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Competuition: Teach Competition to Your Procurement Process

by Pascal Perry ... and procedures that US federal agencies should follow when soliciting goods, products, services, or construction from qualified suppliers (bids or proposals). ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/TechnologySelections/2006/06/research_notes/MI_TS_PP_06_14_06_1.asp - 19k - 2006-06-14 Summary: High-profile corporate scandal has resulted in laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to monitor business practices. To help safeguard against unethical practices during procurement, entities are also adopting elements from the US Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).

Federal Procurement Essentials: Sealed Bidding

by Pascal Perry ... This contracting method solicits (by means of a document called invitation for bid [IFB]) prospective providers for submitting offers, called sealed bids. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2006/06/research_notes/TU_EV_PP_06_22_06_1.asp - 24k - 2006-06-22 Summary: Selling to the government can bring new life to contract winners, particularly small and medium businesses. In fact, organizations that understand and leverage federal acquisition methods and processes can grow from scratch to a profitable bottom line, whatever their size.

Examples Of How Some Mid-Market Vendors Might Remain Within The ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Amid extensively reported controversial takeover bids & counter bids, lawsuits & counter lawsuits tug-of -wars amongst the three renowned Tier 1 application ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/07/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_07_16_03_1.asp - 13k - 2003-07-16 Summary: While the ongoing consolidation frenzy is by no means the end of smaller vendors, the number of survivors will certainly be only a few dozen. Amid these ongoing seismic consolidation tremors, smaller application vendors are left with few choices: going private under a wealthy financial backer’s wing th

Paradoxes of Software Estimation

by Murali Chemuturi ... This will facilitate further work. Paradox of Offering Fixed Bids. Many services offer fixed bids—there's nothing peculiar about that. ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/TechnologySelections/2006/08/research_notes/MI_TS_XMC_08_18_06_1.asp - 25k - 2006-08-18 Summary: Software development has spawned an independent industry in its own right. But the processes of asking for service, offering service, and pricing are all somewhat haphazard. Perhaps it's time to focus efforts on resolving the key paradoxes of software estimation.

Maximizing Potential Benefits in Reverse Auctions

by Amitava and Noorani Subramanian Hariharan ... The logic is quite simple: Vendors start off with a preset initial bid price, and reduce their bids by multiples of the bid decrement value. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2007/08/research_notes/TU_SC_XA_08_31_07_1.asp - 24k - 2007-08-31 Summary: Reverse auction (RA) has emerged as a strategic tool for consumer packaged goods companies pursuing cost efficiencies in their sourcing programs. This article presents a framework to structure and gain maximum mileage out of the RA process.

Stemming the Loss of Knowledge Capital: A Business Fix for ...

by Christina Park and Wayne Thompson ... Knowing the estimates from similar projects is valuable, as it enables manufacturers to respond to more bids, reuse the information to build better quotes, and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/PLM/2007/11/research_notes/MN_PL_CP_11_05_07_1.asp - 16k - 2007-11-05 Summary: The clock is ticking for manufacturers to come up with a solution to the ongoing loss of knowledge capital. Their best hope lies in introducing knowledge management strategies across the enterprise—before it’s too late.

Portal Strategy: One Vendor's Story and What It Means to You

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... highest-level portal framework, rather than to waste precious and scarce resources to "reinvent the wheel." This approach should help their bids to increase ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/10/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_10_05_05_1.asp - 15k - 2005-10-05 Summary: Epicor is working with Microsoft so that portal adopters can benefit from SharePoint's models and access to other enterprise data.

New Dimensions in EC and SCM Part 4: Using E-Procurement to ...

by Scott A. Elliff ... Now, however, they can occur in real time with a worldwide supply base bidding interactively and with visibility of other supplier bids, until a winner emerges ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2001/02/research_notes/MI_EC_XSE_02_23_01_1.asp - 19k - 2001-02-23 Summary: A straightforward way to drive prices down and obtain increased supplier attention is to leverage total purchasing volume through Internet-based auctions. This part addresses the implications of using e-procurement to Leverage Volume, including leveraging volume through outsourcing.

Manugistics Indulges In The Open M&A Season

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... of privately-held Digital Freight, a Lexington, KY-based provider of collaborative logistics solutions that facilitate online, real-time bids for global ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2002/06/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_06_04_02_1.asp - 20k - 2002-06-04 Summary: Does Manugistics’ acquisition of a small ERP vendor confirms a further degree of integration and convergence between ERP, SCM and CRM applications in 2002 and beyond, with SCM and CRM moving towards the transactional aspects that have until lately been the prerogative of ERP?

Zooming into an Inventory Free Flow

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... All target price bids are answered within twenty-four hours. If multiple bids for the same inventory are received within a twenty ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2007/01/research_notes/VN_SC_PJ_01_30_07_1.asp - 32k - 2007-01-30 Summary: FreeFlow, a provider of business services with a patented technology, aims to help companies improve product life cycle profitability by providing a unique, online auction platform where companies can reduce their at-risk and excess inventory.