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The Perfect Point-of-View

2012

• February 2012: Breadth and Depth: getting the best of both worlds

  Is your ERP procurement module lacking functionality? Consider integrating Perfect Commerce solutions for greater visibility, streamlined savings and control over spend.

• February 2012: Finance and Procurement Departments: can’t we all just get along?

  Finance and Procurement join forces, working together to get to the bottom line and streamline savings enterprise-wide.

• January 2012: Is Integration a SaaS Weakness?

  In this month’s newsletter, we discuss what challenges organizations can face with their ERP on-premise solution and SaaS integration. See what questions you should be asking, and how to get more out of your procurement process.

2011

• December 2011: Better Information to Guide Your Procurement Process

  Elmer Letts, a Procurement, Sourcing and Manufacturing expert with over 30 years experience shares vital tips on how to analyze your company’s spend. Learn how knowing what you’re spending on, who you’re spending with and how much you’re spending can better your company’s s Procurement process.

• November 2011: Transform Procurement Data into Value

  Read here to see how a spend analysis program can help your data reveal more about your company spend. See how focusing on one commodity or even enterprise-wide spend can reveal more about company value while exposing and resolving key issues.

• October 2011: Transforming Your Procurement Department: Creating and Delivering Strategic Value

  Implementing the steps outlined in this article can allow your company to easily communicate a procurement vision to have better visibility at the executive table. Learn how identifying spend, encouraging global sourcing and promoting stakeholder buy-in can all work towards benefiting your procurement department.

• September 2011: Get your company's spend vision tested and put the hidden savings into focus.

  Knowing where your company is spending its money, and having a clear understanding of indirect spending is a simple solution to saving your company hard earned dollars and protecting your bottom line.

• August 2011: Top Tips for the Procurement Vendor Selection Process.

  Vendor selection is imperative to creating and maintaining beneficial relationships. Check out these tips for choosing your procurement vendor.

• July 2011: Supplier Networks: Moving Beyond the Traditions of e-Procurement

  The Aberdeen Group explains the benefits of companies using Supplier Networks: better supplier communication, consolidated best practices and improved catalog maintenance. View the full report in this newsletter.

• June 2011: Managing requests gone awry? Take control of your sourcing requests now

  Finding a better way to manage your company's requests can save precious time and resources, and make your requisition turnover more efficient.

• May 2011: Top four issues for CPOs, Purchasing Directors and Managers

  Fears about the economy, inflation, oil prices and a double-dip recession weighed heavily on the International Supply Management (ISM) Conference this year; read about these pains and more in May's eNewsletter.

• April 2011: Enhance the Purchasing Process in your ERP

  ERP solutions are a sweeping resolution for most business, but many are finding that the Procurement capabilities lack the power they are looking for in an epurchasing system. See how your company can supplement its current ERP system with Perfect Commerce's more conducive procurement solution.

• March 2011: PerfectContract: Improved Contract Process Means Significant Cost Savings

  The last thing supply managers need is to spend precious time creating and negotiating contracts. Read more about how Perfect Commerce can better regulate this draining process.

• February 2011: Is your business capturing its entire ePurchasing savings?

  Making the switch to eProcurement and eSourcing will produce savings, yes, but is there more your company can do beyond that? Read more about additional Perfect Commerce tools that can save your company even more money.

• January 2011: Introducing PerfectShop: Optimized Shopping Experience for Indirect Purchases

  Perfect Commerce brings a user-friendly Amazon inspired catalog upgrade to their clients, allowing for a more familiar search and shop user-experience. Read this Q & A interview with President and CEO, Hamp Wall.

2010

• December 2010: Search Comes to the Purchasing Department

  Purchasing has made leaps and bounds in the business world in recent years. Google has upped the ante for information access. Read more in this month's newsletter about how we are keeping up too.

• November 2010: Determining the Effectiveness of your Purchasing Processes

  The end of another year is the perfect time to look at how your company is stacking up against its aspirations for the year. Read more about four goals that can help your company's purchasing department be more successful in 2011.

• October 2010: e-Procurement Goes Mainstream. Is This Good News?

  Find out more about the eProcurement lifecycle and how changes in the industry will work to your company's advantage or disadvantage.

• September 2010: SaaS: What it is and what it means to your business.

  Software as a service is a newly embraced client/server technology that is proving a worthwhile investment for companies, find out here if it's right for yours.

• August 2010: The Complex Purchase in 3 Clicks

  Purchasing services through a SaaS procurement model can cause procurement confusion. Procurement departments, often unfamiliar with service purchasing, can find out how to get a better grasp on this new field in this month's eNewsletter.

• July 2010: Slice Your Outsourcing

  Outsourcing in this economy can be a mammoth undertaking, a better understanding and a step-by-step process can help you transition your purchasing strategies. See if your department is adequately equipped to make the switch.

• June 2010: Raising the Profile of the Purchasing Department

  Purchasing Departments rarely get the credit they deserve, but this month's eNewsletter gives you insight into how you can increase the appreciation of your department.

• May 2010: Green Purchasing Initiatives

  Are companies losing interest in "going green"? We looked into what companies are doing to stay green despite the suffering economy.

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