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Plan your enhancements in waves or leapfrog gaps in technology or automation. Seasoned experts at ISG can recommend ways to optimize and digitize processes that will leverage best practices, priorities and nuances to best suit your objectives. You face two big options when it comes to transformation:

  • Non-digital process improvement levers
  • Applying digital and emerging technologies to transform

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  • Eliminate waste and non-value-added activity 
  • Automate processes and apply advanced analytics
  • Standardize, simplify and source processes 
  • Optimize your target operating model

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Our proven ISG FutureSource™ methodology is collaborative and data-driven to help you make business process sourcing decisions that deliver more innovative solutions to achieve your business needs. You get a faster result and a strong, sustainable partnership to help you get ahead.

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Enabling your business operations to meet the fast-paced demands of today’s marketplace takes a special combination of domain knowledge, process expertise and technology savvy. ISG has a finger on the pulse of critical business operations decisions and tech, such as intelligent automation and blockchain. Whatever your business operations challenges are, ISG can help.

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Centralize and Reduce Indirect Spending with a GBS Strategy

Jun 22, 2021, 14:30 PM
ISG developed and supported a manufacturing company’s GBS strategy by providing expertise on tool selection and automation opportunities.
Title : Centralize and Reduce Indirect Spending with a GBS Strategy
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A water equipment, technology and services company’s indirect transactional procurement activities (purchase request to purchase order (PR-to-PO), tactical buying) were completely decentralized and done locally on approximately 100 enterprise resource planning (ERP) instances and/or tools across over 28 systems. No enterprise-wide tools existed to enable the PR-to-PO and PO-to-invoice process. The process maturity of the local purchasing groups varied widely; there were a high number of after-the-fact PO’s. 
A preferred supplier list did not exist, leading to a very high supplier count. Master data was not consolidated, hindering corporate-wide visibility. The company engaged ISG to not only help design a global business services (GBS) strategy to centralize indirect spend, but also to help select a tool to enable the set-up of the GBS services.
ISG conducted an as-is process functional analysis and identified process consolidation and rationalization opportunities by leveraging robotic process automation (RPA) and other digital strategies to cut the costs while enhancing the customer experience.
ISG facilitated a request for proposals (RFP) process to select a procure-to-pay technology solution. The RFP also included selecting the service provider to implement the tool and the associated services via a GBS organization.
ISG identified and helped implement specific RPA initiatives to integrate across 100 ERP instances and tools across the company’s enterprise.
  • The company obtained potential savings ranging from three to seven percent.
  • It identified over 100 ERP instances and tools with opportunities to integrate and implement RPA.
  • It benefited from ISG’s RPA expertise throughout the implementation process.
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