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The fundamental question around procurement management is whether is saves organizations money? At GlobalServe we have consistently helped our customers save between 15%-30% of their annual IT budgets through the effective development and implementation of a global procurement management process. Our customers consolidate buying power by driving spend through GlobalServe's supply chain and analytics thereby optimizing service levels and pricing of products and services.
Beyond the hard costs, organizations are able to save valuable time while realigning their human resources to better serve more strategic efforts. With GlobalServe's core technology, OneSource, and its associated GlobalServe Procure module, many of the steps in purchasing are made simple, quick and automated, helping organizations run the process faster and smoother. For large organizations who undertake distributed purchasing decisions through local or regional buyers the OneSource Procure system enables them to retain this structure. Where tasks are repeated across groups a single system such as GlobalServe often provides the means to centralize and collapse certain functions thereby reducing the requirements of human resources undertaking similar job functions in different locations.
For organizations to truly leverage the benefits of procurement management, companies must be willing to undertake some structural, technological, personnel and general inertia changes. Without these changes procurement management will be unable to yield effective returns.
A key value differentiator for the GlobalServe procurement management solution, is the integrated supply chain. GlobalServe's procurement management enables organizations to integrate their sourcing and service requirements through a GlobalServe validated and managed supply chain. Unlike pure technology solutions we bring to our customers the sourcing and delivery capability of over 300 suppliers around the world. Though customers utilizing our procurement management solution have the ability to onboard their existing suppliers, we at GlobalServe have strong local in-country alternatives available to plug any gaps that might exists in our customer's supply chain.
To develop and manage an effective supply chain, organizations have the right set of skills. At GlobalServe we allow companies to focus on their core business by providing our customers with procurement programs run and managed by our own resources. This allows our customers to reallocate internal resources to efforts that are more strategic and in-line with the core business proposition. Additionally, given GlobalServe resources are trained in dealing with supply chain partners the experience both for the service and product provider, as well as end customer is effectively managed, providing all constituents within the supplier buyer eco-system with a comfortable medium in which to conduct business.
The GlobalServe procurement management solution caters to the IT Asset and Service management realm. This focus is deliberate and enables GlobalServe to retain, develop and improve upon a core skill set. Though our solution works in a distributed procurement approach, mature procurement solutions are often managed and enforced centrally. A distributed approach is often too costly and deep specialization is not a pre-requisite for effective IT procurement in most organizations. Therefore decision making is often fraught with poor choices around types of suppliers and products. With GlobalServe, we have the deep specialization around IT Asset and Service management that will enable our customers to make the rights decisions.
Tracking suppliers, using reverse auctions, and evaluating costs are all other important elements of a procurement management system. GlobalServe provides our customers with state of the art purchasing systems integrated with a service and supply chain management system. By tracking suppliers, our customers are able to determine whether or not their supply chain is delivering up to buyer expectations. Through reverse auctions and RFIs, buyers are able to keep product and services prices lower while selecting from a wide array of potential suppliers. Finally, evaluating costs prevents companies from losing sight of the biggest benefit of procurement management: its cost-effectiveness.
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