Sponsors
A guide to the sponsors of this year's awards
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Ariba
Atos Consulting™
CPO Agenda
Hays Purchasing and Supply
RS
Ariba
Ariba, Inc. is the leading Enterprise Spend Management solutions provider. Ariba solutions are designed to specifically address the needs of the finance and procurement directors. The Ariba Spend Management solution provides a single point of visibility and control allowing companies to engage, manage, and leverage the entire spend life cycle from analysis, through sourcing, to procurement across the enterprise.
Today's procurement departments directly control only a percentage of an entire organisation's spending. The remainder of spend decisions are made at the department or end-user level independent of the procurement department's influence. This "front line" spending in every large enterprise represents a significant opportunity for procurement departments to drive bottom line results by better managing and negotiating that spend.
There are hundreds of examples of such front lines spending in a wide variety of complex spend categories including the largely untouched and unmanaged area of services (e.g Travel, Marketing, Facilities and Consulting services). It is in these areas that Ariba is now helping their customers to manage spend more effectively. Where organisations have previously only gained control and visibility of up to 20% of all their external spend - procurement directors can now hope to get over 80% of an organisations spend under management.
500 organisations worldwide use Ariba's solutions including, in the UK: AstraZeneca, British Airways, BSkyB, Diageo, HSBC, Johnson Matthey, National Grid Transco, Lloyds TSB, Smiths Group, Unilever and Zurich Financial Services. For more information on Ariba, please email infouk@ariba.com, call 0808 144 1606 or visit our website at http://www.ariba.com/
Atos Consulting™
Achieving and sustaining world-class procurement is extremely challenging. Atos Consulting understands that
embedding best practice procurement within your business and delivering year-on-year measurable value requires
a significant performance improvement and cultural change. That is why we provide our clients with proven
solutions that deliver benefits and help achieve this step-change in performance. Our approach is both pragmatic
and transformational, combined with innovative change management and a distinctive ‘one-team’ engagement style.
Our award-winning Procurement Transformation team provides tailored solutions to support your needs, be they defining your procurement strategy, advice on sourcing strategies, management of customer and strategic supplier relationships, advanced analytics and intelligence, or developing and retaining procurement talent.
Our track record includes delivery of the largest procurement transformation programme in Europe, at the Ministry of Defence (MOD), where we have jointly delivered £300m cash savings to date. Atos Consulting has worked closely with the MOD to introduce a new procurement organisation structure, new procurement strategies and systems, as well as transferring skills to over 5,000 client staff by delivering over 32,000 hours of professional procurement training.
This highly successful programme won the prestigious CIPS Supply Management Award for the Best Public Procurement Project, recognising excellence in the field of purchasing and supply management.
"The award for the Best Public Procurement Project is testament to the tremendous success of this partnering project and the dedication of the teams from the MOD and Atos Consulting. It has provided us with the skills, processes and the knowledge to develop a sustainable organisation able to continue with this programme." Les Sigrist, Director Logistics Procurement Support, MOD.
Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. Its business is turning client vision into results through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed operations. The company’s annual revenues are EUR 5.4 billion and it employs over 50,000 people in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international blue-chip companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Euronext Market Solutions, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.
Atos Consulting, the global consulting practice of Atos Origin, is a leading provider of business, process and technology consulting services. With more than 2,500 staff globally, it focuses on delivering proven, pragmatic solutions to the telecom, manufacturing, financial services and public sectors.
For more information visit: www.atosorigin.com
CPO Agenda
CPO Agenda is the international business review for procurement leaders. It is read by senior purchasing, sourcing and supply management executives in major organisations worldwide and provides them with an unrivalled mix of practical, insightful, objective and thought-provoking articles written by leading practitioners and other specialists in this field. Topics covered regularly include leadership, business strategy, collaboration, supplier relationship management, globalisation, people and performance management, outsourcing and technology.
Published quarterly, it is available by annual subscription and, as well as the print edition, subscribers get exclusive access to all the articles published since CPO Agenda launched in spring 2005. To place your order call 020 8950 9117 or go to www.cpoagenda.com/subscribe.
Hays Purchasing and Supply
Hays Purchasing & Supply is leading the way as the UK's number one specialist purchasing and supply chain
recruitment consultancy. With an unrivalled network of UK offices and specialist teams recruiting for commerce,
industry, senior appointments, interim managers and public services we bring unrivalled geographic coverage,
market knowledge and recruitment expertise to all employers and jobseekers within the sector.
Our specialist consultants have a detailed understanding of the opportunities and market forces within their specialist area and we appreciate the specific issues that concern those pursuing career moves, seeking their next assignment or undertaking recruitment activity. Our consultative approach, and investment in specialist sectors ensures we deliver tailored and outstanding results. The recent addition of a dedicated Senior Appointments team to our portfolio provides a comprehensive range of sourcing and selection services at a senior management and director level.
If you are looking to build your team, or to advance your own career within the profession, e-mail us , visit www.Hays.com/pas or speak to us in strictest confidence on 0870 600 3334.
RS
Take control of your low value/high volume purchases with RS
RS is a global industrial supplier, serving engineers and purchasers in 160 countries world-wide with electrical, electronic, Health and Safety, IT, Tools and Mechanical products. Our customers have an unrivalled product choice, with support and reliability underpinned by our relentless commitment to service.
By taking advantage of the latest technology we have developed a number of e-commerce options to cut the cost and speed the process of purchasing industrial supplies.
RS Online - rswww.com - The platform from which all our e-commerce capability is leveraged. RS Online enables you to find and order the products you need quickly. Integrated with our business systems you have real time access to the very latest stock availability, products and prices.
PurchasingManager - a free e-procurement tool Developed by RS, PurchasingManager is a customisable, e-procurement management tool. It allows you to stay in control while nominated users enjoy the benefits of ordering online without the need to raise paperwork.
RS e-procurement - With hundreds of e-procurement solutions worldwide, we have proven expertise in the field of e-procurement integration.
In addition to our ecommerce solutions we can support your businesses purchasing needs through a wide range of services including managed stock replenishment and flexible pricing on all your large orders
What ever your purchasing needs we can work with you to provide the right solution for your business.
For more information on any of our e-commerce and other purchasing solutions visit http://rswww.com/purchasing