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News, Reviews & Interviews
- Serco extends contract with Genpact
Genpact announces contract with Serco for providing finance and accounting (F&A) services has been extended for six years.
Read more 6 January 2011 - Shared service savings could mitigate £2.9bn funding cut
Joining forces to finance services could yield total near to budget reduction
Read more 23 December 2010 - Kofax to Provide Enterprise Capture Solution to Rohm and Haas
Kofax Software to Process One Million Pages of Invoices and Financial Documents Annually
Read more 7 December 2010 - Long-Term Focus
In today's business culture, short-term gains are given huge importance. Here, Carol Velthuis of Infinite Ideas explains why the long view can often be a better deal for shareholders, suppliers and employees alike.
Read more 6 December 2010 - Royal Dutch Shell Transforming the finance function through Shared Services
The example we discovered at Shell is first-rate: the group has reorganized its finance operations function around five primary Shared Service Centers. There is a lesson to be learned here for anyone considering rolling out an HR SSC project: anything is possible when it has complete backing from top management
Read more 6 December 2010 - The Shared Services delivery platform: your key to effective Shared Services
What will next-generation Shared Services Centers be about? Companies are now looking at a long-term strategy for captive and external service delivery.
Read more 17 November 2010 - ADP Announces Procure-to-Pay Offering to Provide Document and Scanning Solutions
Eliminates Manual Invoice Entry, Manages Workflow and Improves Financial Controls to Save Time and Money
Read more 8 November 2010 - Hunt Oil Company Signs Multi-year Deal with ADP for Procure-to-Pay Soution
Hunt Oil Company has selected ADP’s Procure-to-Pay Solutions platform to automate its procurement and accounts payable processes
Read more 8 November 2010 - Shared Services Centers - Define reasonable guarantees of compliance, confidentiality and availabili
Setting up a Shared Services Center means rethinking the ways individuals exchange information. These flows of information must be made secure so that the service expected by users is reliable. This involves not only strengthening the mechanisms that guarantee confidentiality to access data, but also ensuring overall standardization in all the countries concerned - and that makes for greater complexity.
Read more 27 October 2010 - Shared Services Centers - Cost versus profit centers
Managing a Shared Services Center as a profit center, rather than a cost center, is an incentive for them to serve their clients better and innovate to improve service. As a minimum, this approach must be backed up by the definition of Service Level Agreements to formalize relationships between the center and its internal clients
Read more 13 July 2010
