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By the end of 2014, eProcurement is a definite Must-Have. eProcurement has transformed enterprises, improving corporate efficiency and collaboration with just skeletal staff. Web-based solutions make deployment to hundreds of users quick and simple. Utilization is quick – leading to rapid ROI. eCommerce shopping with your major suppliers, supplier catalog management, and rules-based approval routing are…

The cost of managing paper! Companies spend more than $200 billion each year on office paper expenditures. Digitizing business processes to connect people via the Cloud, mobile devices, and social networks can improve overall corporate efficiency. There is the money saved on paper – some 10,000 pages a year per office worker. But more importantly, companies…

As the Harvard Business Review notes in a classic paper on global manufacturing strategy, the chief goal is to manage large differences at the border. Manufacturers can do this through global process standardization. Are you confident in your company’s process standardization? Collaboration with ISS and its Business Process Orientation Benchmarking Assessment is one way to…

  U.S. manufacturing continues to expand with 15 consecutive months of growth, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). As one manufacturer reported, “Business is solid…Awesome!” As the manufacturing sector grows, the clear winners in the race for market share will be those with the most efficient and connected organizations. The simplest way to…

Well, it was almost instant. That was the first message sent by Morse’s telegraph system in 1844. Prior to that, communication could take months and connectivity beyond one’s town was about nonexistent. Today’s connectivity power of the Internet can put manufacturers in touch with suppliers and buyers anywhere in the world at any moment. Our…

This past summer, the University of Louisville learned the hard way what can happen with financial process controls are lax or MIA: six employees were accused with taking school money or grant funds when an audit uncovered evidence of embezzlement. In our experience, companies that have the right business process optimization can improve their financial controls,…