Welcome Thursday, March 18, 2010
Services Procurement
Services procurement encompasses the strategic management and procuring of complex category services such as contract labour, consultancy services, marketing, print, travel, telecoms and legal services.
Services spend represents an enormous expense and while companies try in earnest to control the costs, few have the same visibility into their services expenditure as for goods and materials.
It is estimated that nearly 50 per cent of corporate procurement spending is for services, and for even the most proficient enterprise, services spending can still be an abyss of unsourced buying and lost savings opportunities.
Consequently leading organisations are looking at methods for tracking this spend and the significant savings a correctly centralised services procurement strategy can deliver.
SERVICES PROCUREMENT NEWS
- Siemens touts Global Procurement Service
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:25:28 - Analysis: Services spend an antidote to continued economic gloom
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:25:22 - Procurement to blame for poor WPP performance
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:57:48 - UK services sector back in positive territory
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:11:35 - UBS adopts shared services model
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:46:22
SERVICES PROCUREMENT COMMENT
SERVICES PROCUREMENT ARTICLES
- Roundtable: Business travel, Brussels
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:05:45 - Cutting out labour costs
Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:38:00 - In the eye of the storm
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:47:00 - Procurement and Marketing
Thu, 01 May 2008 09:09:42 - The 21st century challenge
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:18:19
SERVICES PROCUREMENT PRESENTATIONS
Best of Breed Multi-Vendor Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a critical business strategy employed by many companies with varying degrees of success. Today, organisations are moving away from a sole-provider solution in favor of multi-source engagements. Outsourcing certain IT and other business functions to multiple specialist providers can result in improved cost savings and accountability, greater services expertise, and the ability to focus internal resources on the business elements and functions that drive competitive advantage.
Flying high at BAE Systems… how Indirect Procurement Services turned a minus into a plus
Can procurement transform itself in five years from being a drain on company resources into a source of revenue? Yes, it can. This is exactly what the procurement professionals at BAE Systems have proved.
SERVICES PROCUREMENT RESEARCH
- Purchasing Marketing Services
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:55:31 - Media Buying Agencies in Europe
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:05:00
