Connecting Business Partners, Building Trust, and Reducing Transaction Costs with B2B Social Networking and Blockchain Payment Solution
TraDove
There was a problem in the B2B space – a world of professional buyers and sellers were looking for a simple way to connect and make trustworthy deals. But, no such dedicated business network existed. So we built one! Our social networking platform is tailor-made to find buyers and sellers the best-suited matches for their product and service needs, which are endorsed and reviewed by verified business partners. Members are able to collaborate on projects, find new markets for their leads and needs, and conduct trades with our own Blockchain Payment Solution – the very first B2B blockchain! By enabling blockchain-based credit scoring in the B2B space, we are solving the trust and privacy issues in international trade, and in doing so, cutting the high banking costs.
Impact Sourcing and Your Supply Chain
Sutherland Global
Impact Sourcing is a business practice where a company prioritizes suppliers that intentionally hire and provide career development opportunities to people who otherwise have limited prospects for formal employment. The practice has been shown to provide many business and social benefits.
Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Procurement and Supply Chain
GEP
Within a highly competitive field of profound technology innovations, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is clearly at the head of the pack. It's frequently recognized as the technological forerunner when it comes to revolutionary levels of enablement. Its potential power and influence is far reaching across verticals and functions. From finance to pharmaceuticals, logistics fleets to CRM – AI is impacting almost every layer of the modern organization
Procurement Supply Chain Outlook Report
GEP
Loosely translated from Latin, this means: To be forewarned is to be forearmed. That is, in essence, the mission of our annual GEP Outlook, now in its seventh year of publication. And in today's climate of sustained volatility, busy procurement and supply chain executives need every available tool they can get to help navigate global supply markets and to guide their teams through opinion and hype. Our annual Outlook report is designed to be a practical planning tool with respect to both macrolevel supply chain dynamics as well as category and commodity trends and innovations. It is based on GEP's collective experience in managing over $125 billion in spend across all sectors and geographies. Our aim is to provide the reader with a broad range of perspectives and thoughtful analysis of the emerging best practices we see as adding measurable value to our clients. And perhaps more importantly, to provide a collection of viewpoints that put these trends into a broader, more strategic context.
Key Strategies for Implementing Robotic Process Automation
Canon Business Process Services
New technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA) offer the opportunity to automate repetitive processes and more efficiently achieve business goals. Deploying software robots can enable organizations to execute current processes faster and more accurately, 24x7. The benefits can be significant and include boosting the return on investment; improving operational accuracy; enhancing compliance; achieving cost reductions and increasing scalability
Creating a Better Outsourcing Governance Model
Sapience Analytics
In 2017, the global outsourcing market reached 88.9 billion U.S. dollars, according to Statistia —that's 12 billion more than the previous year. U.S. companies are outsourcing more work every year, and it's easy to see why. Transferring responsibilities to an outside source can lower capital expenses and overhead, free employees' time to work on other tasks, increase efficiency for time-consuming functions, and improve quality for specialized work. But how do companies manage teams that are hundreds or even thousands of miles away, to ensure the best quality of work, and the greatest return on investment?
The Future of Workforce Management
Guidant Global
Organizations that want a competitive advantage through a high-performing workforce are looking to their strategic talent advisors to help them capitalize on shifting dynamics. With the rise of the contingent workforce and the drive to lower costs, the complexity of sourcing many different workforce elements shifted selective responsibility over to the procurement team from human resources HR team. In line with the trend to integrate diverse components of the workforce, HR and procurement are now collaborating to optimize performance of the workforce across all areas. This shift from focusing on cost, to one that balances cost and quality, and bring all the elements of the workforce into harmony
Making the Journey from Tactical to Strategic Procurement
ProcureAbility
Although leading procurement organizations become more mature every year, relationships with internal stakeholders often remain stuck in the perceptions of the past. The most common issue remains that internal stakeholders simply do not regard procurement as a true partner. If seen only as a tactical execution team, procurement won't reach its full potential. This barrier must be overcome on the evolutionary journey from tactical to strategic. In this paper, we discuss four challenges that procurement must “answer” to achieve strategic status in the eyes of business unit stakeholders
Proactive Talent & Knowledge Management
ProcureAbility
Accelerating workforce trends are driving rapid change across the economy and impacting procurement organizations. Unemployment has dropped to its lowest rate in 16 years as baby boomers continue to retire in droves. Add slowing productivity growth, evolving work habits, and new expectations among millennial workers, and procurement executives face significant challenges. Fortunately, opportunities also exist on the short horizon. Because more people are now open to working as contractors and consultants in the growing “flex/gig” economy, today's procurement organizations have more talent options to deliver value and meet stakeholder demands. Progressive procurement organizations are responding to trends by developing forward-looking approaches to hiring and retaining top talent, while also building formal knowledge management programs.
Business Spend Management: 2019 Benchmark Report
Coupa
Facing increasing economic uncertainty and the costs of ever-growing regulatory burdens, corporate leaders today must look inside their organizations to drive profitability and growth for a competitive advantage. Business Spend Management (BSM) - the processes and technologies that encompass all aspects of managing business spend, from sourcing to payments - enables leaders to reduce risk with the visibility and control needed to spend smarter every day.
The Dissatisfaction Conundrum: What Clients Are Not Telling Service Providers?
Everest Group
An Enterprise Pulse Study Market Report - January 2019
In this research we present:
- A summary of the views of various enterprises regarding the capabilities of services providers they engage across applications, digital, cloud, and infrastructure services
- Enterprise views around their key investment priorities in technology and digital services for 2019
History of Augmented Reality: Glow Pucks to Immersive Reality
Toptal
Andrew Graunke, Toptal Head of Enterprise Design, has implemented augmented reality (AR) design projects for dozens of enterprises. Here he outlines his pocket history of AR: from fighter jets to touchless computers to Glow Pucks, AR has already started making waves. Based on his current projects and pipeline, Graunke also blueprints his vision for AR's future.
