Analyst Reports
The year of the Supplier: Perspectives on Supplier Management 2011
This report examines the crucial set of processes that encompass supplier management by exploring the pressures...
Whitepapers
What Users Want
Procure-to-Pay (P2P) initiatives often flounder with poor user adoption rate. This whitepaper focusses on the key requirements of the end-users, which can help the P2P program managers to design-in a process that will lead to a successful P2P initiative...
Case Studies
Sigma Aldrich: Global Procurement Team Expands Influence with Spend Analysis
A world-leading developer and producer of chemical and biomedical products and services, spread across 40 countries, Sigma-Aldrich dealt with sourcing of extremely sensitive products that limited their flexibility to pursue procurement strategies...
On Demand Webinars
Purchasing technology for the 2016 CPO
Speakers:
Duncan Jones
Vice President,
Principal Analyst,
Forrester Research, Inc.
Will Sheeran
Procurement Director
eBooks 
Knowledge Hub eBooks
| The Path to Supplier Management Excellence, March 2013 | |
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A Good supplier relation is one of the key parameters to achieve supply chain excellence as almost every company is dependent on their suppliers. Suppliers have a direct impact on an organization's product/service quality, competitiveness and also product innovation. A good liaison between the buyer and supplier improves collaboration, thus increasing the efficiency and productivity for the organization. Download this e-book to explore the 3 stages that can be followed for effective supplier management. |
| The P2P playbook: Planning for eProcurement Success: October, 2012 | |
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Download this eBook to discover key success factors every organization - especially first time P2P adopters should consider when planning a new P2P initiative. This eBook provides insights into five key success factors viz:
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| 5 Lessons for Midsized companies to Drive Procurement Performance: August, 2012 | |
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It is rarely, if ever, sufficient to simply negotiate favorable contracts with suppliers, inform people the contracts exist and expect them to comply as a means for ensuring that negotiated cost savings get realized. As a rapidly growing midsized organization, there is a lot more that needs to be done to achieve best-in-class maturity in procurement and supply management processes that large enterprises are evolving.
Download our new eBook Small Teams, Big Dreams - 5 Lessons for Midsized companies to Drive Procurement Performance to learn practical suggestions on how midsized companies can also implement these best practices to increase their procurement team's contribution to business performance. Learn:
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| 12 Steps to Strategic Sourcing: March, 2012 | |
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Procurement today has an added responsibility of delivering savings to the bottom line. Strategic sourcing offers procurement professionals significant opportunity in improving the bottom line. This ebook titled '12 Steps to Strategic Sourcing', charts a process for getting started with your strategic sourcing initiatives right from:
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| 6 imperatives for CPOs: Intent on driving business performance improvement: January, 2012 | |
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Becoming a well-equipped procurement and supply management organization means recruiting the right talent into procurement, adopting proven best processes and using technology
strategically to: overcome human limitations for processing information, remove physical obstacles to collaboration, ensure efficiency and maximize return on investment in procurement. This e-book provides an outline on the 6 key areas CPOs need to focus to ensure efficiency & maximum return on investment from their procurement initiatives viz:
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| Leveraging technology to drive business performance: November, 2011 | |
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Procurement over the years has evolved from merely being transactional (being cost focused) to being strategic in its approach.This ebook provides an overview of the 5 key strategic imperatives focused by high performing
businesses to excel in today's competitive business environment. These imperatives are:
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| The Path to Procurement Excellence | |
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What sets mature, highly successful strategic sourcing organizations apart? Which processes matter most for strategic sourcing and procurement? How important is process maturity? How can procurement continuously make positive contributions to corporate performance? This eBOOK, with support from a new joint study by Purchasing magazine and ZYCUS, sets out to answer these questions. It focuses in detail on the practices and processes that, when embedded, appear to differentiate high performance organizations. The study tested 65 specific practices and processes often associated with strategic-sourcing maturity and success. It also identifies practices that, while still emergent in high performance procurement groups, are consistently associated with rising performance levels over time. It focuses in detail on the practices and processes that, when embedded, appear to differentiate high performance organizations. The study tested 65 specific practices and processes often associated with strategic-sourcing maturity and success. It also identifies practices that, while still emergent in high performance procurement groups, are consistently associated with rising performance levels over time. There is something here for everybody. Learn how some of the most advanced strategic sourcing and procurement management organizations are preparing to meet the challenges of the coming decade... |
