IQNavigator White Papers provide in-depth insights and business rationale regarding the various aspects of Services Procurement & Spend Management.
Services Are Not Goods
Why You Need A Different Approach to Your Company’s Purchases of Services
Services now represent the largest component of indirect expenditures, and are growing twice as fast as goods purchases overall. While procured services can reduce costs, actually realizing the cost savings can be challenging given the complexity of service deliverables, contracts and quality. Maverick spending is harder to control since services purchases are more dispersed throughout the enterprise. Overcoming these obstacles can result in tens of millions of dollars of cost savings each year – making services purchases the next big savings opportunity.
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Aberdeen’s E-Procurement Benchmark Report: Driving Year-Over-Year Superior Performance
“The E-Procurement Benchmark Report" evaluates the strategies, capabilities and procurement performance of over 400 enterprises, discovering that E-Procurement solutions continually add value to the ever-evolving procurement unit. The research supports the value of E-Procurement technology, such as IQNavigator for services procurement, that serves as a driver for improvements in transaction-processing and compliance. The report concluded that E-Procurement technology transforms the procurement organization into a knowledgeable source of real-time information and spend visibility. Find out how you can achieve Best-in-Class results.
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The Next Generation of Managed Service Programs
There are several key market trends and dynamics which have become consistent globally among major Fortune 2000 firms with Next Generation Managed Service Programs. These dynamics demand that Next Generation Managed Service Programs provide support for all service categories, provide a flexible service model, provide global support, and most importantly provide strategic support to organizations. These best practice trends are outlined in this whitepaper.
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The CPO's Strategic Agenda
Managing Performance, Reporting to the CFO Report Update
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Aberdeen Research - The Contract Labor Benchmark Report
New Perspectives on Temporary Staffing, Off-shoring, and Outsourcing
Today's competitive environment calls for flexible staffing where enterprises can quickly adjust staffing levels and skills for new initiatives and varying workloads. This report discusses the challenges of managing contract labor and recommends strategies to achieve greater efficiency, savings, and compliance.
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The On Demand Supply Management Benchmark Report
On Demand applications are making headlines in a number of functional areas, the most prominent being sales force automation. However, this phenomenon is spreading quickly through the supply management world and in the minds of procurement professionals. This white paper discusses the benefits of using an On Demand solution for Supply Management.
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Managing Costs of Procured Services
Purchased services are a large, under-managed, and quickly growing portion of enterprise spending, both larger than indirect goods purchases and more operationally important. However, typical procurement automation approaches are unable to manage the complexities and uniqueness of services, resulting in a large but hidden opportunity to significantly reduce costs and manage many compliance risks. This white paper discusses the cost savings opportunity to managing your procured services.
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Why Technology Matters
Software architecture shouldn’t matter to customers for web-based hosted applications. As long as performance is good and the functionality is usable, the software internals don’t matter to the customer. However, today’s reality is that business requirements change quickly. Learn what to pay attention to when evaluating software
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Aberdeen Research - Best Practices in Category Spend Management: Contract Labor
Success Strategies for Consistency, Compliance, and Cost Savings
Contract labor, a critical component of companies’ talent management strategies, has too often fallen through the cracks between human resources and procurement. Yet recently it has come under significant examination by both departments. This report reviews why the recent attention, discusses the challenges to improvement, and outlines the strategies and related benefits best practice companies are achieving today.
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Building a Business Case for Services Procurement
This white paper identifies the challenge facing the Chief Procurement Officers in extending their control to procured services, and describes how to build and market a business case for services procurement, in the following sections:
- The Challenge to Procurement
- Using Opportunity Assessment to Build the Business Case
- Conclusion and Next Steps
Harry Eng, the author, is a Senior Supply Chain Executive and former Procurement Director for a Fortune 50 company who has more than 30 years consulting and operational experience in the corporate and federal government sectors specializing in Strategic Sourcing, Demand Management, Change Management and e-Procurement.
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True Software-as-a-Service Delivers More Value
This white paper describes how and why next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings deliver much higher value at a fraction of the time and cost of legacy enterprise software providers. More and more software providers are offering subscription pricing and hosting services, but only software designed from scratch to provide automatic upgrades on a multi-tenant platform will deliver increasing ongoing value at a far lower total cost of ownership. This white paper discusses the difference between true SaaS offerings and SaaS pretenders, how true SaaS delivers far more value, and how you can identify and avoid SaaS pretenders.
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Making the Contingent Workforce Strategic
Enterprises continue to increase their use of the contingent workforce for project-based initiatives, to manage changes in demand, and for overall financial flexibility. However, if not managed well, contractors and "temporary" employees can increase risks and costs unnecessarily.
This white paper discusses the human capital management aspects of utilizing the contingent workforce, including the situations that lend themselves to contingent labor and best-practices of managing the associated costs and risks.
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The Hidden Opportunity for Quick Profit Improvement
This white paper details the rationale and benefits of automating Services Procurement & Spend Management to achieve significant profit improvement within weeks, while gaining long-term process efficiencies and strategic advantage.
Addressed to CFOs and VPs of Procurement, it will also assist those who are creating a business case for managing this spend category.
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The Next Generation of Enterprise Software
This white paper describes how next-generation "Business Service Providers" (BSPs) deliver much higher value at a fraction of the time and cost of legacy enterprise software providers.
Targeted at enterprise software buyers, it describes how to maximize benefits from partnering with BSPs and when BSPs are most beneficial.
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