eSourcing 

http://site.agentrics.com/en/solutions/global-sourcing-procurement


Global Sourcing & Procurement optimizes, standardizes, automates and integrates the management and execution of sourcing processes and supply strategies. This enables collaboration among customers, external and internal business partners and suppliers for improvements, including:

• Increased efficiency of purchasing teams and departments;
• Meaningful and sustainable results;
• Enhanced competitive intelligence.

By streamlining the sourcing process and eliminating complexities through full integration, the customer is able to have complete internal and supplier adoption to generate significant savings for a sustainable procurement process year after year. This process partners with immediate time to savings, usually realized with the completion of the first two sourcing events, to bring short term savings and long term value.

The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2011

http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=213740

Key Findings

• The Top 5 include three mainstays — Apple, Dell and P&G — and two that joined the list for the first time last year—Research In Motion (RIM) and Amazon.
• Four new companies joined the list this year: Nestle, Starbucks, 3M and Kraft Foods.
• Four key themes emerged this year among the leaders, including how they deal with volatility, their approaches to value chain network integration, their focus on sustainable execution and their abilities to orchestrate.

Recommendations

• Develop supply chain processes and methodologies throughout your trading partner network that will provide the resiliency to deliver predictable results in the face of ongoing volatility.
• Supplement a clearly articulated, long-term value chain vision with strong, agile, and sustainable execution capabilities. Push your team to think differently and go beyond conventional wisdom to push the boundaries on performance levels.
• Measure your supply chain as your customers experience it. Develop the capability to internalize customer needs, and proactively build customer feedback into your supply chain design.
• Step back and consider the basic supply chain capabilities you need, as well as the innovations that will differentiate your performance. Ensure the sustainability of your efforts and initiatives through a constant focus on governance, change management and culture.