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- University of Pennsylvania Saves $64.1 Million With Oracle E-Business Suite
- Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania is one of the world's leading academic institutions and the first university founded in the U.S. As a major research institution with 12 schools and 20 business units, Penn has complex procurement requirements. The university wanted to reduce costs while gaining the...
- Tags: University Of Pennsylvania, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Procurement, 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
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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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- 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
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- 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
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- UK Military Procurement Agency to Power Top Security Network With 3Com Switch 8800 Terabit Solution
- With an annual budget of £6 billion, the UK Defence Procurement Agency DPA manages procurements for roughly 700 projects, including the Typhoon combat aircraft, the Skynet satellite communications, and the Future Carrier - a new, larger class of aircraft carrier. DPA wanted a single vendor for core and edge switching...
- Tags: Security, 3Com Corp., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Aerospace & Defense, Business Operations, Manufacturing
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Bank of Montreal Re-Engineers Its Purchasing Methodologies and Reduces Overall Procurement Costs Using Oracle
- By choosing Oracle's Procure to Pay solution, Bank of Montreal is now able to re-engineer the methodologies used to purchase US $1.2 billion worth of goods and services each year and significantly reduce procurement spending. Oracle iProcurement allows Bank of Montreal to standardize purchase processes, eliminate unnecessary approvals or redundant...
- Tags: Bank, Oracle Corp., Procurement, Oracle iProcurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Services, Business Operations
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- Japanese Electronics Firm Finds "Kaizen" With Uniface Flow
- Victor Service & Engineering Co., LTD. VSE implemented Uniface Flow to automate material procurement and invoicing processes for the multimedia services organization. Uniface Flow provided VSE a competitive edge and more profitability, while reducing service associates' workloads. While procurement and invoicing processes for maintenance and repair projects were clearly and...
- Tags: Multimedia, Procurement, Compuware Corp., Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
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- Cost-Effective IT Platform Is a Welcome Guest at Upscale and Luxury Hotel Chain
- Wyndham International is a hotel chain renowned for offering personalized service and sumptuous amenities at its primarily upscale and luxury hotels. In 2000, Wyndham hired a new CTO whose arrival coincided with a decision to upgrade a large quantity of aging hardware. At the time, Wyndham purchased its systems from...
- Tags: RFP, Dell Computer Corp., CTO, Information Technology, Procurement, IT Platform, Wyndham International, Purchasing & Procurement, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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