Cost savings are still a key driver for many organisations looking to outsource all or part of their IT infrastructure but the LSE research of 450 real-life case studies found that in one in five deals the supplier is not expected to make any...
Savings to date have come from lowered process costs and supplier prices rather than a reduction in the number of purchasing teams Ford employs or its supplier headcount. The motor giant has never said exactly how much money it put into the...
The NAO report points to inadequate contract management and poor initial implementation within the department and says the DfT was over optimistic in setting its timetable and goals for the programme with its main IT supplier IBM.
Ford is to merge its private supplier network with Covisint, the auto industry exchange it helped found over a year ago. The 4,200 suppliers and 42,000 end users on the private Ford Supplier Network (FSN) will now conduct business with the motor...
There is a trend in IT for supplier-customer relationships to be called partnerships. Partnerships are springing up as a name for what otherwise could be considered traditional supplier-customer relationships.
For example, much of the supplier consolidation happened by eliminating firms that had not been transacted with in the last 24 months but were still registered in the SAP system as an active supplier.