procurement - purchasing
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]
Automotive Giant Boosts Efficiency
White Paper The company needed to streamline its procurement processes and consolidate its server infrastructure to help increase productivity, optimize business processes, and avoid wasted hardware resources and unnecessary energy consumption. [09 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]
Top University Builds World-Leading Supercomputer
White Paper The University went out to tender for a new supercomputer, based on an EU procurement framework. University of Cambridge's existing supercomputer was struggling to keep up with the demands being placed on it. [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]
BEA Systems Case Study: Lufthansa Technik Logistic (LTL)
White Paper Lufthansa Technik Logistik (LTL) is a leading player in the time-critical procurement of urgently required spare parts for the aviation sector. To meet the demands on time, a large number of applications had to be brought together on a uniform IT... [05 Jul 2008]
Accenture Helps Exostar Launch an eMarketplace for the Aerospace and Defense Industry
White Paper Recognizing that Internet-based transactions are the future of A&D procurement, BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon joined forces to form a new, virtual company that would offer unprecedented efficiencies and help constituents... [03 Jul 2008]
Eircell - Swift Assessment and Evaluation of Potential GPRS Providers
White Paper PA's skills base meant swift alignment to the assessment task, a systems perspective, major input to product and procurement strategy and risk minimisation - a complete technical and commercial evaluation in record time. [03 Jul 2008]
£3bn gov't IT contracts up for grabs
News The public sector procurement body, the Office of Government Commerce, has also recently announced a new version of the free IT model contract to deliver better value-for-money for complex procurements. [01 Jul 2008]
Dell Procurement Finance Gains Insights With SQL Server 2005 Data Mart
White Paper The Procurement Finance group at Dell is responsible for providing the Global Accounts Payable Group and management with the tools to track key performance indicators to ensure business objectives are being achieved according to plan. [01 Jul 2008]
Dell Procurement Finance Gains Insights With SQL Server 2005 Data Mart
White Paper The Procurement Finance group at Dell is responsible for providing the Global Accounts Payable Group and management with the tools to track key performance indicators to ensure business objectives are being achieved according to plan. [01 Jul 2008]
Solvay Pharmaceuticals Saves $1.5 Million and Meets Validation Requirements with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
White Paper VMware infrastructure increased scalability and performance in the datacenter for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, saving more than $1.5 million in hardware costs, reducing paperwork and server procurement costs, and decreasing server deployment time from... [30 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News Read's responsibilities include examining the standardisation and simplification of business processes, improving government's success rate on the delivery of big IT projects, ensuring compatibility between national systems and improving hardware... [23 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News Candidates also need experience of "the full project and software lifecycle" - using "recognised design methods, modelling processes and tools" - including software selection, procurement processes and systems integration, the job ad states. [23 Jun 2008]
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