When a small-to-medium business has multiple offices and teams around the country, managing procurement can be a challenge. Here’s how fast-growing businesses...
When a small-to-medium business has multiple offices and teams around the country, managing procurement can be a challenge. Here’s how fast-growing businesses are using self-service procurement features to control spend, speed up business, and meet employee expectations.
When a small-to-medium business has multiple offices and teams around the country, managing procurement can be a challenge. Here’s how fast-growing businesses are using self-service...
Cost reduction and managing risk remain the top priorities amongst procurement organizations today. One area that organizations should look to help reduce cost...
Cost reduction and managing risk remain the top priorities amongst procurement organizations today. One area that organizations should look to help reduce cost and risk is within their contracts. While some businesses have embarked on the journey of digitally transforming their contract lifecycle management (CLM) processes, there are still several teams who continue to rely on paper-based processes to create and manage their contracts. Below are some of the key benefits that...
Cost reduction and managing risk remain the top priorities amongst procurement organizations today. One area that organizations should look to help reduce cost and risk is within their contracts....
Supply chains need to be agile and connected to effectively serve customers today and tomorrow. Here are 6 characteristics of supply chains that are built to...
Supply chains need to be agile and connected to effectively serve customers today and tomorrow. Here are 6 characteristics of supply chains that are built to last.
Small-to-medium businesses are mitigating risk with better supplier qualification management strategies and technologies.
By Ana Galindo, Product Marketing Manager, SCM Cloud, Oracle Imagine a perfect purchasing world. In this world, employees are able to purchase the items and...
By Ana Galindo, Product Marketing Manager, SCM Cloud, Oracle Imagine a perfect purchasing world. In this world, employees are able to purchase the items and supplies they need in order to get their jobs done at the best-negotiated prices. Purchase orders would be automatically created and the finance team would be able to easily match an order with an invoice. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. What happens instead is that employees will purchase items through...
By Ana Galindo, Product Marketing Manager, SCM Cloud, Oracle Imagine a perfect purchasing world. In this world, employees are able to purchase the items and supplies they need in order to get their...
By Jim D’Addario, Director, SCM Product Marketing, Cloud Business Group From office supplies to raw materials to machinery parts, businesses are continually...
By Jim D’Addario, Director, SCM Product Marketing, Cloud Business Group From office supplies to raw materials to machinery parts, businesses are continually making purchases to ensure their employees have what they need to be productive and keep the manufacturing lines running. Procurement is a critical part of the business that ensures uninterrupted supply, consistent supplier performance, risk mitigation and cost control. To control costs, buying activities must be managed...
By Jim D’Addario, Director, SCM Product Marketing, Cloud Business Group From office supplies to raw materials to machinery parts, businesses are continually making purchases to ensure their employees...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Today's enterprises have taken steps to streamline procurement—but have work to do to optimize their entire...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Today's enterprises have taken steps to streamline procurement—but have work to do to optimize their entire source-to-pay process. Their biggest obstacle: supplier management. That was one of the key findings of a new report from Gatepoint Research, sponsored by Oracle. Of more than 100 procurement and operations executives surveyed, 41 percent said qualifying and managing suppliers is their most pressing problem. » 2018...
By Cara Vollmer, Senior Content Strategist, Oracle Today's enterprises have taken steps to streamline procurement—but have work to do to optimize their entire source-to-pay process. Their biggest...
By Angela Wilson, CSS International There are very different business requirements between how large enterprises and small-to medium businesses (SMBs) source...
By Angela Wilson, CSS International There are very different business requirements between how large enterprises and small-to medium businesses (SMBs) source goods and services. Yet the goals are the same: provide a consistent experience for end users who manage procurement, focus on supplier management, drive product quality and lower costs. With procurement now a strategic part of indirect and direct business operations, there is an imperative for more capable and modern...
By Angela Wilson, CSS International There are very different business requirements between how large enterprises and small-to medium businesses (SMBs) source goods and services. Yet the goals are the...
By David Haimes, Sr. Director of ERP Development, Oracle By now you’ve probably heard at least one description of what blockchain is, and that description...
By David Haimes, Sr. Director of ERP Development, Oracle By now you’ve probably heard at least one description of what blockchain is, and that description probably had something to do with money. Blockchain has received a lot of attention for its “distributed ledger” technology, which is the basis for buying or selling cryptocurrencies and other assets through private markets. But blockchain technology has broader applications than crptocurrencies. In the future, blockchain...
By David Haimes, Sr. Director of ERP Development, Oracle By now you’ve probably heard at least one description of what blockchain is, and that description probably had something to do with...
