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Nationwide Building Society to Make Significant Savings Through Improved Purchasing Processes

whitepaper Nationwide Building Society wanted to leverage best-practice financial and purchasing management to gain real-time monitoring and control, and drive accountability as well as realize efficiencies by streamlining, standardizing, and automating key...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Lighting Manufacturer Surya Roshni Streamlines Supply Chain With Bright Results

whitepaper Surya Roshni wanted to improve integration between purchasing, manufacturing, and distribution departments and store company-wide data in one location. New Delhi-based Surya Roshni Ltd is India's second-largest manufacturer of lighting products.

Tags: supply chain management

[11 May 2008]

Why Buy HP Memory for HP Workstations?

whitepaper This paper shows why purchasing HP memory for HP Workstations is a good business decision. In the open market, there is a wide variety of available memory, much of it at budget prices. What is the advantage of buying memory and memory upgrades from...

Tags: workstations

[11 May 2008]

Korea's Leading Shipbuilding Firm Enhances "Engineered-to-Order" Model With SAP NetWeaver

whitepaper The company's production process is "Engineered-to-order", which means the volume (or production planning and execution) data and material (like purchasing and inventory) data changes depending on what has been engineered to fit customer's needs.

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

ParkwayHealth Singapore Reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 40%

whitepaper ParkwayHealth required a central IT system to manage financials, materials purchasing, and human resources across the three hospitals. In 2004, ParkwayHealth decided it was time for a complete technology refresh.

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

IT and the environment; a new item on the CIO's agenda?

whitepaper How do these changes affect the purchasing, operation and disposal of technology assets within businesses today? It's difficult to open a newspaper, turn on the TV or browse the internet right now without stumbling across commentary, opinion and...

Tags: data center, assets, departments, affect

[11 May 2008]

COTS Product Integration: An Architectural Approach - Tips to Maximize the Purchase and Integration of COTS

whitepaper Purchasing and integrating a Commercial Off-The-Shelf software (COTS) product can provide substantial benefits to one's development project. It can also lead to massive cost overruns, user dissatisfaction, and even project cancellation.

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Employees Streamline Sales With Enhanced Access to Business Data With Microsoft

whitepaper But for the business to remain competitive, its employees need improved access to information such as customer details, purchasing, sales, and inventory. Sales managers at Netherlands-based fencing and security company Heras deliver highly...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Intelligent Document Automation to Increase Purchasing Process Efficiency with ERP Systems

whitepaper For many organizations running packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and other vendors, purchasing processes still involve conventional mail or fax delivery of purchase orders and...

Tags: erp

[30 Apr 2008]

Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News Aviva's David King said the organisation would "provide an industry standard to allow the purchasing community to have confidence [in the products they are buying]". The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut...

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 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. Who controls printing and imaging? Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window.

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08

Round-Up According to Gartner, end users' preferences will soon account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up.

Tags: microsoft, windows, google, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini

News Under the terms of the new contracts Capgemini will retain responsibility for managing the mainframe computers that support core steel production, supply chain, stockholding, purchasing, sales ordering and invoicing at Corus' main UK manufacturing...

Tags: capgemini, corus

[17 Apr 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News End users' preferences will account for up to 50 per cent of all purchasing decisions relating to hardware, software and services within the enterprise, Martin Gutberlet, research vice president at Gartner, said last week.

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…

Comment Place I worked at - the 'Purchasing/Contracts/Legal' departments took a cheap contract, made cheaper as they accepted a condition that the 'environment' would not be changed over the life of the project.

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Fax Purchasing Decision: Fax Server or Fax Service?

whitepaper Looking for the fax delivery solution that's right for your business? This Davidson Consulting white paper compares and contrasts fax servers to fax services to help you decide which delivery method is best suited to the current and changing needs...

Tags: communications software, delivery, fax, method

[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. This white paper examines e-procurement solutions and how they can improve purchasing process.

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

[10 Apr 2008]

Tendering in NSW Health

whitepaper Prior to the state-wide implementation of Electronic Tendering in Health, the NSW Health Peak Purchasing Council [HPPC] as part of its supporting role, assisted Area Health Services in ensuring that the tender process was properly structured and...

Tags: procurement and sourcing, health, documentation, standardised

[10 Apr 2008]

Making the Sale: Gaining Competitive Advantage by Integrating the Web With Traditional Sales Channels

whitepaper "Attend this FREE educational Web seminar replay to learn how Siebel Interactive Selling 7 can help you to: Reduce sales costs by helping customers move from offline purchasing processes conducted with telesales or field representatives to lower...

Tags: sales - marketing, channels, offline, interactive

[10 Apr 2008]

Administaff Uses VMware ESX Server to Reduce Costs, Server Sprawl

whitepaper They ran a cost comparison of physical machines vs.virtual machines and determined there would be an immediate savings of $70,000 on hardware and maintenance costs by purchasing only four physical servers instead of sixteen.

Tags: machines, physical, esx server, administaff

[10 Apr 2008]

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