JANUARY 2008

Introduce sustainable purchasing
to your business

Most businesses have given serious consideration to becoming more environmentally-friendly in recent years, but to senior management concerned with the bottom line 'green' can often come at a premium.

To help out, Wax Digital has launched a programme that advises organisations on how to buy products and services with both the environment and cost in mind.

It proves that going green doesn't have to be expensive - it's just a case of finding where else you can make savings in your business to offset the cost of becoming carbon neutral.

For further details click here

Blog Update : This month's top 5

Purchasing gradually goes green

A great indicator of just how high profile a trend has become is the number of competing terms it attracts…

But your employees don't believe you!

In a post last month I made the claim that "as with many things in life…

Weathering the credit crunch storm

With the average price of a litre of diesel nudging £1.10 at the pumps…

eSourcing stays out in the cold

While technology, process and understanding may have come a long way in the world of eSourcing…

Take advantage of trying times

In the face of what appears to be an overwhelming consensus of opinion that we are in for a tough year economically…


Ceva Logistics chooses Wax Digital European sourcing solution

Wax Digital recently announced that it has contractually agreed to supply a global eSourcing solution to CEVA, one of the world's leading integrated logistics providers.

The new system will deliver significant business benefit for CEVA worldwide, automating the strategic sourcing process through innovative technologies; from creating and managing electronic tender documents to holding online auction events.

Drawing on Wax Digital's technology and expertise, CEVA expects to drive best-value on goods and services sourced across the enterprise, and to realise considerable process efficiencies and transparencies throughout the sourcing lifecycle.

For further details click here


 

Liven up your lunch break with few nuggets from the wide world of the web.

No green themed newsletter would be complete without reference to a panda, and it's only fitting that ours helps out with data security too (so long as it is very small bits of data on very small pieces of paper). Take a look at the panda shredder on technabob.

The latest hot property from the marketing department at Apple, the MacBook Air, has got style-conscious geeks the world over frothing with excitement. Now even Greenpeace have got in on the act, saying: "As a mercury and arsenic free laptop it exceeds European Standards and raises the bar for the rest of the industry." See the ad for it here.

And finally, a chance to travel the world without so much as a trace of carbon footprint. Here's a very addictive little interactive quiz from Travelpod.com that reaches the places other quizzes can't.

 

7TH FEB 08
The 4th National Public Sector Procurement Conference 2008

Visit Wax Digital at the City of Manchester Stadium to find out more about our unique product offerings as well as networking with other purchasing professionals from across the public sector.
Click here for more details.


12th/13th FEB 08
eWorld Purchasing and Supply

Wax Digital will be exhibiting at the eWorld event, centrally located at the Connaught Rooms in London's Covent Garden. Visit us at stand 9 for details about Wax Digital's unique proposition for financially de-risking the source-to-pay process.
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Ajax enhances Wax Digital applications

Wax Digital's most recent product releases feature a very useful new technology called Ajax, allowing us to further enhance the user experience for users of our web-based application set.

Ajax (asynchronous java script and xml) allows web pages to exchange small amounts of data with the server "behind the scenes" so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user performs an action. The result is increased performance and an even better user experience.

We're delighted to welcome: