Blogs: 2012

Are Your OTC Metrics the Right Metrics? The Wrong Ones Can Cost You

John Salek , Vice President, Business Services of Genpact’s Order to Cash Group | Dec-26-12

Measuring Order to Cash (OTC) and Accounts Receivable (AR) performance is critical, but there is a fine line when it comes to the metrics you use to do it. Many companies incorporate reams of irrelevant data into their monthly reports, at the cost of time, expense, and data overload. Others measure ....

Categories: Finance and Accounting

Tags: OTC, SEP, Metrics, CFO

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How major global players prepare to outcompete

Ahmed Mazhari , SVP Sales & Marketing Europe | Dec-21-12

Although now considered to be past its critical phase, the risks associated with the ongoing Eurozone crisis are still understandably high on the boardroom agenda - especially for those companies operating in crisis-hit economies. And the swirling uncertainty that the European Monetary Union continu....

Categories: Organization effectiveness

Tags: Eurozone, Outcompete, Finance

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Design to Deliver: Putting Manufacturers Ahead of the Game

Ramnath Vaidyanathan, Assistant Vice President, Engineering | Dec-14-12

Your customers are demanding, your competition is unrelenting, and your backlog of manufacturing orders is rising. How do you keep up, let alone stay ahead of a market that is changing every day? Design to Deliver (DTD) is powerful combination of discrete business processes giving manufacturers an ....

Categories: Organization Effectiveness

Tags: Design, Manufacturing, Engineering, DTD

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New Challenges for Procurement: Corporate Social Responsibility

Sandeep Singh, Vice President – Procurement & Supply Chain Services | Dec-11-12

If you've ever seen a social media rant about a company’s ethical conduct, you know that digital media has given customers the power to make their voices heard, and more and more of them are voting with their wallets in favor of brands identified with high standards of corporate social respons....

Categories: Organization Effectiveness

Tags: Procurement, Corporate Social Responsibility, Global, CFO

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Turbo-Charging Supplier Segmentation with Business Process Management

Advait Rahalkar, Assistant Vice President, Supply chain Practice, Genpact | Dec-10-12

Recognizing greater supply chain complexity and the potential impact of robust supplier management on the bottom line, it's no surprise that companies are deeply committed to supplier segmentation. The catch is, segmentation does not always lead to the desired results—and business process mana....

Categories: Organization Effectiveness

Tags: Business Process Management, BPM, Summply Chain Management

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