Erin Bedesem interned at ARRIS Enterprises during the summer of 2016. As a supply chain intern, she worked on several projects including a CEO roundtable, travel incentive project, and helping consolidate ARRIS's GVM system with the recently acquired Pace business over three phases. This involved analyzing duplicate supplier data between ARRIS and Pace, making recommendations to clean up ARRIS vendor data, and ensuring supplier banking information was updated for the system consolidation go live. At the end of her internship, Erin reflected on her experience working on these projects over the summer.
Supply Chain Management, Sourcing Pricing and Procurement Process ,
Presentations By Rajendran Ananda Krishnan, https://www.facebook.com/ialwaysthinkprettythings
Supply Chain Management, Sourcing Pricing and Procurement Process ,
Presentations By Rajendran Ananda Krishnan, https://www.facebook.com/ialwaysthinkprettythings
Procurement Excellence in the Energy & Natural Resources IndustrySAP Ariba
With tumultuous economic times, Energy & Natural Resources companies look more into bottom line cost savings. Procure to pay optimization across key procurement spend categories can drive sustainable savings, from sourcing and contract compliance to dynamic discounting and working capital management strategies.
Attend this session to hear how Energy & Natural Resources companies have achieved procure to pay excellence. And learn more about Ariba LIVE at http://spr.ly/LIVE2014LV-d
Best Practices for Oil & Gas: Rapid SAP Implementation at a Startup Independ...Kent Landrum
Full presentation from the 2011 Best Practices for Oil & Gas conference covering leading practices and lessons learned from the PBF Energy IS-Oil implementation. Authored by Richard Loew and Kent Landrum.
Procurement Excellence in the Banking & Insurance IndustrySAP Ariba
With tumultuous economic times, banking and insurance companies look more into bottom line cost savings. Procure to pay optimization across key procurement spend categories can drive sustainable savings, from sourcing and contract compliance to dynamic discounting and working capital management strategies.
Attend this session to hear how banking and insurance companies have achieved procure to pay excellence.
Effective Supplier Management: Because Knowing Is Better than WonderingSAP Ariba
When it comes to good supplier management, it’s an opportunity you wouldn’t want to miss and a risk you cannot afford to take. Meticulous supplier information gathering, measuring performance, and assessing risks is a two-way collaborative process between buyers and suppliers. Without the right tools and processes, efforts to manage your supplier portfolio could take a lot of time with little results. This session presents the groundwork for laying a successful supplier management strategy and the best practices in maintaining buyer and supplier adaption.
How to Build & Execute Successful Roadmaps by Amazon Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Factors to consider for building a successful product plan - I will share a example roadmap
- How to get buy in for the product plan - I will talk about possible ways to get buy in
- Things to consider while executing the roadmap/plan - I will talk about anticipating risks, update of roadmap and launch of line items within roadmap
Empowering Strategic Sourcing: Transforming Your ProcessSAP Ariba
Strategic sourcing goes beyond just capturing quick-hit savings. Changing customer requirements, increasing regulations, and brand value risks have required businesses to find more collaborative ways to address essentials in the sourcing lifecycle. See how an ecosystem approach comprising spend analytics, supplier risk, contract management, and supplier management helps to better manage the sourcing process.
Closing the Loop in Your Procure-to-Pay ProcessSAP Ariba
Without connecting invoice processing to the broader source-to-settle process, a P2P transformation project will have limited success. In this session, you will hear how you can implement a "closed-loop" P2P process that enforces invoices against catalogs, orders, and contracts; monitors supplier performance; and improves control over your spend.
Best Practices for Writing Financial ReportsAlithya
Are you getting the most value from Hyperion Financial Reports? Do you want a more structured approach to writing Hyperion Financial Reports? Edgewater Ranzal presented at UK OUG Applications Conference hints, tips, and best practices for writing Reports that provide value to end users.
Lowendalmasaï enterprise cost management Giuseppe Mele
Lowendalmasaï is an international management consulting company which helps enterprisesto improve their business through cost management efficiency that enhance their long term performance and finances their growth, while protecting human capital.
We had a wide presence in Europe, with own offices in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Germany and the Netherlands, and outside Europe in China and Japan.
In Italy the Group offer is structured along the business lines: Innovation Financing, Labour Cost, Fiscal, Purchasing & Cost Performance and Working Capital.
Furthermore we developed a widespread network which allows us to support our clients in most European countries plus USA, Tunisia, Israel, Turkey and India.
For info:
gmele@lowendalmasai.com
M. +39 348 6657917
An introduction to portfolio management - the theory and in practice webinar
Tuesday 19 May 2020
presented by
Petula Allison and Adam Skinner
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/an-introduction-to-portfolio-management-the-theory-and-in-practice-webinar/
Procurement Excellence in the Energy & Natural Resources IndustrySAP Ariba
With tumultuous economic times, Energy & Natural Resources companies look more into bottom line cost savings. Procure to pay optimization across key procurement spend categories can drive sustainable savings, from sourcing and contract compliance to dynamic discounting and working capital management strategies.
