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- Understand your role in procurement management
- The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) from the project Management Institute PMI describes six processes within the Project Procurement Management knowledge areas. Procurement refers to the aspects of project management related to obtaining goods and services from outside companies. It does not refer to other internal...
- Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Tom Mochal, procurement, Purchasing Department, project management, team, procurement management, Project Management Newsletter, Knowledge, Project Manager, Bottom Line, Team Management, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Technical articles 2007-05-07
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- Finansbank Restructures Purchasing Process by Establishing Single Department
- Founded in 1987, Turkish retail bank Finansbank will be operating with 330 branches in Turkey by the end of March 2007. It has the biggest investment and overseas network of any Turkish bank. Finansbank offers financial services for both commercial and retail banking consumers and also offers a network of...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Online Banking, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Asset Management, Financial Services, Networking, Internet, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Case Study: eProcurement in the NHS - NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency
- The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency works with around 400 NHS trusts and health authorities and manages 3,000 national purchasing contracts, influencing around half of the £7 billion spent in the NHS on purchasing goods and services in the health service in the UK. More than 100 NHS organisations and...
- Tags: Agency, E-procurement, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Department of Primary Industries Achieves 70% Savings Per Purchasing Transaction
- The Department of Primary Industries DPI wanted to provide an automated procurement system to streamline operations across four state government bodies in more than 100 locations across Victoria and create a more cost-effective financials system to better manage the requirements of management and employees. The challenge was to facilitate online...
- Tags: DPI, Oracle Corp., Industry, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Sr. Office Administrative Assistant
- How do I show justification to purchase a new scanner for our department. The one that we had for our group has broken and in order to purchase another one I will need to show justification. There are 7 people in the group and I scan about 10...
- Tags: Scanners, Microsoft Office, karen.lemelle@..., scanner, justification
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- TechRepublic's IT Hardware and Software Purchasing Policy
- Your IT Budget is tight. You want to get the most bang for your IT buck. That's where the IT Hardware and Software Purchasing Policy can help. This policy's purpose is to help properly set the boundaries for purchasing new hardware and software. It includes a policy you can...
- Tags: Software, Risk Assessment, TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Policy, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management
- Download resources 2006-07-11
- Multimedia Company Streamlines Procurement
- T-Systems MultiMedia Solutions (T-Systems MMS) of Dresden is the leading Internet and multimedia enterprise in Germany. With the Next Generation Purchasing Desktop NGPD, T-Systems MMS has substantially improved the user friendliness of IT-systems for e-procurement and e-sourcing. Users can now place orders directly through their familiar Microsoft Office environment. Time-consuming...
- Tags: Multimedia, T-Systems, MMS, Procurement, Microsoft Corp., Next Generation Purchasing Desktop, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Purchasing & Procurement, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Telecommunications Giant Belgacom Opts for SAP to Optimize All Purchasing Processes
- In spite of its success and an annual turnover of some £5.22 billion, Belgacom NV needed to streamline its purchasing processes. For certain items, the administrative and logistics costs were often higher than the purchase cost. This leading Belgian telecommunications company chose SAP Enterprise Buyer - a key application within...
- Tags: Logistics, SAP AG, Telecommunications, Belgacom, Supply Chain, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Cuts Costs With Oracle-Based Shared Financial Management Platform
- Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust provides healthcare services for more than 1 million people in Leicestershire and Rutland. The challenge was to cut costs by building an integrated financial management and purchasing platform shared among six neighboring Trusts, gain real-time financial control, source best-value suppliers, eliminate unauthorized purchasing, and reduce stock,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Partnership, Financial, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies
- Looking for purchasing software recommdendations
- I'm in the early stages of researching purchasing management software for my company to help simplify workflow and reduce paper. The market is positively saturated with products in this niche, so I'm looking for recommendations. Here's a bit about my company and the requirements:-Mid-size (225 employees, $23M in...
- Tags: Looking, Need, purchasing, kvnmklly@..., kkelly@..., software
- Discussion threads 2005-08-27
- Borough of Lewisham Leverages Purchasing Power With Online Marketplaces
- Lewisham Council wanted to leverage purchasing power by using online marketplaces to gain access to the broadest possible range of goods and services and cut administration costs, reduce off-contract spend, and enforce process controls while maximizing spend with Small-and-Medium-sized Businesses SMBs, local companies, ethnic minority businesses, and third-sector organizations in...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- The Essential Elements of Business Critical Solutions and How to Gain Funding for Them
- Put simply, without Business Critical Systems BCS, especially the appropriate server and storage technologies, most modern businesses would find it hard to function properly let alone compete in an ever more challenging business environment. There's a huge choice in BCS right now but it's not that difficult to make the...
- Tags: Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- The Winternals
- Where do you get it now?Now that winternals has been bought by Microsoft, where do you get it?We just bought it....JP, We bought it last December. I called (512) 330-9130 and got the info for our purchasing department. I *think* I was talking to a Winternals employee who was...
- Tags: JPPEAVEY, Winternals
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Microsoft Access Reports - Separating Information
- I have created a report where specific information is ordered by department and I'm trying to get each department on a separate page in the report but I get the accounting department on one page and part of the sales department, and so on. I'd like to know how to...
- Tags: RPosten@..., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Access
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Ariba Spend Management for the Public Sector
- Ariba Spend Management enables public sector users to automate and expedite all their sourcing and procurement activities. Integration of analysis, sourcing, supplier selection, contract management, purchasing, and invoicing procedures into a spend management system makes the entire purchasing process more efficient. Whether sourcing or purchasing items such as information technology,...
- Tags: Sourcing, Ariba Inc., Ariba Spend Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2004-12-29
- Counterpoint: Five reasons to decentralize your IT department
- See the top five benefits for decentralizing your IT department, and the trade-offs you have to make if you decentralize, in this episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives. Also see: Five reasons to centralize your IT department
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Department, Strategy, Management, sanity savers
- Videos 2008-07-16
- Create an IT Service Department/Section
- I am the IT Manager for a company and I am considering starting an section or department to do IT Service. My target would be to support outside clients/customers. I would like some thoughts and ideas on the best way to form a department within the IT
- Tags: Cweb, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- mySAP Supplier Relationship Management Helps New Zealand's Phone Company Track Spares and Returns, Implement Online Purchasing
- In 2000, Telecom New Zealand began a major supply-management review and found the company could be saving time and money in its management of spare-parts tracking and low-value goods purchasing. In 2002, Telecom brought in the mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM solution, and integrated it with its existing SAP...
- Tags: mySAP, Supplier Relationship Management, Phone, SAP AG, mySAP SRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Software, Business Operations, Marketing
- Case studies
- Coventry City Council Cuts Overhead by US$414,000 by Migrating 24% of Spend to Online Purchasing
- Coventry City Council provides local government services to 306,000 residents and businesses in the United Kingdom's eleventh largest city. Coventry City Council wanted to streamline and e-enable financial and purchasing processes following a government Best Value Review assessment and improve budget management and gain advance visibility of spending by introducing...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Council, Coventry City Council, Channel Management, Government, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Is your IT department scalable?
- IT training importantThe main problems is those who frame organization charts dont consider IT as a department. As a result no training is given to IT personell and then when IT demands grow they setup a department with someone without formal training who will always implement archaic projects, hire...
- Tags: wkabula@..., information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
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