e-procurement
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News McKibbin has secured a place on British Airways' IT Graduate Programme in Newcastle, to start this September; while Broom will take up a post with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, working within the procurement department. [24 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study Ramsey said: "With the procurement of Postini and the ability of [Google] to utilise the Postini infrastructure to deliver these services, we felt comfortable that those services were as good as, if not better than, some of the services we had... [10 Jul 2008]
DK Corporation Improves Productivity by 12%, Cuts Procurement Time by More Than 50%
White Paper DK Corporation wanted to integrate information, improve efficiency, streamline procurement, and maintain tight financial control. The company selected a range of Oracle Financials and Oracle Supply Chain Management modules to manage accounting... [08 Jul 2008]
GENBAND Combines Two Business Units With Scalable ERP Implementation Approach
White Paper GENBAND worked with DAZ Systems to leverage Oracle Business Accelerators to implement Oracle E-Business Suite applications for financials, order management, procurement, and expenses in just four months as well as used Oracle Business Accelerators... [08 Jul 2008]
Self-Service Procurement in a Strategic Sourcing Context
White Paper McKesson is undergoing an unprecedented consolidation and rationalization of indirect procurement, improving its strategic sourcing process and integrating suppliers with its e-procurement platform. This webcast explains how to increase supplier... [13 Jun 2008]
Durham health consortium outsources e-procurement
News The service will be hosted by the e-procurement specialist supplier Wax Digital. The consortium's incumbent e-procurement system was maintained in-house. A consortium of health trusts and HM Prisons within County Durham has outsourced its shared... [22 May 2008]
Royal Mail on target to save £300m with SAP
News Central to the project is SAP supplier relationship management (SRM) software and its E-Procurement module. The rollout of the e-procurement technology has seen the introduction of small chunks, each of which has been well received, according to... [22 May 2008]
Citelum Cuts Its Period-End Closure Times by 66% to Meet Shareholder Requirements
White Paper Citelum deployed Oracle E-Business Suite, Dalkia's standard management application, at Citelum head office for accounts, purchases, e-procurement and sales and replaced an aging accounting program and Excel-based processes. [21 May 2008]
Todini Costruzioni Generali Aligns Industrial Accounting and General Accounting to Expand Insight
White Paper Todini Costruzioni Generali deployed Oracle E-Business Suite applications for financial, procurement and project management to create an integrated system that extends visibility and accountability and aligned industrial accounting and general... [21 May 2008]
Shanghai Hitachi Reduces Inventory 75%, Cuts Procurement Costs 70%, and Increases Efficiency 70%
White Paper After a thorough examination of all the major ERP systems on the market at that time, considering the technical and service strengths of each vendor, Shanghai Hitachi chose Oracle E-Business Suite in February, 1996. [16 May 2008]
Travel and Procurement: The Convergence
White Paper Travel and procurement philosophies that best-in-class companies utilize. Benefits of an integrated organizational travel and procurement process. Steps to successfully integrate travel and procurement. [08 May 2008]
Tibet Tianlu Achieves End-to-End Control of Financial and Human Resources Operations
White Paper Senior managers did not have a complete view of the organization or insight into project, human resources, inventory, and procurement costs. In 2007, the company implemented a new business management system based on Oracle E-Business Suite. [30 Apr 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News Simon Crawshaw, IT and procurement director, Bourne Leisure E is for Extradition Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. [17 Apr 2008]
Korea's Move to e-procurement
White Paper In 1997 the Korean government began reforming its notoriously complicated, nontransparent, corrupt public procurement system, introducing e-procurement to exploit the country's well-developed information and communications infrastructure. [10 Apr 2008]
Chile's Government Procurement E-System
White Paper Chile's experience with e-procurement has made business opportunities with the Chilean Government more transparent, reduced firms' transaction costs, increased opportunities for feedback and cooperation between firms and public agencies, and... [10 Apr 2008]
