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Supply Chain Management Guide
Advice on supply chain management (Powerpoint Presentation).
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Ariba Technologies
Specializes in ORM (Operating Resource Management) which is more than simple e-procurement. While e-procurement focuses solely on MRO (maintenance, repair and operating supplies), Operating Resource Management helps streamline the management of all operating resources, including MRO, capital equipment, services, and travel and entertainment expenses, and other requiring approvals through internal business processes.
BidNet
Links vendors to state and local governments. They receive bids from more than 6,000 agencies and notify vendors that subscribe to their service of bids that match with their products or services.
Business Information Publications Ltd.
Official UK publisher of MoD contract information, and is recognised within government an expert on issues relating to European public procurement processes and applications.
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
The largest organization of its kind in Europe.
Commerce One
A global leader in business-to-business electronic procurement solutions. The Commerce Chain Solution by Commerce One dynamically links buying and supplying organizations into real-time trading communities.
CCSi - Credit Card Solutions, Inc.
Premier product is purchasing card software called "The P-Card Solution", enterprise client/server-based software that automates the entire purchasing card process, from card application, order placement, and product receipt through transaction reconciliation, record retention, and auditing.
DeveloPages
Product Development & Manufacturing Resources. For locating, evaluating and communicating with suppliers.
Direct Link USA
An interactive database linking you directly to the Purchasing, Procurement, and Materials Management departments of states, counties, cities, universities, and corporations.
DollarDays.com
A virtual warehouse of over 100,000 available products. Products can be purchased by the case at discounted pricing from many categories and sub-categories.
Electronic Buyers' News
The Internet newspaper for procurement and business management.
Government Procurement Magazine
Targets upper-level, public-sector purchasing officials through articles that cover best practices, projects, and methodology, as well as opportunities for professional growth.
InfoQuote
Developed by Infoworld Magazine. Get quotes from multiple computer vendors,
MARKETGATE-WAY
An e-commerce solution that introduces qualified vendors and manufacturers to large scale buying organizations from across the country and around the world. Separate sections for Consumer products, Industrial & Technology Products, and Agricultural products.
MNI Guide to U.S. Manufacturers
Online purchasing resource with Free, easy-to-use searchable database of 443,000 U.S. manufacturers and industrial suppliers. Search across more than 10,000 product categories and geographically across all 50 States. Endorsed by the American Purchasing Society.
Modern Purchasing Online
A publication of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada. Coverage includes articles on professional developement, management techniques, office technology, industrial concerns, transportation (and logistic issues), fleet management, plus new products and services.
Nahabit & Associates, Inc.
Producers of seminars for Purchasing & Supply Management.
Institute for Supply Management
A not-for-profit association that provides national and international leadership in purchasing and supply management research and education.
Ketera Technologies
A leading provider of "on demand" Spend Management solutions, providing companies with the applications and services needed to control and reduce corporate spending at a low cost of ownership. Since their founding in the Fall of 2002 Ketera has enabled more than 50 clients with their spend management initiatives and has processed more than $107B through it's spend management service.
National Association of State Procurement Officials
A non-profit organization through which member purchasing officials provide leadership in professional public purchasing, improve the quality of purchasing and procurement, exchange information, and cooperate to attain greater efficiency, economy, and customer satisfaction.
National Institute of Government Purchasing, Inc.
A non-profit organization chartered to provide education and technical assistance for those who spend taxpayers' dollars in the United States, Canada, and other nations. Dedicated to the establishment and maintenance of ethical standards and professionalism in public purchasing agencies.
National Purchasing Institute
Association of Governmental, Educational, Health Care, and Special Districts purchasing professionals.
procuri.com
Efficient procurement that offers buying leverage. Invite your suppliers to a competitive reverse auction environment using dynamic bidding. No-risk purchasing that offers extraordinary savings in both time and money.
Purchasing Management Association of Canada
Founded in 1920, the not-for-profit association currently has more than 7,000 purchasing and supply management professional members in 8 Provincial Institutes representing 52 branches across Canada.
Puridiom
Puridiom is an enterprise e-Procurement system designed for any size purchasing operations or specialty buying groups. Puridiom provides the most comprehensive solution to make your supply-chain management cost-efficient. Analyze and track trends in Purchasing to reign in and minimize maverick purchases. With hundreds of the Fortune 1000 companies as customers around the world, TSA's advanced solutions help support a wide variety and cross-section of American and international businesses.
Tenders Direct
Provides information on contracts published by government departments, local government and utility companies across Europe.
Terrecom.com
Purpose is to bring organizational buyers seeking a wide variety of goods and services together with organizational sellers seeking to provide those goods and services.
Verian Technologies
Provider of purchasing automation software.
Yantra Corporation
A leading developer of e-commerce ready supply chain execution software. Their product, pure commerce is an end to end fulfilment solution that manages the entire lifecycle of an order, from the moment the order is transacted, through the process of picking, packing and shipping the order to the customer and facilitating returns.