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.).
HCMWorks 2012 Indirect Procurement Survey Indicates Need for Change! HCMWorks 2012 Indirect Procurement Survey reached a new high in participation and delivers information that suggests a broad based need for change within peer company procurement divisions if the desired outcomes are to be achieved. What sort of insight does the 2012 survey deliver? In conjunction... Read the full article here
May 8th, 2012 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
It is essential that individuals working with managed services providers (MSPs), particularly those who own managed services contracts, have a clear understanding of what these teams do, why, and what to focus on when evaluating performance. This white paper aims to answer all of these questions clearly and concisely. Three Main Reasons Why Companies Choose... Read the full article here
April 30th, 2012 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Turn up the VOLUME: How to Become a Procurement Rock Star This position paper takes our readers through the common denominator that can assist procurement executives to play like a Rock Star. Learn how companies like Salesforce.com and Rent-a-Center pushed aside the normal procurement “analysis to paralysis” and by taking one simple approach revolutionized their... Read the full article here
December 14th, 2011 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Identifying Indirect Procurement Savings Opportunities. This whitepaper looks at barriers to entry in your indirect procurement strategy and gaining traction in key indirect categories
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September 1st, 2011 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
2011 Indirect Procurement Survey Results Back by popular demand, our 2010 Survey results gave our readers tremendous insight into the untapped opportunity into indirect services spending, savings and behaviors. The latest results in the Roadmap to Success Series will give readers more deep insight into the areas of indirect services procurement and get a peer... Read the full article here
May 23rd, 2011 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Building World-Class Supplier Management Programs This article summarizes the series while giving the reader a critical look at building world-class supplier management programs. Velocity®, SAMA’s (Strategic Account Management Association) quarterly magazine published a consolidation article of HCMWorks’ Kimberly Smokey’s Blue Print Series on Supplier Management Programs. About Velocity® Each issue contains exclusive, in-depth articles on... Read the full article here
May 5th, 2011 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Learn how a large North American telecommunications company and HCMWorks implemented an aggressive contingent labor management program that saved the company over $32M in year one year and over $70M over 4 years in contigent labour costs.... Read the full article here
December 10th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Supplier Relationship Management: Create New Value with Supplier Collaboration Readers will learn that by fostering collaboration both within their firms and with outside business partners, companies will be better equipped to drive growth through increased productivity and innovation. . . In the final installment of our Supplier Management “Blueprint” series, Kimberly Smokey challenges senior supply... Read the full article here
September 13th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Six principles to implement supplier management programs, with a focus on supplier partnership performance metrics.... Read the full article here
July 28th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Important Tools or Solutions For Supply Chain Management/Purchasing: Evolving trends in partnering and e-procurement are delivering cost savings and efficiencies in indirect procurement and supply chain management.... Read the full article here
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Segmenting the Supply Base to Improve Resource Allocation Buyers face continued pressure from their companies to continue to drive down costs, they are increasingly resorting to high-pressure tactics to squeeze more concessions out of suppliers. Procurement has played a key role in meeting their companies’ ambitious cost-cutting targets over the past several years. Utilizing recurring negotiations... Read the full article here
May 8th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
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 operational expenditures and provide meaningful savings, while concurrently ensuring operational and productivity efficiencies. To accomplish this, HCMWorks, an emerging leader in... Read the full article here
February 1st, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
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 adopt a different view of indirect services expenditures and their relationship to a company’s Total Cost of Productivity. The categories that comprise... Read the full article here
January 28th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Predicting the future of human capital management after hearing news of "crisis in labor", "the greatest economic crisis", "world financial crisis" and "the economic crisis of 2009".... Read the full article here
April 1st, 2009 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
The Value of Truly Vendor-Neutral Managed Service Programs Is your Managed Service Provider (MSP) or Vendor Management System (VMS) serving your needs? 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 client companies. The VOP... Read the full article here
March 8th, 2009 | Posted in White Papers | 1 Comment »
HCMWorks Whitepaper: Find Procurement Savings Now Within Your Existing Procurement Process. Improve procurement efficiency and procurement spending.... Read the full article here
October 8th, 2008 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
How the Staffing Industry Has Shaped Current Hiring Practices The staffing industry has been shaping hiring practices since post WWll in ways that you might not be aware of. How is this affecting your company today? Are you current with the practices that will serve you best in these challenging economic conditions? There’s no doubt that... Read the full article here
July 8th, 2008 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
HCMWorks 2012 Indirect Procurement Survey Indicates Need for Change!