Welcome Friday, October 10, 2008
Value Creation Articles
Procurement no longer making up the numbers 
Procurement is facing “a perfect storm” but the current financial crisis offers a once in a lifetime opportunity for it to answer “the call to arms” – just two findings from Hackett Research’s latest Book of NumbersTM, writes Richard Edwards in a Procurement Leaders Exclusive.
Oct 08
Procurement in credit as crunch continues to bite
‘Nightmare on Wall Street’ was how one leading UK newspaper described the cataclysmic events in the US financial markets earlier this week – events that had achieved the unlikely feat of making everything that had gone before it seem positively tame, writes Richard Edwards.
Sep 08
EA Sports centralizes marketing spend
An increasing number of companies are centralising their marketing procurement activities in order to achieve greater value with the latest company to do so being British computer games company, Electronic Arts
Aug 08
Deutsche Post World Net finds best fit to deliver procurement excellence
Any business project is greeted with a certain amount of trepidation, but when you’re overseeing the transformation of a procurement operation within a company with an annual revenue of over €60 billion, employing more than 500,000 people in 220 countries across the globe, you can be forgiven for having the odd sleepless night.
Jun 08
Get up and grow
As one of the newest members of the FTSE-100, Carphone Warehouse hasn’t had long to develop its procurement operation and, as David Rae reports, the function has had to grow rapidly in a short space of time.
Jun 08
Low prices – thanks to expert procurement
Procurement people have helped make politicians’ dreams come true, says Robin Jackson.
May 08
Route to Market
Marketing services is one of the big challenges for procurement leaders. ELP brought senior procurement leaders from global companies based in Europe together to exchange ideas on the issues. Compiled by Mark Whitehead.
Oct 07
Improving procurement’s value proposition – evolution not revolution the key
Improving the value proposition of procurement is one of the fundamental aims of any procurement organisation, but if anyone out there thought that revolution was the best way to achieve this they would be missing the point – according to new research by The Hackett Group, evolution is the key, writes Richard Edwards.
Aug 07
Procurement cards demonstrating value creation worth
Figures published last week suggest that the UK government is now saving over £108m (160 million euros), through its procurement card usage. The Government Procurement Card Annual Report 2006, which was published by the OGCbuying solutions (OGCbs) and Visa, claimed that savings had risen by over a third in the past 12 months.
Jul 07
Scenario: How do you persuade your team and your board-level managers that there is usually far more to good purchasing than price alone?
Enlightened procurement professionals agree that there is usually far more to good purchasing than price alone. But as the new CPO at an organisation where price rules, how do you persuade your team and your board-level managers?
May 07
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