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Friday, September 03, 2010
Friday, September 03, 2010
Procurement Outsourcing News
Analysis: An educated approach to procurement outsourcing
In 2007 A.T. Kearney published an indirect procurement study that hinted at a dramatic increase in procurement outsourcing before the decade was out. Now, three years on, similar research by the same firm has suggested that its original analysis was wide of the mark.
Analysis: The pitfalls of procurement outsourcing
If you follow recent research, 2010 is the year that procurement outsourcing takes off. Not that there aren't many major companies heavily engaged with it already - Kimberly Clarke and Unilever being two examples.
16:13, 13 May, 2010
Analysis: Driving change through outsourcing
It's not all about cost - change is a growing factor in companies decisions to outsource business processes. So says recent research by Horses for Sources, a US-based analyst firm and blog, into the ITO and BPO industry landscape in 2010.
10:12, 30 Apr, 2010
Unilever and Kimberly-Clark lead CP procurement outsourcing
Since 2006, more than 20 per cent of top-tier US consumer products (CP) companies including Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Sara Lee and Chiquita have signed procurement outsourcing agreements in an effort to reduce indirect costs, drive bottom line improvements or reinvest to drive growth, it has been claimed.
11:17, 07 Apr, 2010
Outsourcing and multi-sourcing gain ground
The number of outsourcing contracts awarded globally will rise in 2010 as organisations look for new ways to optimise critical business operations such as procurement, new research predicts.
09:00, 26 Mar, 2010
Analysis: Siemens moves into procurement outsourcing space
The entry into the procurement sector by Siemens IT Solutions and Services in March with Siemens Global Procurement raised a few eyebrows.
14:48, 25 Mar, 2010
Procurement outsourcing to grow 20 per cent in 2010
The multi-process Procurement Outsourcing (PO) market witnessed increased activity in 2009 with the number of new contract signings and extensions increasing 30 and 90 per cent, respectively, compared to 2008, new research reveals.
09:08, 23 Mar, 2010
JLL and IBM sign seven-year services agreement
Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional services firms specialising in real estate and investment management, has outsourced its IT procurement to IBM as part of a seven-year information technology (IT) services deal.
09:17, 04 Feb, 2010
Swedish e-sourcing firm acquired by Capgemini
Swedish procurement technology company, IBX, has been acquired by Capgemini in a deal being described as providing, "the industry's first global end-to-end procurement as-a-service offering".
09:31, 02 Feb, 2010
Analysis: BP outsources IT procurement
If 2009 was the year that saw a wave of procurement outsourcing, it was a relatively small wave.
10:32, 28 Jan, 2010
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