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Priorities and Challenges in Spend Management : Procurement managers and executives share their most important and challenging priorities
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By Ariba Inc
What’s top of mind among procurement executives as they prepare for 2007? Ariba polled more than 550 procurement professionals representing diverse industries, roles, company sizes and geographic regions to understand their spend management priorities and challenges for the coming year. In addition to an executive summary of the findings, the Ariba survey provides unique insights into the spend management priorities and challenges for 14 different industry sectors
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Ariba® Spend Management On-Demand Solutions for Companies of All Sizes
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By Ariba Inc
Companies of all sizes share the same challenge: How to meet the growing pressures from inflation, globalization, and regulatory compliance on their business while effectively managing costs and delivering more savings to the bottom line. By providing a combination of low start-up costs, low IT resources required for startup through maintenance mode, rapid on-time implementation and quick access to the latest solutions, on-demand solutions are successfully meeting today' s challenge.
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Implementation of Metrics Using SCM Tools
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This whitepaper demonstrates the ease of use of metrics based on SCM. It also showcases the software process improvements made possible due to the Metrics collected
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Do It, Prove It: Mastering Compliance in Your IT Environment
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At BMC Software, we use our Business Service Management (BSM) solutions to achieve compliance, increase security, and ensure business continuity across the organization. Not only have we achieved our compliance goals, we use our existing processes to ensure business is our top priority
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The CFO's View of Procurement
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An Aberdeen Group report based on a study conducted by Aberdeen Group and Business Finance Magazine. This study, based on interviews and surveys of 100 senior-level financial executives, found that increasing spend under management is an important priority for finance and procurement.
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Looking to Manage Changing Regulations? Look No Further
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With a growing body of legislation dictating how companies may collect, use, store, and report electronic data, it's no wonder that many of today's most robust data and server management solutions are being developed specifically to help enterprises meet regulatory compliance requirements
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Streamlining Operations Through Enterprise-Wide Interoperability
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This paper discusses industry pressures to remove barriers to sharing business data within the manufacturing supply chain. The author points out the benefits to easing information exchange and the how this enables process automation throughout the enterprise.
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Supply Chain Management: The Science of Better, Faster, Cheaper
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This paper provides an overview of supply chain management, the impact of new information technologies on supply chain operations, as well as the macroeconomic benefits of an improved supply chain
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Web-Enabled Configurators Simplify the Selection of Complex Products
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This white paper describes the use of Internet-enabled product configurators in manufacturing industries.
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The Successful Adoption of Web-Based Collaborative Software
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Portals for transactions in government-to-government and business-to-government marketplaces are offered through diverse organizations. Numerous transit agencies are preparing to offer customized itinerary planning and fare media purchasing over the Internet. This paper describes, through three case studies, how web-based tools have been used to assist with controlling and managing active and planned construction projects, including schedules and costs of the projects. The paper also examines how web-based collaborative software has been used to help engineers share knowledge across varied programs and contracts and to create and enhance supply chain relationships.
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