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Whitepaper: How to Break the Excel Habit in Sourcing
For those in sourcing and procurement roles, it may come as a surprise that 85% of sourcing personnel still turn to spreadsheets to collect and/or analyze supplier response data for RFIs and RFPs. It’s time to take a serious look into why eSourcing adoption isn’t stronger, given the investments made and benefits that can be realized. This whitepaper reveals market research findings in this area, identifies root causes, and highlights how a best-in-class eSourcing tool can augment suite solutions to reduce spreadsheet reliance and improve eSourcing adoption and results.
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Attack the Gaps in Your Sourcing Toolkit with an Advanced Sourcing Solution
To achieve the next level of spend under management and cost reductions, leading companies are adopting more advanced, strategic sourcing solutions, like that offered by CombineNet ASAP, to augment their existing technology investments. Click here for more
For those in sourcing and procurement roles, it may come as a surprise that 85% of sourcing personnel still turn to spreadsheets to collect and/or analyze supplier response data for RFIs and RFPs. It’s time to take a serious look into why eSourcing adoption isn’t stronger, given the investments made and benefits that can be realized. This whitepaper reveals market research findings in this area, identifies root causes, and highlights how a best-in-class eSourcing tool can augment suite solutions to reduce spreadsheet reliance and improve eSourcing adoption and results.
Learn More.
Attack the Gaps in Your Sourcing Toolkit with an Advanced Sourcing Solution
To achieve the next level of spend under management and cost reductions, leading companies are adopting more advanced, strategic sourcing solutions, like that offered by CombineNet ASAP, to augment their existing technology investments. Click here for more
Today, the benefits of sourcing from low cost countries and selling into new foreign markets are driving the vast majority of enterprise-class companies to go global. However, many of these companies are still making due with sub-standard global processes and technologies borrowed from domestic organizations.
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In this Webcast, you'll learn what a supply chain control tower entails, the key elements that comprise the control tower and how your supply chain can benefit from the control tower.
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Comprehensive information about global sourcing and procurement strategies, covering software, spending analysis, order management, supplier evaluation and e-Procurement.
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GTM Case Study: How a Fortune 500 CPG Company Saved $12M by Reexamining Its Ocean SpendingHow to Compare Actual Landed CostsNew Hackett Research Forecasts Offshoring of 750,000 More Jobs
Posted 03/27 · 05:19 PM · SCMR Editorial
Corporations in the U.S. and Europe will move an additional 750,000 jobs in IT, finance, and other business services to India and other low-cost geographies by 2016, according to new research from The Hackett Group, Inc.
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Déjà vu all over again
Posted 03/24 · 12:02 PM · SCMR Editorial
Failing to actively manage consultants can have dire consequences for procurement.
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Driving Value Through the Procurement Process
Posted 03/21 · 09:30 AM · SCMR Editorial
APQC released the results of its latest study, Supplier Category Management: Driving Value Through the Procurement Process
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Mexico poses challenge to U.S. West Coast ports
Posted 03/20 · 09:33 AM · SCMR Editorial
More evidence that shippers may be “near shoring” in the future surfaced at a maritime conference in Southern California earlier this month
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Supply chain managers may consider sourcing from Mexico’s seaports
Posted 03/20 · 07:25 AM · SCMR Editorial
More evidence that shippers may be “near shoring” in the future surfaced at a maritime conference in Southern California earlier this month
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Embracing Green in China ... with an NGO Nudge
Posted 03/06 · 06:06 PM · SCMR Editorial
To date, more than 200 corporate giants have explained to the seven-person Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs why their manufacturing facilities or suppliers in China violated the country’s air and water laws. At least 50 companies have taken corrective actions and agreed to IPE-supervised environmental audits of their factories. Here’s why supply chain managers need to pay attention to influential little watchdogs like IPE.
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Spend Analysis: Lessons from the Best-in-Class
Posted 03/06 · 05:02 PM · SCMR Editorial
New research from the Aberdeen Group underscores the criticality of spend analysis to overall spend management. The findings also show, however, that many companies struggle with putting together an effective spend analysis program. The insight and guidelines offered here can help any company advance up the competency ladder toward Best-in-Class—regardless of the starting point.
“Patience and Persistence”
Posted 03/05 · 01:04 PM · SCMR Editorial
Education and adoption are keys to realizing transparent workflows that lead to drawing on agreements with preferred suppliers
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Quality Fade
Posted 03/01 · 08:52 AM · SCMR Editorial
Quality Fade, the process of quality degradation over time, is the single biggest issue in low cost manufacturing countries.
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Supply Chain and Procurement May Not Always Be on the Same Page
Posted 02/28 · 09:28 AM · SCMR Editorial
In a paper presented today by McKinsey & Company analysts, executives are told that on the face of it, a company’s supply chain and procurement functions should have a lot in common.
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