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Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: Perspectives from suppliers – Part 2

Lessons Learned

Jun 15, 2006

Current Trends in Production Labor Sourcing: Findings 4-7

PART 1: Findings 1-3 PART 2: Findings 4-7 PART 3: Findings 8-10 PART 4: Conclusion PLS is a fast emerging trend in the management of semi-skilled production labor. It is…

Jun 8, 2006

Current Trends in Production Labor Sourcing: Findings 1-3

PART 1: Findings 1-3 PART 2: Findings 4-7 PART 3: Findings 8-10 PART 4: Conclusion PLS is a fast emerging trend in the management of semi-skilled production labor. It is…

May 26, 2006

Outsourcing Production Labor: A New Breed of Lean Manufacturing

The following report is introductory to Dr Handfield’s research on “ Current Trends in Production Labor Sourcing“ Manufacturing companies are beginning to examine the business case for outsourcing production tasks…

Mar 8, 2006

Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: Reduce Complexity in Catalogs and Buying Channels – Part 8

PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 PART 9 PART 10 Many of the experts also emphasized the need to reduce…

Mar 8, 2006

Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: Conclusions and Observations – Part 10

Virtually all of the hypotheses identified at the beginning of the research project were validated by the suppliers and subject matter experts interviewed in the study. A confluence of respondents…

Mar 8, 2006

Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: Secure Top Management Support – Part 9

Having a champion in senior management to send the signal that compliance to the redesigned P2P process is critical. Ideally, a policy of “zero tolerance” should be established, with consequences…

Mar 2, 2006

Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: On-Site Relationship Managers – Part 5

PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 PART 9 PART 10 An important point that many respondents noted was the need…

Mar 2, 2006

Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: Develop a Robust Technology w/a Portal to Minimize Touch P6

A number of SME’s described the need to eliminate the manual intervention of multiple untrained individuals in entering information into systems such as SAP. Many ERP systems have modules for…

Jan 18, 2006

Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: Subject matter expert insights into the P2P process – Part 4

PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 PART 9 PART 10 A number of senior executives from a variety of different…

Jan 4, 2006

Best Practices in Procure to Pay Cycle: Perspectives from suppliers – Part 2

PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 PART 9 PART 10 We first interviewed eight suppliers who were known to have…