SSON's Top 10 Optimization Tips and Procurement Best Practice Case Studies

SSON's Top 10 Optimization Tips and Procurement Best Practice Case Studies PR Newswire LONDON, September 5, 2012 LONDON, September 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SSON recently interviewed John Dickens, Shared Services Centre Manager at NEC Europe about how the business optimized its back office function across Europe with cost efficiency measures. In the interview, John Dickens reflects on the impact of the economic climate on P2P: "In these austere times, many people are going back to the wheel. In P2P, it's always perceived that something can be gleaned out of this process, be it at the buying end or in the processing end. Everything just needs to be faster, leaner and better." He explains: "The pace of change in which suppliers are coming forward with bigger and better and more functional products has been quite amazing. Nowadays it's a question of why haven't you caught up and what's the next wave?" Dickens outlines the main challenges: "The ability to react to this fast-moving landscape is difficult. These are expensive operations and it's very difficult to decide whether to go with one product or another. Certainly the delivery of a return before the next wonder product is the biggest fear for most of us in this arena. But most business cases these days generally look for some kind of return within 12 to 18 months." And in terms of performance metrics: "The stakeholders of the business are now much more aware".