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How Web services cured my integration headaches
Integrating applications often means data-mapping problems, since applications are usually very specific in the data they collect. Read how one member used Web services to solve this problem and a few others he encountered on his latest project.By Rich MealeyI was fortunate to be one of the first software engineers...
Tags: Web services, Channel management, Guest Contributor, Web service, Web, auction application, procurement application, business object, procurement
Technical articles 2001-10-23

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NSW Government Procurement Guidelines: Procurement Planning
Procurement planning is a process where agencies review current procurement processes, identify future needs and direction for procurement management and investment. The NSW Government Procurement Policy establishes a comprehensive procurement framework, which assists government agencies in the efficient delivery of services and ensures procurement strategies are consistent with the Government's...
Tags: Government, Procurement, Procurement Planning, NSW Government Procurement Policy, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2001-03-01
Procurement Guidelines: Managing Delegation in Electronic Procurement
Electronic procurement (e-procurement) is the use of e-commerce for procurement. It involves the use of electronic technologies to automate and streamline the procurement processes of an organisation, improving efficiency and transparency, and thereby reducing the costs of those processes for the organisation. Bearing in mind the scope of the procurement...
Tags: Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2002-10-01
Procurement: It's Your Business!
Procurement (which includes work that is sometimes called buying, purchasing or contracting) is a big part of the Suffolk county council's business with nearly £300 million spent on goods, services and construction every year. Procurement across the council has been reviewed as part of the Best Value Programme and a...
Tags: Council, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2004-10-01
Complete Turnaround - Giant Step Into the Digital Economy With mySAP E-Procurement
KirchMedia, one of Europe's leading media groups, was keen to streamline the effort and cost involved in its indirect procurement activities. It turned to mySAP E-Procurement to convert a predominantly manual, paper-based system to a highly automated, electronic workflow. The core element of mySAP E-Procurement is Enterprise Buyer Professional Edition,...
Tags: mySAP, E-procurement, SAP AG, Purchasing & Procurement, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software
Case studies
Procurement and Supplier Collaboration
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. The mySAP ERP application helps turn procurement into a business-critical, strategic activity that automates and streamlines processes...
Tags: Supplier, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2006-03-01
Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines
The Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines CPGs apply to procurement conducted by all officials in agencies and in relevant CAC Act bodies. Procurement encompasses the whole process of acquiring property or services. It begins when an agency has identified a need and decided on its procurement requirement. Procurement continues through the processes...
Tags: Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2005-01-01
What You Need to Implement an E-Procurement Solution
Procurement is the purchasing of product components, standard raw materials, customized supplies, and other goods needed to conduct business operation. E-procurement applies Internet technologies to the buying process in the supply chain. As businesses seek to improve cash management and reduce administrative costs, e-procurement is more than just an attractive...
Tags: E-procurement, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers
Faster Procurement: Procurement Process Study Report
This paper represents the current state of play in looking at how the procurement process can be developed and improved for the benefit of projects. The annexes include two critical path CP diagrams to illustrate the activities required for a procurement using the Negotiated Procedure for an IT-enabled project and...
Tags: Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2004-11-23
Transforming the Procurement Organization for a New Era
What organizational changes are necessary to transform procurement? It is becoming clear that the rigid, hierarchical organizational structure of the past must give way to a more adaptive, cross-functional structure that reaches beyond the traditional realm of procurement and into all company functions. Although important, structural changes to the procurement...
Tags: Procurement, Procurement Organization, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2006-04-01
Sweden: Public e-procurement System Saves Taxpayers' Money
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. The task was to coordinate the procurement of all 300 authorities operating directly under the government and its more than...
Tags: E-procurement, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations
Case studies
Avnet, Inc. Leverages IBM Expertise to Reduce Procurement Costs
Avnet, Inc. (www.avnet.com), based in Phoenix, is one of the world's largest business-to-business distributors of semiconductors; interconnect passive and electromechanical components; enterprise network and computer equipment; and embedded systems from leading manufacturers. The challenge was to reduce the total cost of ownership of procurement solutions, including lowering both the cost...
Tags: AvNet Inc., E-procurement, Procurement, IBM Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Business Services, Business Operations
Case studies
Verbund Turns to mySAP E-Procurement
Verbund, Austria's largest power generator and distributor, relies on integrated software solutions from SAP to optimize its procurement and sales processes. Deregulation within the EU put the business under pressure to rationalize as fast as possible, and as a result, mySAP E-Procurement was implemented in a record time of two...
Tags: mySAP, E-procurement, SAP AG, Procurement, Verbund Management Team, Purchasing & Procurement, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Sales, Software
Case studies
Procurement Effectiveness at NATS
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 organisation, skills, processes, suppliers and tools. NATS procurement operations have subsequently been benchmarked...
Tags: Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-11-29
AMS Advantage Procurement
The public sector procurement process is multifaceted and complex. At the state and local levels, decentralized or disparate organizations, tight budgets, and local control concerns may further complicate a system where fairness and public scrutiny are also key factors. AMS Advantage Procurement was built with these complexities in mind. Designed...
Tags: CGI Group Inc., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2004-10-07
Electronic Public Procurement in EU Member States: Country Reviews
The Internal Market Strategy sets out the target by 2006, to carry out a significant part of public procurement on an electronic basis and by 2010, to ensure that electronic public procurement has been generalised to meet the Lisbon objectives. To meet the targets, the European Commission adopted an Action...
Tags: Procurement, European Union, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
White papers 2004-12-01
Swarovski Takes New Steps in Electronic Ordering and Gains a Competitive Advantage
In spite of the company's impressive track record, Swarovski knew it had to modernize its procurement strategy. With the implementation of the e-procurement tool within mySAP Supplier Relationship Management at this family-owned, Austria-based company, Swarovski significantly improved the efficiency of its procurement processes. Even after just a few months of...
Tags: E-procurement, Competitive Advantage, Procurement, Swarovski, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
Case studies
Understand the PM's role in procurement management
In most organizations, the project manager should understand the basics of procurement management. Learn about the six processes within the Project Procurement Management knowledge areas. by Tom Mochal
Tags: Procurement Management, Team, Project Manager, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Team Management, Business Operations, Management, Tom Mochal
Blog posts 2008-09-30
Gaining Procurement Expertise With Enterprise Buyer Professional
Towards the end of 2000, WestEK decided to implement an electronic procurement and marketplace solution. This procurement exchange was set up to eliminate the need for point-to-point communication between each individual buyer and seller and to facilitate collaboration between multiple buyers and sellers in a fully automated environment. Based on...
Tags: E-procurement, SAP AG, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
Case studies
Modern Procurement Practice in Local Government: Local Performance Indicators for Procurement
Local performance indicators are voluntary measures that local authorities may use to monitor performance and progress. This set of local performance indicators has been developed through the Library of Local Performance Indicators IDeA and Audit Commission with the Society of Procurement Officers SOPO and a wide group of stakeholders in...
Tags: Performance, Government, Procurement, Performance Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations
White papers 2004-12-08
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