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- 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
- e-Procurement - Strengthening the Indirect Supply Chain Through Technology Globalization
- e-Procurement focuses on several innovative solutions with a single global Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system as a foundation. An Internet negotiations tool was introduced to achieve additional cost savings and negotiation efficiencies. This paper outlines the challenges, improvements, and results for the e-Procurement program that transformed the Intel IDM organization...
- Tags: Supply Chain, E-procurement, Globalization, Negotiation, Intel Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Free Trade, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-08-03
- 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
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- Guide: How to Participate in the Pima County Procurement Process
- County procurement processes are defined by Arizona State Statutes, Pima County Board of Supervisors Policy and the Pima County Procurement Code. The Pima County Procurement Department is dedicated to promoting the conservation of public funds and conducting its Procurement processes in a fair, open and equitable manner. The purpose of...
- Tags: Procurement, Pima County Procurement Department, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-11-08
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Proposal for an Action Plan for the Implementation of the Legal Framework for Electronic Public Procurement
- The eEurope Action Plan called on the Council and the European Parliament to adopt as quickly as possible the legislative package on procurement Directives and on Member States to carry out a significant part of public procurement electronically by end of 2005. The first target was met in April 2004...
- Tags: Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-12-13
- 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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