Nine out of 10 procurement managers are intend to implement an e-procurement strategy, but still only 11 per cent have rolled out any form of internet purchasing. These are the facts according to the latest research on the uptake of e-procurement...
There was widespread anticipation earlier this month that Deutsche Bank is planning to outsource its procurement operations worldwide. It is assumed the recipients of the procurement outsourcing deals are not those who have benefited from the...
Of the first, Ellison points to some of the companies that have sprung up in recent years offering solutions for procurement and sourcing - or, in Ellison terms, 'one-feature' companies. It is only when applications are tightly integrated and...
Simon Rutter, head of IT procurement at RMC, said: "One of the main reasons we needed to make this change was because our current network was becoming increasingly complex. Other important issues for RMC were flexibility and scalability.
O2 is claiming to have saved around £4.5m in procurement costs since spring this year after implementing sourcing software from Ariba. Paul Greenshaw, major project manager for procurement at O2, said: "The software takes [procurement] processes...
Changes are afoot in the way European financial services companies outsource horizontal business processes, such as human resources, finance, accounting and procurement, new research shows. Financial services firms are becoming more motivated to...