Your Opinion Counts!
UGS Co-Sponsors Direct Materials Sourcing Benchmarking Survey with AberdeenGroup
It is the goal of many companies to make sourcing a competitive differentiator. To accomplish this, companies must have best-in-class sourcing practices and professionals supported by best-in-class technology. While your current software solution has met some needs, most companies feel their current solution will not allow them to get to the next level of savings and to the point where sourcing is a competitive advantage.
Competitive pressures for globalization, cost reduction and innovation are driving significant change for procurement organizations in manufacturing companies. UGS has been working with many of its customers in aligning procurement with product development.
As enterprises push costs and responsibilities down the supply chain, an increasing proportion of cost-of-goods-sold is traceable not to internal operations, but rather to suppliers. Direct product costs make up as much as 70 percent of corporate spend.
Supplier performance and sourcing has never been more directly on the critical path for generating revenues and reducing costs. Focusing on product sourcing, with an emphasis on aligning sourcing with product development, offers manufacturing companies the greatest opportunity to control costs and boost operating revenues.
If your company's goal is to make sourcing a competitive differentiator; specifically to accelerate commercialization of innovation, deliver cost savings, and increase productivity, now is your chance to make your opinion count. To better understand your needs and priorities, UGS invites to participate in a survey co-sponsored with AberdeenGroup focused on direct materials sourcing.
Act now to participate in this simple survey, which will be available on-line through the end of March 2006. Click to begin the AberdeenGroup survey, or visit the sourcing site.
