New advances in communication technologies have made Unified Communications (UC) a powerful tool for businesses of any size. Evaluating new UC solutions can be challenging as email, faxing, voice, video conferencing, and more are merged into a single product. This vendor comparison helps the UC buyer highlight key features of industry leaders like Avaya, ShoreTel, Cisco, Interactive Intelligence, and Mitel.
Smarter Commerce is designed to help companies better integrate and more effectively manage their value chains. It aligns the buy, market, sell and service processes in a way that puts the customer at the center of decisions and actions, which can lead to greater customer loyalty, revenue and profit margin growth and agility.
In the most recent supply chain visibility survey, the growing supply chain complexity was the top business pressure (44%). This, in turn, has contributed to increased supply chain management costs. It is not surprising that in the situation of global economic turmoil that visibility is taking center stage. This report focuses on gaining visibility into critical elements across the end-to-end logistics network for improving cost and service. But before a company can reduce inventory or landed cost, it needs visibility into them. Only then can it apply tools to agilely adapt to the information it collects.
Improving a company's supply chain operations is a complex process. The SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) model provides a unique framework that links business processes, metrics, best practices, and technology into a unified structure designed to improve supply chain management effectiveness.
Read this report to learn the answer to these three questions: How Can You Better View Customer Demand and Respond to Changes? How Can You Improve Supplier Lead Times and Responsiveness? How Do You Manage Your Manufacturing Network Outside of Your Own Four Walls? The report includes three case studies from Colgate-Palmolive, Sauer-Danfoss and Conair.
Achieving the level of measurement and visibility required, however, is a challenge in itself. Common obstacles such as metric and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) definition, cross-departmental alignment, and lack of end-to-end metric definition can cause many measurement programs to fall short of their charter. Using a standards based framework such as the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCORŪ) model from the Supply Chain Council can help retailers avoid many of these obstacles, with an industry accepted metric hierarchy that spans departmental functions to enforce alignment with corporate objectives.
Over the past few years, contract management processes have increased in their importance and complexity within global enterprises. There are many drivers that have demonstrated this increase such as an increase in corporate litigation and industry regulation globally. With the demand to increase visibility into supplier relationships for lowering supplier risk, many organizations have turned to automating their contract management processes for internal and external contract collaboration. Based on this research, Best-in-Class companies are realizing 3.25-times more contract savings than Laggards and an average of 39 day cycle time improvement for procurement contract review and approval. Surveying over 130 industry directors and managers, this report demonstrates that organizations distinguishing themselves as Best-in-Class today are those that have established the ?paperless contract? approach for managing procurement contracts.
Government Product News serves government managers, engineers, administrators, department heads, and procurement professionals who specify, plan, and buy for city, county, state, and federal governments.
A phone system plays a crucial role in an enterprise, yet the rapidly expanding options and recent developments in the voice communication market can be difficult to follow and fully understand, unless you are a seasoned telephony pro. When choosing a phone solution for your business, you need unbiased, practical advice to help align available options with the features you need, what costs to expect and appropriate vendor choices.
In this Focus Experts' Guide, you will find the insights and information you need, including:
Current market conditions and trends
A list of key vendors
What product, vendor and cost considerations to make
Get the essential steps for choosing a new enterprise-class business phone system with this updated Buyer's Guide. Their comprehensive Guide has the very latest information to guide you through the selection and purchase process. You will be able to understand your business requirements and confidently move into the vendor comparison stage.
