PC benchmark - 'The R / $ conundrum'
SmartProcurement is pleased to bring you the newly published edition of the Purchasing Index (PI) Newsletter for Procurement Professionals.‘Back to the future’ – technology edition
"Every user preference has a commercial consequence.”
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Part 3: The ABC of Managing the Telecommunications Commodity Group
This is the last article in a series of articles brought to you by SmartProcurement dealing with the ABC of managing your organisation's telecommunications costs efficiently. Areas to be covered include:- A - Awareness: Being fully informed on this complex and highly technical services commodity group.
- B - Business Communications: What are the requirements for your organisation? Does your present Information & Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure meet the bill?
- C - Cut the Cost: Are you getting enough 'bang for your buck', or are you being over-charged due to the inefficiencies and confusion that are rife in this industry?
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The ABC of Managing the Telecommunications Commodity Group: What you need to know - Part 2
This is the second in a series of articles brought to you by SmartProcurement dealing with the ABC of managing your organisation's telecommunications costs efficiently. Areas to be covered include:- A - Awareness: Being fully informed on this complex and highly technical services commodity group.
- B - Business Communications: What are the requirements for your organisation? Does your present ICT infrastructure meet the bill?
- C - Cut the Cost: Are you getting enough 'bang for your buck', or are you being over-charged due to the inefficiencies and confusion that are rife in this industry?
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The ABC of Managing the Telecommunications commodity group: What you need to know
This is the first in a series of articles brought to you by SmartProcurement dealing with the ABC of managing your organisation's telecommunications costs efficiently. Areas to be covered include:- A - Awareness: Being fully informed on this complex and highly technical services commodity group.
- B - Business Communications: What are the requirements for your organisation? Does your present ICT infrastructure meet the bill?
- C - Cut the Cost: Are you getting enough 'bang for your buck, or are you being over-charged due to the inefficiencies and confusion that are rife in this industry?"
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Cellphone supply market dynamics about to change
Benchmarking data for cellphones shows that the charging model for corporate clients has changed little in recent years and that by and large most corporate buyers still get a basic discount off the standard rates for subscriptions and call charges. Alan Low of benchmarking provider Purchasing Index tells SmartProcurement that this is all about to change..
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SmartTelephony - The costs of business communications are in steady decline
The world of Business Communications has fast become the focal point of several converging technologies that are racing to fill the worldwide need for cost efficiency and higher productivity. Piet Henning, a communications expert told delegates at a recent Smart Procurement breakfast that: "South Africa is an anomaly in that it is required to serve a large third world region with first world infrastructure and it cannot do so cost effectively because of institutionalised inefficiency’s and hopelessly outdated legislation. And all of that comes at a price! We pay the most exorbitant rates for both our fixed line and mobile telephony."
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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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