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Financial Perspective of Purchasing Decisions |
This study investigated methods used by purchasers in evaluating
suppliers and the basis for justifying purchasing decisions at Volvo
Car Corporation from a financial standpoint. Pdf-file available for
download. 2003 |
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Avoiding the Procurement Rabbit Hole |
Procurement leaders have worked hard to build functional
excellence. But to safeguard and enhance their status, they now
need to take a broader view. |
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Buying Smart: Blueprint for Action |
A report outlining innovative procurement strategies employed by
state governments in the acquisition of information technology
commodities. |
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Crafting a Coherent Purchasing Strategy |
Businesses confront several options for handling online procurement
— and choosing the right one can turn a traditionally low-value
function into a strategic advantage. |
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Driving Down the Cost of Raw Materials |
A four-pronged approach to managing input steel prices and commodity
purchases. |
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Follow the Procurement Leaders: Seven Ways to Lasting Results |
A.T. Kearney's 2011 Assessment of Excellence in Procurement Study.
It's not only volatility in commodities but also dramatically new
ways of working that are creating challenges. |
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Getting Creative: Efficient Sourcing in Marketing |
Marketing provides a tangible opportunity for cost savings, but few
companies have found a way to increase the function's purchasing
efficiency. To gain the maximum benefit to their bottom lines and
marketing efforts, companies will have to ensure that marketing and
procurement departments collaborate to an unprecedented degree. |
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IT
Procurement |
The successful acquisition of products and services. This report
discusses issues and concerns that should be addressed when making
technical product and services purchases. Pdf file |
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Key
Supply Strategies for Tomorrow |
Perspectives on the Future of Purchasing and Supply. Over time
supply management will be asked to deliver more while facing new and
evolving challenges. 2007 |
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Make or Buy: Three Pillars of Sound Decision Making |
This Perspective explores the dynamics of make-or-buy decisions and
presents a framework to help companies make the right decisions. The
framework is built on three key pillars — business strategy, risks,
and economic factors. 2011 |
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Measures |
A List of Sample Procurement/Purchasing Performance Measures |
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Procurement's Future: Outsourcing? |
Organizations must uniquely assess outsourcing viability for
strategic, commodity, and services procurement and management |
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Purchasing Performance Excellence: Results from Arthur D. Little's
Benchmarking Study |
To reduce costs, many companies are relocating activities or
outsourcing pieces of their value chain, making them ever more
dependent on the performance of their purchasing organisation.
Arthur D. Little's benchmarking study "Purchasing Performance
Excellence 2006" provides insights about how best-in-class
purchasing organisations in a broad range of industries are capable
of creating tremendous value for their stakeholders. pdf-file 2.2
MB, 2006 |
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Purchasing power: finding quick cash and building long-term
capabilities |
Companies can take a more effective, fact-based and strategic
approach to purchasing while also achieving quick savings. |
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Saving Procurement from Itself |
It’s time for chief procurement officers to stop relying solely on
functional depth and start increasing functional breadth. 2007 |
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Single-Source Vendor |
How to turn an excellent decision into a disaster - an article in
discussion form. |
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State Procurement: |
Strategic Positioning for the 21st Century |
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Strategic Sourcing for Senior Executives |
As companies move from being manufacturers to assemblers, CEOs and
CFOs need to consider how changes in cost structure move earnings
per share |
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Supplier Selection Process in Emerging Markets |
The Case Study of Volvo Bus Corporation in China. Abstract; pdf-file
available for download. 2005 |
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The
Purchasing Chessboard - Buying in a seller's market |
In a seller's market, buyers must adopt new tools and strategies to
compete effectively on a new playing field. |
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The
Route to Better Procurement |
Improvements in purchasing systems transcend cost savings, and
companies are seeing the benefits extend to every corner of the
business. 2006 |
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Time to Tell Your CPOs to Collaborate with Suppliers |
How to create value by collaborating inside and outside the
organization. Today, reducing costs is no longer enough. Companies
want value, and they want their chief procurement officers (CPOs) to
deliver it. |
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Why
Senior Executives Should Care About Sourcing |
Most companies are nowhere near the sourcing excellence frontier. In
any given industry, the average company achieves 2-3% purchasing
improvement per year, when the leaders achieve many times that
level. Pdf-file |
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Be
'E-Sourceful' To Make Wise Buys |
Strategic-sourcing services can help your company streamline the
purchasing process and improve the bottom line. |
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Changing Shapes of Supply Chains |
How the Internet Could Lead to a More Integrated Procurement
Function. Pdf-file |
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E-Procurement Explosion |
Expected to reach $3 trillion in transactions by 2003, online
purchasing is saving millions for savvy manufacturing companies.
Facts and figures on e-procurement. March 2002 |
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E-Procurement Grows Up |
The right e-procurement systems enable companies to reduce materials
costs, slash overhead and improve supplier relationships. |
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Internet Negotiations eSourcing Results: Realizing Rapid Results
using eSourcing Tools |
This study provides a high-level overview of the categories sourced
in the three prior years (2000-2002), and includes results segmented
by geographic region. In-depth analyses of select direct and
indirect category results provide insights into savings differential
for the regions compared, in this case Europe, North America, Latin
America and Asia. pdf-file 204 KB. June 2003 |
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Nine Steps to Getting Suppliers' B2B Buy-In |
If your company plans to invest in tighter integration and
collaboration with its trading partners for procurement execution
you can avoid some mistakes. The fundamental premise is this: never
forget that supplier buy-in will be the key to your success. |
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Services Procurement |
Capturing Value from E-Procurement of Services: Lessons from the
Real World. July 2003 |
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