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Paying Attention When the Telephone Bills Come Calling

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Eighty percent of corporate telephone bills have errors in their favor. Outsourcing short circuits mistakes and checks to see if you're still being charged for a circuit you removed in 1999.

The Original Mission Critical Application Becomes Even More Important as People Go Postal About Regular Mail

Jerri L. Ledford, Business Writer

The anthrax bacteria scare is causing many companies to turn to email, which has its own viral challenges. Suppliers fight the war to keep corporate email applications running.

There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

Do you know who's visiting your Web site? Data mining strikes gold.

Outsourcing Payroll Check Printing Pays Off

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Employees get a sinking feeling when they look at their paychecks and they're wrong! If they believe the payroll department didn't calculate their overtime properly or deducted too much for their health insurance, the first thing they do is reach

Reverse Auctions Improve Quality, Price and Delivery of Custom Goods

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Like many manufacturers in America, BOCE is in the midst of a major slowdown, according to Tom Connelly, North American supply manager for the Wilmington, Massachusetts, company. Demand in the semi-conductor industry for its vacuum pumps, turbo molecular pumps and

We’ve Only Just Begun

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Jane Drasites, Director, Benefits Delivery for BP Amoco, swears that the first year in an outsourcing relationship is just like a marriage. Some marriages don't work very well. When Amoco (prior to its merger with BP) signed an agreement in

Extra! Extra! Read All About It

Outsourcing Center, Bruce McCracken, Business Writer

As the 20th century closed, the winds of change blew at gale force in marketing and media, harkening the arrival of the Internet. A revolutionary communicative medium was permeating America and the world. The avenues of business were not unlike

Decreasing Delivery Headaches

Jerri L. Ledford, Business Writer

Any company doing business on a global scale knows what a hassle supply chain management can be. Everything from procurement to receiving becomes a difficult task when multiple currencies, customs departments and logistics are considered. And it's that difficulty that

Outsourcing a Process Co-Generates Savings

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

It all started with deregulation. Outsourcing the entire process fuels savings.

Supplier Supplies Capital, Engineers to Save Energy and Money

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

Farmland Industries, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest co-op agribusiness cooperative in the U.S. In addition to the brand Farmland Foods, the company makes nitrogen- and phosphate-based fertilizers. Because the company uses a tremendous amount of natural gas,

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