Benchmarking

Savings for Corporate Domestic Air Travel vs published prices on downward slide

  Are travel management companies causing increased travel costs? One of the measures used for benchmarking Corporate Air travel is the average savings achieved against the published fares and, while organisations recognise that this savings methodology is not necessarily the best, it has been applied consistently and is useful to track savings over time. The […]

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Making the most of Supply Market Intelligence Information

“Most procurement departments have have to deliver savings on an ever-increasing portfolio of goods and services with too few skilled resources,” says Alan Low, MD of procurement benchmarking service Purchasing Index (PI). “Compounding the problem of time is the culture of consensus which results in a high number of daily meetings and workshops.” He tells

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Does aggregation really lead to lower prices?

The idea that greater purchasing power delivers lower prices may be accepted wisdom in procurement circles, but it doesn’t always add up writes Alan Low, MD of Purchasing Index. The simple fact is that the “Viking” (volume is king) model, applied ad infinitum to B2B and B2G Purchasing, has not delivered consistently better prices than

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Only 30% of promised Procurement savings actually achieved – Time to cut the budget?

“How an organisation measures procurement savings is usually a topic of considerable debate. Of equal interest is “How does Procurement influence / make the savings happen?” says Alan Low of Purchasing Index. “Savings that are promised but not actually realised are becoming increasingly “hot” topics for senior management (and for Procurement).” He mentions a recent

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Telephony – new era technology saves company R20m in phone costs.

“The last few years’ benchmarks of the local business cell-phone market indicated high costs and a lack of substantial innovation. Now, however, technology is converging and the distinction between voice and data transmission are blurring. These new products promise substantial cost saving opportunities,” Alan Low, Managing Director of Purchasing Index, told Smart Procurement.

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Update: New developments in the “Catering Services” marketplace.

“After benchmarking staff catering for a number of years some interesting changes have occured that are affecting this crucial support service,” says Alan Low of Purchasing index. “At the turn of the century many organizations had outsourced staff catering usually to one of the better known service providers, e.g. Royal, KKS, Fedics, etc. who usually

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New procurement best practices Benchmark Service launched

Purchasing Index is launching its international Procuretrak service locally, aimed at benchmarking Procurement leading practices in increasing detail. The attached graph compares the amount of spend controlled by purchasing to best in class companies. Alan Low, Managing Director at Purchasing Index told Smart Procurement that” “Updated reports every 6 months, incorporating participating members’ own information,

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Are you getting the best prices in a “downward” cycle? PC market update.

In a cyclical market where prices are going up or down, how do you know when your organisation is getting a good deal from a supplier? The graph (click on the image to view it) shows what happened to one major UK organisation over a six and a half year period as the prices in

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