White Papers
HCMWorks, Inc. has launched a white paper series to help companies evaluate the best ways to optimize their indirect services expenditures. The ongoing series explores the challenges, solutions, and savings opportunities that can be achieved in multiple indirect services categories (consultants, temp labor, marketing, travel, legal, IT, etc.).
NEW! Our most recent White Paper is now available for download:
Driving Continuous Supplier Improvement
Driving Continuous Supplier Improvement
Readers will learn 6 Principles for Implementing Partnership Metrics.
As companies engage in greater numbers of supplier partnerships, and as partnerships become increasingly important in terms of strategic and financial impact, senior management... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Other White Papers available from HCMWorks:
Assessing Supplier Performance
Executive Summary
Two seemingly opposite trends in supplier management are gaining traction in the marketplace. According to an Institute
of Supply Management survey of leading national purchasing and supply professionals, “partnering” and “e-commerce” are
currently viewed as... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Segmenting the Supply Base to Improve Resource Allocation
Segmenting the Supply Base to Improve Resource Allocation
Procurement has played a key role in meeting their companies’ ambitious cost-cutting targets over the past several years. Utilizing recurring negotiations with suppliers, buyers have achieved... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Survey Results Indirect Services Procurement
Indirect Services Procurement Survey
As 2010 kicks off a new decade, North American economic markets are starting to see signs of recovery. At the same time, organizations continue to look for ways to reduce... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Total Cost of Productivity
Indirect Services Spend - Total Cost of Productivity
As corporations are looking for the first “green sprouts” of economic recovery, a changing dynamic in the marketplace has arisen. This will cause organizations to... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Ahead of the Curve
Prognostication: The Art of Predicting the Future
Today we hear phrases like “economic tsunami,” “the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression,” “crisis in labor,” “the economic crisis of 2009,” and “the world financial... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
The Value of Truly Vendor-Neutral Managed Service Programs
Managed Service Programs in Staffing
Using a strategy borrowed from corporate travel service providers, in the early 1980s staffing organizations began offering their own version of a Vendor on Premise (VOP) model to their... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Diamonds in the Backyard
Diamonds in the Backyard
There is an old parable about a farmer who heard that diamonds had been found in the nearby mountains. In the pursuit of riches, he quickly gave his farm to... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Staffing Industry: History and Perspective
Introduction to the Staffing Industry
Contingent workforce is a phrase coined by the late economist and U.S. Labor Department Analyst Audrey Freedman in the 1980s to identify the emerging group of independent workers (temporary... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER
Indirect Procurement intelligence beyond what our competitors provide – we don’t just guide our clients on what they can achieve, we help them achieve it.
- Beyond analysis and strategy, our teams of experts assist our clients by implementing successful change management and adoption programs that ensure sustainability and success.
- Technology Agnostic. We don’t believe systems are a “one size fits all.” Our analysis of your firm’s expenditures reveals the best market solutions based on your corporate goals, cultural nuances and definitions of business success.
- Create enterprise intelligence on a single platform for tremendous indirect procurement visibility.
- Our programs can be deployed from analysis to implementation within 3-6months with a rapid return on investment.
- Proof-of-Concept. We can start slow then move fast. Let’s collectively demonstrate to all constituents what success can look like.
