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Supplier Diversity - A "Big Corporate" Example

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Oce North America Recognized as 2009 Strategic Vendor

Oce, an international leader in digital document management, today announced that it has been recognized as the 2009 Strategic Vendor of the Year by ReproMAX, a premier global network of independent reprographers and printers. Oce was selected for its exemplary contributions and commitment to the field of reprographics and was honored during the ReproMAX annual Fall Executive Conference in Chicago on September 10-12, 2009.

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WINWAY Technology

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Rosslyn Analytics` Spend Analysis Solution Delivers ROI for Aberdeen Asset Management and Clifford Chance within Eight Weeks | Reuters

Rosslyn Analytics, a technology company, is setting a new standard in spend intelligence for procurement and finance by developing an advanced web-based spend analysis solution that delivers a return on investment for organizations in weeks, not months or years.

Rosslyn Analytics announced that its flagship spend analysis solution, RA.Pid Enterprise, has enabled Aberdeen Asset Management and Clifford Chance to achieve, on average, a return on investment of 175%.

"Spend analysis, the process of obtaining visibility of spend data, should be as simple as flipping a switch on in order to obtain accurate, actionable intelligence," said Charles Clark, CEO, Rosslyn Analytics. "Rosslyn Analytics believes SaaS cloud spend analysis is the key to enabling procurement and finance professionals to drive immediate and sustainable cost savings.The speed and low cost of software as a service also enable decision-makers to receive a return on investment in weeks, not months, compared to traditional spend management solutions."

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Supplier Evaluation & Performance Excellence (Book)

A Guide to Meaningful Metrics and Successful Results By Sherry R. Gordon Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. This how-to book will help you develop and implement an evaluation process to help you reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both the performance of your company and your suppliers. This practical text includes examples of best practices that companies are using to evaluate suppliers and illustrates how to get beyond collecting data for the sake of data to achieving real results. It shows how to get at the meaning behind supplier metrics, and choose measurements that are meaningful both in the context of your company’s goals and also for the supplier. Supplier Evaluation and Performance Excellence helps you get at the root causes of supplier problems that even suppliers may be unaware of and enable them to make high-impact improvements. Many firms do not know where to begin in the supplier evaluation process, what ways would work best, or even what kind of results they want to get. They know that they should be measuring supplier performance, but may not understand why or what they would gain from it. This book is geared toward managers at two types of companies: those who know that they should be measuring supplier performance but don’t know where to start, and companies who want ideas about how to improve or revitalize a current program. Order Desk Preview & Table of Contents - PDF