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Maximizing Benefits from Procurement |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
There has been a recent emphasis in areas such as global supplier identification, vendor quality management, low cost country sourcing, supplier rationalization, and supplier diversity programs. When IT gets stretched across these many programs and disconnected activities, it can lose value as a lever for improved productivity. In this paper, you will learn how to counter these obstacles by implementing supply base management technology to manage supplier facing processes. |
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Beyond Supplier Enablement |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
Many companies underestimate the importance of procurement in driving significant bottom line results and providing critical support to strategic initiatives. The very best in procurement have a relentless focus on metrics and benchmarks. It is critical for companies to maximize the number of connected suppliers and the overall level and quality of the relationships. This paper will show how applying this can help your organization reach the upper end of the spectrum in procurement. |
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Supply Base Management: Strategy to Execution |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
Many feel that achieving significant savings and returns from procurement requires a major shift in strategy and is a long term process. From our experience, immediate savings can be achieved on quick win solutions such as: Increasing supply base, having tighter linkages with suppliers, managing suppliers’ performances, credentials and compliances, etc. This white paper will explain how the best possible returns can be delivered without disrupting the business of your IT organization. |
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Tapping Maximum Value from your IT Balance sheet |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
When it comes to identifying the best run businesses, ROA (return on assets) tends to be a compelling indicator, allowing investors and executives to determine whether the company is efficiently using its assets. This paper will explain how complementing traditional procurement investments with on–demand supply base management solutions can help you achieve that higher ROA. |
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Five Steps to Improve ROI from Procurement |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
There are new low cost approaches to accelerate and maximize benefits of existing procurement systems. Supply base management is an approach that helps build internal momentum and support for broader platform or procurement initiatives, as well as provide hard dollar savings and improved compliance. This paper will provide five sets of tactics to improve Procurement savings. |
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Supply Base Management: CPO Agenda |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
It’s relatively easy to achieve initial savings from procurement platform technology investments. Getting to that next level of savings and sustainability can be challenging though. This white paper shows solutions that can produce immediate benefits that complement and extend existing investments in procurement infrastructures. |
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e-Procurement Maturity Model |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
Companies tend to underestimate problems with supplier on–boarding, content management and process integration. This limits system effectiveness and the scalability of initiatives that procurement builds around those systems. In order to combat this, leading companies have implemented supply base management. This paper will how implementing this solution can generate immediate saving and long term returns by helping you move up the supply base management maturity curve, reaching industry leading levels of supplier enablement and overall spend capture. |
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Achieving Agility and Responsiveness in Procurement |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
Few practitioners would describe their procurement software systems agile. Reasons can range from slow responsive software applications to their inability to onboard and integrate a good amount of suppliers into their procurement processes. This paper will explain how supply base management can accelerate and breathe life into procurement technology initiatives, making your entire organization more agile without wasting resources. |
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Supply Base Management: Platform–to–Foundation |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2008
IT is an important enabler in creating savings and sustainable value in procurement. This paper will show you how IT has the potential to team with procurement, to create new sources of value by enabling more suppliers and capturing addition spend and savings. |
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Executive Overview of Supply Base Management |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2007
Procurement plays a powerful role in expanding profit margins, improving operating efficiency, and reducing cost associate with regulatory compliance. There are higher expectations for procurement to rapidly adapt to strategic programs. The high numbers of hidden complexities prevent this from happening in a cost effective and timely manner. This paper will show how Supply Base Management can alleviate these problems. |
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Integration Whitepaper on Ketera Spend Management |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2007
Ketera has specifically created its offerings to manage the heterogeneous business and IT environments that characterize many of today’s large–scale enterprise application deployments. It can work in conjunction with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or a 3rd party system to provide a closed loop Enterprise Spend Management automation. This paper describes how companies are bringing Ketera into their architecture, using Enterprise Integration and Supply Chain Integration. |
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The CPO's Strategic Agenda |
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Published By Aberdeen Group, 2007
CPOs are searching for ways to translate procurement performance into enterprise financial terms. The convergence of procurement and finance is helpful but CPOs need to take advantage of the CFO relationship to drive the bottom-line. The Aberdeen group has researched this opportunity in detail using over 500 procurement executives. |
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E-Procurement: Trials and Triumphs |
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Published By Aberdeen Group, 2007
