees, Cornell University's Division of Financial Affairs houses the university's payroll, accounting and procurement functions, servicing tens of thousands of university students and employees. Approximately six years ago, the Division's Customer Training and Development team began to require training automation when the number of employees that needed...
- Tags: SumTotal Systems, Training, Cornell University, Workforce Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Human Resources, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Dutch Pensions Giant Builds System of the Future Thanks to HP Flexible Sourcing
- PGGM administers the compulsory pension's scheme for the healthcare and social work sector of the Dutch economy. PGGM embarked on an ambitious five-year plan to migrate all its systems from mainframe and Sun onto a totally new solution built to open standards with Microsoft .NET and running principally on HP...
- Tags: Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., PGGM, Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Strategy, Software Development, Servers, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management, Software/Web Development, Hardware
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- Procurement Services Company Reduces Costs, Expands Market Scope
- 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.$15 million in procurement costs in 2003. In order to expand its customer base, Xpress Source decided to deploy a secure, Web-based, automated order-entry system. To protect...
- Tags: Procurement, Microsoft Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- E-Procurement System Wins Company New Clients in 90 Days at 60 Per Cent of the Cost of Unix
- Yokogawa Electric Corporation's industrial automation business area sells up to 13,000 products, which can be ordered in 100,000 combinations. Ordering the appropriate combination of these products can take a lot of time, which has led to demands for faster turnaround amongst customers. To simplify the procedure, Yokogawa looked to Microsoft...
- Tags: E-procurement, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Purchasing & Procurement, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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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
- Case studies
- University of Pennsylvania Streamlines Procurement, Saving $7.8 Million
- The University of Pennsylvania Penn is a highly-regarded institution of higher learning - from its undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools to its interdisciplinary research and scholarship programs. The university wanted to enable mass supplier content by extending the breadth of the existing Web-based supplier exchange and enhance the value of...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Supplier, Procurement, Channel Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Marketing, Business Operations
- Case studies
- National Procurement Business Minimises Training Costs and Streamlines Service
- The Consortium is a national procurement and fulfilment business with customers in the education, training, and social care sectors. The company previously used Lotus Notes for messaging, but found that new staff rarely had experience of this software, placing excessive demand on its helpdesk team. The Consortium needed a new...
- Tags: Procurement, Microsoft Corp., Training, Procurement Business, Purchasing & Procurement, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Servers, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Beyond "Lowest Total Cost": The Move From Global Sourcing to Global Market-Making
- Global sourcing is going mainstream - helping companies leverage low-cost labor and overhead to acquire goods and materials for less money. However, in today's well-connected world, low-cost country sourcing opportunities shouldn't be the sole inspiration for new business initiatives. Instead, retailers and manufacturers need to see that the world is...
- Tags: Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers
- Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Licensing Briefing: Enterprise Agreement (Level 100)
- If the organization has more than 200 users and utilizes Microsoft products, it may be time to take a closer look at the great value provided by Microsoft infrastructure products and the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement EA. This webcast explains how the EA works, how much it costs, the key benefits,...
- Tags: Software, Webcast, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Asset Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Digital Media, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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