MARCH 2008

Wax Digital’s Easter electronic sourcing masterclass lifts the lid on our best kept secrets about what constitutes great eSourcing strategy and practice.

Every year our senior sourcing consultants help some of the world’s leading organisations transform their purchasing practices, and in just a couple of hours we’ll aim to show you – illustrated through a live client case study – how to identify savings sweet spots, how to construct events that drive maximum returns, how to avoid common (and not so common) sourcing mistakes, and much more besides.

In fact, we’ll tell you everything you need to know to enable your organisation to save millions on a spend of thousands in the next 12 months.

Places are very limited, so Click here to find out more and register now.

Blog Update : This months top 5

CBI warns of escalating procurement costs

Inflationary pressures and continued fears of an impending economic slowdown could drive procurement costs…

Retailers emphasise local sourcing

Procurement effectiveness isn't all about centralising contracts to secure best price…

Accurate forecasting is key to confidence

It seems even Ryanair, the stellar performer of the industry in recent years, can't quite shake…

SAP conjures spectre of integration

Faced with slow growth and saturation in its core markets, SAP has increasingly focused on…

Snipers infiltrate the purchasing battlefield

Since ebay made auctioning a household activity, millions of people around the world…


Wax Digital provides a Haven for Bourne Leisure Buyers

Bourne Leisure, owner of Haven, Warner Breaks and Butlins, has appointed Wax Digital to implement a new, on-demand purchase-to-pay solution that will help employees across the group find and order the right products, at the right prices, from the right suppliers.

The new system will ultimately allow 12,000 Bourne Leisure Group employees working at over 50 UK holiday sites to browse and order goods and services from approved suppliers via a central web portal, delivering considerable process efficiencies.

"The system, which we are deploying to Haven Holidays first, will capture all spend from the purchase of paper clips to flat screen televisions," said Simon Crawshaw, IT and Procurement Director at Bourne Leisure.

For further details click here


  

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

IWantSandy
While there are more calendar applications out there than there are days in the year, what many activities really demand is a personal prompter. Use e-mail, SMS, Twitter, or Jott to send a message to Sandy and she'll send you reminders for anything in a daily digest, in a text message, or as an event on your calendar. She even understands spoken English!.

MakeUseOf
MakeUseOf is a blog that delivers geek-free (well almost) information on all that's new on the web, so long as it meets three key criteria - it must be cool, free and useful. Want to find better software for designing a house, pimping your iPod or downloading video? It's all here.

LocateTV
Desperate to complete your DVD collection of classic Terry and June episodes? Settle an argument about episode 4, season 2 of Blakes 7? LocateTV gives you the lowdown on pretty much every TV show ever made, as well as where to find it on TV, online and on DVD.

 

18 MAR 08
A Landmark Procurement Event

Enjoy a continental breakfast with Wax Digital at the landmark Swiss Re building (The Gherkin) and take in the superb view over London's business district. This is a great opportunity to find out more about our unique proposition for financially de-risking the source-to-pay process.
Click here for more details.

Dashboards:

Dashboards - ever wondered what's going on in your organisation and in the world around you? We have recently developed a new advanced dashboard, based around our standard browser based front-end and offers almost unlimited access to information sources from multiple feeds.

Options include:

  • Tailored look and feel with the ability to move information sources around your dashboard to gain maximum benefit
  • KPI's - so you can see what's going on in your business
  • Dashboard information summarised from standard Wax Digital products
  • Auto links to info such as local weather, industry news, BBC
  • Standard library of information with links to Industry standard Messaging, Email and Social Networking Tools