Procurement has shifted from a back office, tactical function to an integrally strategic business operation. Best-in-Class enterprises demonstrate that automation and integration with other systems has transformed procurement into an information hub, supporting decision making and business planning, while also driving significant improvements in transaction processing, contract compliance and financial reporting. Aberdeen examines the goals, hurdles and strategies and results of 622 enterprises. |
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Supplier Enablement |
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Published By Aberdeen Group, 2007
Companies are frequently being plagued with supply chain disruptions, insufficient supplier information, revenue leakage, and missed cost savings. The Best-in-Class enterprises, however, have been able to demonstrate that supplier enablement can positively impact the business when the right technologies and practices are employed. Aberdeen distinguished the Best in Companies using: percent of supplier enabled and percent of spend under management. They also illustrate the requirements for this success. |
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ServiceMaster gains from investment in On Demand Ketera Procurement Solution |
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Published By ServiceMaseter, 2006
ServiceMaster realized that they could extract significant savings from the procurement processes by rationalizing the supplier base, improving the ability to negotiate best process and eliminating maverick spending. This paper illustrates how their implementation of Ketera’s procurement and supplier enablement solutions resulted in higher savings and compliance rates. |
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The Sarbanes–Oxley Act |
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Published By Ketera Technologies, 2005
The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is one of the most stringent set of business regulations to have ever been enacted. Failure to comply can result in criminal and financial penalties. In order to avoid these severe penalties, companies have implemented systems to help with compliance. Even with these added costs, there is an actual bright side. This paper shows how Sox compliance can help your organization improve its efficiency by enhancing visibility, reducing risk, and achieving greater control under spend management. |
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Summit Strategies Spend Management On Demand |
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Published By Summit Strategies, 2004
Spend Management promises to deliver significant savings by enabling companies to gain control and manage their enterprise spending on an on–going basis. In this paper, Summit Strategies discuss the practice, challenges, and value of implementing effective spend management processes. They then discuss why they believe the on demand model will become the defacto standard in spend management space. |
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Aberdeen Whitepaper on Procurement Contract Management |
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Published By Aberdeen Group, 2004
Aberdeen group has structured a competitive framework that gauges best practice adoptions and helps your company understand how it relates to others in the industry. In this paper, Aberdeen will illustrate the five business infrastructure elements which include: Organization, Process, Knowledge, Technology, and Performance Metrics. |
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Aberdeen Whitepaper on eProcurement Benchmark Reports |
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Published By Aberdeen Group, 2004
Enterprises today are using e–procurement to manage more requisitions, spend categories, and suppliers than ever before. In this paper, Aberdeen examines the hurdles, strategies, and results of nearly 150 enterprises using e–procurement today. They identify the best practices for maximizing spend under control, as well as the value of e–procurement. |
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Gartner Research on eProcurement |
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Published By Gartner, Inc, 2003
E–procurement has been an over–hyped application; however, its recent maturation is setting the stage for a comeback. The application is no longer just a "catalog" solution sold by unstable vendors. In this paper, Gartner Research shows how complementary tools have emerged, making it part of a broader, more strategic, and even underrated solution. |
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Gartner Research on Six Keys To Better Procurement Contract Management |
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Published By Gartner, Inc, 2003
Every procurement team has specific requirements for managing contracts. In this paper, Gartner illustrates the six key, technology–based features that should be on your shopping list for consideration, when choosing a contract management application. |
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Gartner Research on Role Of Contract Management In SRM |
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Published By Gartner, Inc, 2002
Every supplier relationship must be underpinned by a legally binding contract. Enterprises with thousands of contracts will need to manage them effectively. In this paper, Gartner explains that with a lack of visibility and control of the contract life cycle, enterprises will often fail to extract full value from the contract and supplier relationship. |
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Aberdeen Whitepaper on Supplier Relationship with Contract Management |
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Published By Aberdeen Group
Nearly half of every dollar that a company earns is spent on external suppliers; making contract management a cornerstone of total cost management. In this paper, Aberdeen explains that companies who employ standard enterprise wide procedures for contact management, can significantly save on costs with suppliers. |
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Aberdeen Whitepaper on Contract Management |
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Published By Aberdeen Group
Companies are annually losing billions of dollars to contract leakages, unredeemed rebates, inefficient processes, and suboptimal contract terms. Most companies are ill equipped to effectively create, execute, or manage contracts in an optimal manner. In this article, Aberdeen Group explains how using a Web–based contract management solution can alleviate these problems. |
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The Incredible Pay Back |
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By Nelson, Moody, and Stegner
Software can now solve many supply chain problems and achieve payback very quickly. Ketera offers solutions to increase spend visibility and to track costs. Its software is also designed to standardize and automate routine processes, freeing up analysts for more strategic work. In this paper, the practices of Kennametal are used to illustrate how supply managers have moved from traditional procurement practices to technology innovation. |
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