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Travel and Procurement: The Convergence

whitepaper 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.

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

Emin Leydier Manages a 50% Increase in Production Without Increasing Administrative Workforce

whitepaper Emin Leydier wanted to install a management system to support the company's strategic development including a new plant and new machinery and improve the integration of financial, commercial, transportation, and procurement management processes.

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Tibet Tianlu Achieves End-to-End Control of Financial and Human Resources Operations

whitepaper Senior managers did not have a complete view of the organization or insight into project, human resources, inventory, and procurement costs. Its rapidly expanding portfolio of work prompted Tibet Tianlu to reconsider the way it managed its business.

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Solvay Pharmaceuticals Saves $1.5 Million and Meets Validation Requirements with VMware Virtual Infrastructure

whitepaper 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...

Tags: infrastructure management

[07 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open-source drivers for...

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

Intelligent Document Automation to Increase Purchasing Process Efficiency with ERP Systems

whitepaper These manual processes limit the potential to achieve efficiency objectives in crucial areas such as procurement, supply chain management, inventory control, materials management, sourcing, order fulfillment administration, and overall business...

Tags: erp

[30 Apr 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News The new deal runs until 2013 and covers all the council's IT and telecoms infrastructure and networks, 4,000 desktop PCs and key business applications, including finance, procurement and customer service.

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white

Comment Uncoordinated procurement is not only time consuming but also costly because it reduces purchasing power and complicates service control. First, the management of the printing environment is often split between IT, procurement, facilities...

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08

Round-Up The first was the user preferences influencing kit procurement decisions. Just as the democratisation of content is part of the web 2.0 revolution, the democratisation of the IT procurement strategy is part of the brave new world of IT manager 2.0.

Tags: microsoft, windows, google, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News Simon Crawshaw, IT and procurement director, Bourne Leisure Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks.

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Southampton City Council Streamlines Procurement Process and Meets Service Level Agreements With Infra Software

whitepaper The change management solution is used for all computer procurement, to enable staff to place orders for new equipment and track the delivery process through to installation. Southampton City Council has more than 9000 staff providing services to...

Tags: service level management, management solution, city, delivery

[10 Apr 2008]

Korea's Move to e-procurement

whitepaper 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.

Tags: e-procurement, procurement, country, business process

[10 Apr 2008]

Technological Innovation in Public Sector Reform: Chile's Public Procurement e-system

whitepaper Chile's recently reformed public procurement system shows how information technology can make government more efficient, transparent, and accountable - benefiting citizens, businesses, and public agencies.

Tags: procurement and sourcing, sector, citizens, economic

[10 Apr 2008]

Chile's Government Procurement E-System

whitepaper One area of reform in which the UTIC was particularly successful was in pushing forward a comprehensive reform of its procurement system. Chile's experience with e-procurement has made business opportunities with the Chilean Government more...

Tags: procurement and sourcing, firms, procurement, opportunities

[10 Apr 2008]

mySAP Mobile Business - Mobile Procurement

whitepaper This paper discusses about the mobile procurement capabilities of mySAP Mobile Business, which empowers you and your workforce by placing streamlined buying functionality in the palm of your hand. It helps you make the most of your valuable time...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, mobile business, return, mysap

[10 Apr 2008]

What You Need to Implement an E-Procurement Solution

whitepaper Procurement is the purchasing of product components, standard raw materials, customized supplies, and other goods needed to conduct business operation. E-procurement applies Internet technologies to the buying process in the supply chain.

Tags: e-procurement, purchasing, cash, supply chain

[10 Apr 2008]

Strategic Electronic Government Procurement - Strategic Overview: An Introduction for Executives

whitepaper Developing countries have become increasingly aware of the strategic importance of new technologies and are continuing to prepare programmes to promote their roll-out and take-up. The possibilities for leap-frogging development, strengthening...

Tags: procurement and sourcing, drivers, strategic, developments

[10 Apr 2008]

Flight Centre

whitepaper Travel specialist Flight Centre deployed Dell's Premier Pages portal to manage procurement and logistics as well as provide staff with instant access to helpdesk and technical support information. Flight Centre staff now place and track orders...

Tags: portals, pages, procurement, portal

[10 Apr 2008]

Robbins-Gioia Helps Verizon Federal Deliver Telecommunications Solutions in the National Capital Region

whitepaper When it was time for Verizon Federal, Inc.to rebid its contract with the federal government to provide telecommunications services to customers within the national capital region, Verizon knew it needed help to compete during the open procurement...

Tags: database management, federal, gioia, robbins gioia

[10 Apr 2008]

Accelerating SAP ITS v4.6D and SAP EBP v6.10 with Cisco Application and Content Networking System (ACNS) Software

whitepaper This white paper describes the benefits of using Cisco Application and Content Networking System (ACNS) Software to accelerate SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS) v 4.6D/ Activity Management System (AMS) and SAP Enterprise Buyer Professional...

Tags: monitoring systems, management system, public sector, procurement

[10 Apr 2008]

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