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.).
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 Savings Opportunities Within Indirect Procurement As the summer is coming to a close, we wanted to provide our subscribers both insight from our 2011 Indirect Procurement Survey and relate those findings to some of the key activities we see in the market. Subscribers who download this position piece will gain valuable insight to: What... Read the full article here
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 »
Executive Summary 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. This article summarizes the series while giving the reader a critical look at building world-class supplier management programs. About Velocity® Each issue contains exclusive, in-depth articles on topics such as... 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 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 »
Collaborating with Suppliers to Create New Value 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 chain managers... Read the full article here
September 13th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
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 has begun to pay more attention to supplier partnership performance metrics. This is a welcome development, for as... Read the full article here
July 28th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
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 the two most important tools or solutions for supply-chain management and purchasing. E-procurement and supply-chain management systems primarily... Read the full article here
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
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 repeated discounts. But as deals with suppliers have matured and the economy stays unstable, negotiators are finding it increasingly difficult to... 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 »
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 client companies. The VOP model was especially effective for institutions that consumed a significant number of staffing and professional services from... Read the full article here
March 8th, 2009 | Posted in White Papers | 1 Comment »
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 a local pauper who immediately began to work the fields. One day the pauper stopped his plow to drink from the... Read the full article here
October 8th, 2008 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
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 workers, independent contractors, and consultants) who provided just-in-time productivity to corporations at an hourly or daily cost. // Download All Whitepapers... Read the full article here
July 8th, 2008 | Posted in White Papers | No Comments »
Turn up the VOLUME: How to Become a Procurement Rock Star