Manufacturing Industry
Streamlining and savings in the contract labor buy. (Verizon Wireless).(Brief Article)
Purchasing, May, 2002 by Hannon, David
Cheryl Rowden was not a big believer in e-procurement. Sure, she had heard the stories about the savings and efficiencies gained with e-procurement, but as director of IT finance at the 40,000-employee Verizon Wireless of Bedminster, N.J., Rowden was not ready to risk investing in some fly-by-night software for a quick short-term savings. That's not how IT finance directors think.
"To be perfectly honest, I needed to be convinced to do this," Rowden admits of the early forays into e-procurement. "I am not a huge proponent of using software solutions to solve my problems. But with the merger the size of the one that created Verizon and its wireless subsidiary, the organizations were left with some challenges in becoming one well-functioning business. And...
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