Platinum Sponsor and Advisory Board Member
In today’s economic climate, the demands on Procurement to drive shareholder value and manage the cost base are greater than ever. Our global team of procurement practitioners work side by side with our clients to help them deliver value and capability, by providing them with tailored solutions ranging from strategic partnering and cost focused initiatives through to delivery of transformation programmes. This tailored approach matches our clients unique business needs and helps them to get more from procurement and from their suppliers. Our team are all experienced consulting practitioners with many years of line management, the value of which is demonstrated by the number of awards won both by ourselves and our clients. Atos Consulting, the global consulting practice of Atos Origin, is a leading provider of business, process and technology services. With more than 2,500 staff globally, it focuses on delivering innovative solutions and business change to the public and public sectors. For more information visit: http://www.uk.atosconsulting.com/en-uk/about_us/our_services/procurement_transformation/
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Gold Sponsors
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Efficio is a results-focused procurement consultancy, with a track record for helping leading organisations achieve more value from their procurement. Whether the challenge is delivering significant savings to the bottom line or managing suppliers to create value for the longer term, Efficio provides a range of client-tailored services including:
Made up of experienced professionals with a blue-chip consultancy heritage, Efficio combines the credentials of a top tier firm, with the depth of expertise and execution of a flexible niche player. With offices in the UK and Germany, and a growing operation in the USA, we service clients from a broad range of sectors throughout Europe and the United States. To learn more, please visit www.efficioconsulting.com |
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Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of spend management solutions helping companies realise rapid and sustainable bottom line results. More than a tactical process, spend management is a journey. Some companies leverage a single solution to drive savings, such as sourcing of direct materials. Others With Ariba, companies have access to a complete range of technology and best-practice processes they can leverage across direct and indirect materials, services, and MRO spend. Offered in a variety of delivery modes, including hosted, on-demand, on premises, or outsourced, Ariba’s solutions make it fast, easy, and affordable for companies of all types and sizes to adopt and realize the value of spend management. More than 550 companies of all sizes across all industries leverage Ariba’s solutions to source more than $120 billion in direct and indirect materials, services, and MRO each year. |
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Buy.O Procurement is an international consulting company fully dedicated to procurement. We reveal and boost company’s performance through procurement excellence. Buy.O Procurement is part of Buy.O Group, worldwide organization aimed at building high value relationship with customers, suppliers and strategic partners. |
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Silver Sponsors
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CombineNet is an advanced sourcing technology company that is changing the way companies are able to source and make decisions. The company has developed a method for applying advanced optimization science to complex sourcing categories and allocation problems. This allows CombineNet to deliver the absolute best total cost of goods and services based on the buying organization's unique business needs. At the same time, it significantly increases the speed and efficiency of the sourcing cycle. CombineNet blends the discipline and ingenuity of cutting-edge science and applied mathematics with a sophisticated understanding of sourcing best practices in order to create solutions for the escalating challenges of the global marketplace. From direct and indirect material sourcing to transportation and a full range of services, CombineNet opens new doors to a new world of sourcing. |
Award Sponsor
Achilles is the leading supplier of services for sustainable procurement, delivering a wide range of supplier management and business solutions to hundreds of the world’s biggest companies.
Our services help organisations to improve the efficiency of their procurement cycles, and manage commercial, health, safety, environment and CSR-related risks throughout their supply chains.
Achilles establishes and supports buyer-supplier communities from a range of industry sectors, creating unique, strong, global networks.
Our proven collaborative, insightful and neutral approach helps organisations access business opportunities and reduce risk in the supply chain. Dedicated to providing services and tools to identify, qualify, evaluate and monitor suppliers, our portfolio includes supplier management schemes, a unique total supplier management solution, performance feedback, auditing, benchmarking, and document control.
We’re dedicated to delivering equal treatment and total objectivity to thousands of buyers and suppliers, and our principles are fast becoming the recognised standard in every sector we serve.
Sustainability Sponsor
PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 146,000 people in 150 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.
