This whitepaper outlines an innovative and proactive approach for compliant independent contractor engagement. Today’s economic landscape has shifted into a “Project Economy.” With an estimated half of all newly created positions being contract based, independent contract compliance, its challenges and modern solutions, have never been more relevant in the workplace. The integration of customized solutions, [...]

Tips and Tactics for Winning over Business Stakeholders and Spend Owners 2010 Volume 1: The Services Spending Revolution: Gaining Visibility, Control and Saving Excerpt: Spend Matters analysis suggests that procurement organizations that market themselves effectively drive greater identified and implemented savings across both simple and complex services categories. More important than getting initial savings to [...]

Achieving And Implementing Savings Across Previously Unmanaged Categories 2010 Volume 1: The Services Spending Revolution: Gaining Visibility, Control and Saving Excerpt: In recent years, many procurement organizations have begun to examine the opportunity to consolidate their contingent—and even statement of work (SOW)—buying activities under a single buying umbrella. While undertaking the management of sourcing and [...]

Gartner Case Study Shows How Jeppesen Utilized IQNavigator’s Contingent Workforce Management Solution to Become More Agile…

Selecting Services Procurement Technology – Options, Approaches, and Philosophy
SPEND MATTERS COMPASS SERIES
2010 Volume 1: The Services Spending Revolution: Gaining Visibility, Control and Savings

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 [...]

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. [...]

A report from Aberdeen Research Group The most effective CPOs manage their performance like any other executive. They have standard metrics that help them gauge the health of their operations and benchmarks for relative comparisons. However, CPOs are challenged to demonstrate their impact in commonly understood and accepted enterprise financial terms. The convergence of procurement [...]

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 [...]