purchasing
RSS purchasingMeasuring Misalignment: Purchasing Power Parity and East Asian Currencies in the 1990s
White Paper The concept of purchasing power parity (PPP) is used to evaluate whether eight East Asian currencies were overvalued on the eve of the 1997 crises. The Johansen and Horvath-Watson cointegration test procedures are applied to bilateral and... [24 Feb 2004]
Auto Manufacturer Reduces Time Spent on Budgeting, Purchasing, and Business Analysis
White Paper Furthermore, the system did not allow electronic purchasing, which would make tighter invoice approvals possible. Several months after starting up operations in 1999, Kia Canada Inc.found itself without support for its business management software. [19 Feb 2008]
Purchasing Software Intensive Systems Using Quality Targets
White Paper DoD Airlie guidelines on purchasing software intensive systems lists “16 Critical Software Practices for Performance Based Management”. This practice is becoming fundamental in both Defense and commercial purchasing organizations, especially... [20 Apr 2004]
Purchasing Site Takes Off Quickly at Mercury With the .NET Framework and Extreme Programming
White Paper Mercury Companies, a real estate financial services holding company, had an existing corporate purchasing Web site that was unreliable, hard to use, and poorly regarded by users. Mercury built a new Web-based purchasing portal using Microsoft... [11 Jun 2004]
Purchasing and Accounts Payable Integration
White Paper The intent of this white paper is to describe the functionality found in the Solomon IV purchasing and accounts payable integration. This document will contain both detailed explanations of how things work as well as detailed examples of key... [24 Feb 2004]
Specialty Jewelry Chain Boosts Profits by Linking POS, Stock, Purchasing, Accounting
White Paper Perhaps, most important, purchasing is now based on exact knowledge of which products sell best at each store, so display cases are appropriately stocked and "Negative inventory" cannot occur. Managing the details and intricacies of a multistate... [19 Feb 2008]
Ubiquitous Commerce: Autonomous Purchasing Object
White Paper This paper talks about Autonomous Purchasing Object prototype. The Autonomous Purchasing Object prototype is a striking example of what Accenture calls Silent Commerce. Based on microchips embedded in objects, the doll is just one of a new breed of... [13 May 2004]
Aggregated Purchasing - A Clean Energy Strategy
White Paper Both federal and state governments typically have purchasing agencies that are responsible for procuring a variety of goods and services for member agencies. As large electricity purchasers, state and federal governments are well positioned to... [08 Jun 2005]
Nationwide Building Society to Make Significant Savings Through Improved Purchasing Processes
White Paper 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... [30 Apr 2008]
Saks Automates Purchasing With Advanced e-Procurement System
White Paper Saks wanted to automate its manual system with an Internet-based e-procurement system that would simplify purchasing, facilitate new business processes and save money. Saks Incorporated purchases more than $900 million in non-retail merchandise... [29 Apr 2005]
Finansbank Restructures Purchasing Process by Establishing Single Department
White Paper The challenge was to establish a single purchasing cycle, integrate all purchasing activities across branches and regions, and speed approval cycles and reduce cost, while improving the efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of purchasing... [30 Jun 2007]
e-Commerce and e-Procurement/Purchasing
White Paper This paper defines E-Commerce and E-Procurement/Purchasing as well as some related terms, provides statistics on their use, explains key roadblocks to implementation of E-Procurement/Purchasing systems, and provides recommendations for the... [14 Jul 2005]
Forest of Dean District Council: A Sustainable Purchasing Guide
White Paper In 2002, the strategy was revised and the updated version highlighted the need for the council, to review its purchasing activities, and thereby reduce its negative impact on the environment. Subsequently, a task was identified: to produce a green... [28 Apr 2005]
Federal, State, and Local Issue Alert: Cooperative Purchasing
White Paper Cooperative purchasing gives state and local governments another option for IT procurement. The E-Government Act of 2002 allows state and local governments to purchase information technology (IT) products using U.S. [30 Aug 2005]
Beauty and the Beast: BI Meets Real World Purchasing
White Paper Software for purchasing departments has tended to confine itself to automation and communication. What's brand new on the scene is operationally embedded business intelligence applications for purchasing that are lightweight, easily implemented and... [27 Jul 2005]