PricewaterhouseCoopers have a 15 year track record in sustainability and climate change issues. We can help you to understand which issues will have the greatest impact on your business. We assist you in building a coherent strategy to address them, and then support you through the often complex organisational changes needed to put your strategy in place.
For further details please contact Erica Hauver on 020 7212 6888
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Quadrem is a global world provider of spend management, purchasing and procurement solutions. Our local professionals will accompany your strategic initiatives in optimizing your processes and identify saving opportunities. Quadrem offers a wide range of tools and professionals services to automate all or parts of your procurement processes; from finding new suppliers to electronic negotiations, from internal catalogues purchases to supplier invoicing and long term electronic archiving. Making sure the suppliers respond, connect and transact with you is Quadrem’s core business |
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OutSystems is a software company providing the industry leading All-in-One Agile Platform for rapid delivery and management of web business applications that are built for continuous change. Unlike traditional approaches, companies use the OutSystems Platform to deliver web business applications on-time and on-budget in weeks rather than months or years. The platform provides IT Management complete control and visibility over the application delivery process without compromising the flexibility required to address continuous business change. The combination of OutSystems' Platform and Methodology results in applications that continuously reflect evolving business needs, bridging the gap between IT and business across the entire application life cycle. Since it was first introduced in 2001, the OutSystems Platform has been used to successfully develop, integrate, deploy and manage agile web business applications in over 4000 IT environments across 138 countries. |
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The Smart Cube is an international professional services firm that specializes in delivering High Value and Customized Business Research and Analysis. We play at the top end of the Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) value chain. We have delivered over 3000 studies to leading corporations spanning every major industry across most countries in the world. In the Supply Chain space, The Smart Cube provides customized procurement and supply chain research. In line with our emphasis on providing insight and not simply data, we integrate in-depth primary and secondary research to help our clients' sourcing and supply chain analysis needs. To find out more please visit us at www.thesmartcube.com or call our UK offices at +44 208 323 8040. |
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Purspective: Training & Workshops Our purpose is to be the partner global companies rely on to train and develop their purchasing professionals. This is achieved through global know-how, world-class trainers and inspiring and challenging programs. By doing so, we help our customers developing their human resources and developing supply management into a competitive advantage. Purspective is the international arm of NEVI, the Dutch Association for Purchasing Management. For more information, check our website: www.purspective.com |
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Basware is the global leader in purchase to pay solutions with more than 1,200 customers and 650,000 users in over 50 countries around the world. Basware solutions automate business-critical financial processes and deliver value by providing compliance and control, as well as fast return on investment. Basware Procurement solutions cover the entire procurement process from sourcing and contract management to purchase requisition creation and supplier connectivity. Basware Procurement Solutions allow your organization to achieve sourcing savings, increase spend control and compliancy, leverage contracts, and improve your organization’s competitiveness through more efficient purchasing. Basware solutions are distributed and implemented in Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific through an extensive network of Basware offices and business partners. In 2007, net sales reached EUR 73 million. The growth target for net sales for 2008 is 15–25%. Founded in 1985, Basware Corporation is a public company listed on the Nordic Exchange Helsinki. www.basware.com |
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Barclaycard Business is proud to be a part of ProcureCon 2008. As Visa Europe’s number 1 issuer of commercial cards Barclaycard Business has over 30 years of experience in facilitating business payments and providing tailored spend data to approximately 145,000 customers of varying sizes. The Barclaycard Business Purchasing solution significantly reduces the number of steps in your buying process – saving you time and lowering your administration costs. Processing time is reduced by up to 80%*, paper use by up to 90%* and your staff are free to concentrate on more strategic, high value procurement. With any payment method wide acceptance is key, our Visa backed solution has unrivalled global acceptance and with around 12,500 Visa suppliers in the UK who provide electronic invoices you can be sure of maximising the benefits. Our team will work with you to identify and recruit any of your large suppliers who may not already accept cards. Come and see us a ProcureCon 2008 to find out how we can help or go online to find out more at http://www.barclaycardbusiness.co.uk/large_organisations.html *Source : Feedback from Visa merchant service customers |
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