Risks concerning internal buy-ins and negotiating positions

Too often, a decision is made to jump from the shortlist of three or four suppliers directly to one, and then start negotiating the contract. Has this happened in your company?

Learn various approaches to vendor management and establish metrics to monitor outsourcing relationship’s results.

Register now for GEP and Forrester’s one-hour webinar on April 25, 2012 and understand – “Why Supplier Risk and Performance Management Matters to Business”

Companies can get more value out of procurement outsourcing by placing more value on vendor management.

GEP and Everest Group Webinar: Top 10 Best Practices in Procurement Outsourcing

  Sourcing business with a strategic partner is common, especially where both businesses are in similar industries and where each other’s products and services are complementary. An example is where an IT services company may provide service to an IT hardware company. The services company may also buy that IT hardware for their company, and [...]

Does reciprocity become the standard that any large customer of yours should now expect?

Full service procurement outsourcing providers may offer P-Card program management as a specialized service

  In today’s environment the decision to outsource procurement brings about several changes within an enterprise and its procurement function. Thought leaders and industry practitioners have written about and discussed at length, the significance of instituting a change management process in general and specifically, in business situations that call for outsourcing solutions.   Benefits from [...]