Resources

The Phantom Menace - The meltdown may have been averted but the crisis remains
The financial crisis is rapidly moving from Wall Street to Main Street as most companies’ results are reflecting squeezed operating margins. Net margins are further impacted by tighter, more expensive access to credit. This paper provides CEOs, CFOs and Procurement leaders alternative short and long-term prescriptions that their procurement organizations can utilize to achieve cost reductions, reduce margin compression and release cash from operations while implementing procurement related best- practices that will separate market leaders from laggards when the market eventually recovers.
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Overcoming fear, uncertainty and doubts (FUDs) about SaaS Procurement Solutions
Making a smart investment decision while acquiring sourcing and procurement technologies is never easy. There are a lot of fears, uncertainty and doubts (FUDS) about multiple issues, some needlessly planted by vendors themselves. In this paper we focus our attention on a critical issue i.e. the choice of a software delivery platform that works best for you: Software delivered as a service or on-premise solution. Should you place your bets on SaaS? Find out for yourself what works now.
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MRO-Procurement – A Primer for Success
MRO is, by its very nature, a complex mix of products and services. The procurement of MRO is further complicated by user preference (of parts and suppliers) and emotional attachment to their incumbents. In this white paper you will learn how a successful MRO sourcing process can deliver big dividends for the organization. Why it is a well worth the effort to invest the time and effort to “do it right”.
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Aberdeen Group Report: Spend Intelligence Benchmark Report
As corporate procurement organizations are charged with securing products and services of the best quality and the lowest possible cost, their enterprises are counting on them to be much more than just order takers. To accomplish that, procurement organizations must develop capabilities in spend intelligence. This takes spend analysis a step further, allowing the enterprise to take what it knows from the spend data it has gathered and use it to act on forward-thinking initiatives. In other words, spend intelligence provides actionable information.
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Aberdeen Group Report: The Procurement Outsourcing Benchmark Report
The pressures of globalization, regulation, and cost control have widened the door for the outsourcing of procurement functions over the last several years. To answer those challenges, enterprises have acted to improve their procurement organizations skills and many wont hesitate to look outside for a third party to perform the procurement-related functions that cant be done - or at least done well - in house.
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