Attend this session to hear how Energy & Natural Resources companies have achieved procure to pay excellence. And learn more about Ariba LIVE at http://spr.ly/LIVE2014LV-d
Best Practices for Oil & Gas: Rapid SAP Implementation at a Startup Independ...Kent Landrum
Full presentation from the 2011 Best Practices for Oil & Gas conference covering leading practices and lessons learned from the PBF Energy IS-Oil implementation. Authored by Richard Loew and Kent Landrum.
Procurement Excellence in the Banking & Insurance IndustrySAP Ariba
With tumultuous economic times, banking and insurance companies look more into bottom line cost savings. Procure to pay optimization across key procurement spend categories can drive sustainable savings, from sourcing and contract compliance to dynamic discounting and working capital management strategies.
Attend this session to hear how banking and insurance companies have achieved procure to pay excellence.
Effective Supplier Management: Because Knowing Is Better than WonderingSAP Ariba
When it comes to good supplier management, it’s an opportunity you wouldn’t want to miss and a risk you cannot afford to take. Meticulous supplier information gathering, measuring performance, and assessing risks is a two-way collaborative process between buyers and suppliers. Without the right tools and processes, efforts to manage your supplier portfolio could take a lot of time with little results. This session presents the groundwork for laying a successful supplier management strategy and the best practices in maintaining buyer and supplier adaption.
How to Build & Execute Successful Roadmaps by Amazon Sr PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Factors to consider for building a successful product plan - I will share a example roadmap
- How to get buy in for the product plan - I will talk about possible ways to get buy in
- Things to consider while executing the roadmap/plan - I will talk about anticipating risks, update of roadmap and launch of line items within roadmap
Empowering Strategic Sourcing: Transforming Your ProcessSAP Ariba
Strategic sourcing goes beyond just capturing quick-hit savings. Changing customer requirements, increasing regulations, and brand value risks have required businesses to find more collaborative ways to address essentials in the sourcing lifecycle. See how an ecosystem approach comprising spend analytics, supplier risk, contract management, and supplier management helps to better manage the sourcing process.
Closing the Loop in Your Procure-to-Pay ProcessSAP Ariba
Without connecting invoice processing to the broader source-to-settle process, a P2P transformation project will have limited success. In this session, you will hear how you can implement a "closed-loop" P2P process that enforces invoices against catalogs, orders, and contracts; monitors supplier performance; and improves control over your spend.
Best Practices for Writing Financial ReportsAlithya
Are you getting the most value from Hyperion Financial Reports? Do you want a more structured approach to writing Hyperion Financial Reports? Edgewater Ranzal presented at UK OUG Applications Conference hints, tips, and best practices for writing Reports that provide value to end users.
Lowendalmasaï enterprise cost management Giuseppe Mele
Lowendalmasaï is an international management consulting company which helps enterprisesto improve their business through cost management efficiency that enhance their long term performance and finances their growth, while protecting human capital.
We had a wide presence in Europe, with own offices in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Germany and the Netherlands, and outside Europe in China and Japan.
In Italy the Group offer is structured along the business lines: Innovation Financing, Labour Cost, Fiscal, Purchasing & Cost Performance and Working Capital.
Furthermore we developed a widespread network which allows us to support our clients in most European countries plus USA, Tunisia, Israel, Turkey and India.
For info:
gmele@lowendalmasai.com
M. +39 348 6657917
An introduction to portfolio management - the theory and in practice webinar
Tuesday 19 May 2020
presented by
Petula Allison and Adam Skinner
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/an-introduction-to-portfolio-management-the-theory-and-in-practice-webinar/
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Overview
Agenda
About Me
Internship Highlights
Summer Projects
Reflections, Question, & Close
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Year: Rising Junior
Degree: Finance & Accounting
Graduation: May 2018
Program: International Business
Certificate Program
Locations: Beijing, China
Shanghai, China
London, UK
Role: Supply Chain Intern
BU: S.C – Procurement
Manager: Joe Palmieri
Location: Horsham, PA
About Me
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Internship Highlights
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Team
Ir n Man
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Summer Project
• CEO Roundtable
– Supply Chain Interns
– Team Profiles
• Travel Incentive Project
• GVM System Consolidation
– 3 Phases
– GVM & IT Collaboration
– Completion by “Go Live” date
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Vendor Maintenance Project
• Summer 2015
– ARRIS Vendor Cleanup
– Modifications to supplier payment profiles
– Use of Oracle software
• Summer 2016
– GVM System Consolidation
– Pace integration
– IT Collaboration
– Supplier banking information
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Phase 1
• Raw Pace and ARRIS data
• Analyze duplicate suppliers
• Acquire feedback from GVM team
• Mapping exercise
• Support from IT
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Phase 2
• ARRIS vendor cleanup
• Payment feedback
• Made recommendations to supplier sites
• All recommendations reviewed and implemented
• Mass deactivations sent to IT
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Phase 3
• Banking information
• Recycle of mapping and deactivations
• Supplier correspondent information
• New extract file
• Last analysis before Go Live
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Supervised 27 supplier categories to ensure supplier set up, payment, and routing information; effort assisted ARRIS to manage and pay suppliers in a timely fashion.
Phase 2
Phase 3
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