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Rachael Stormonth, Senior Vice President at BPS analyst house NelsonHall, discusses the latest business trends in F&A BPS with Professional Outsourcing magazine, and describes how some companies are using it as a platform for business transformation.
2023 was a year full of challenges for supply chain leaders. Recovery from COVID-19, avoiding supply chain disruptions, mitigating geo-political risk and climate changes, and understanding the implications of ESG on the supply chain were some of the headwinds leaders had to navigate. Amidst all these challenges and the corresponding need for a resilient supply chain, all the buzz aro[...]
NelsonHall recently had a briefing followed by a demo of Tech Mahindra’s latest offering in field service management: Yantr.ai, an AI and ML-based bolt-on solution that can sit on existing scheduling systems. Yantr.ai provides a control tower solution to field service management, focusing on delivering operational efficiency, enhanced productivity, and improved workflow control[...]
In our recent discussions with suppliers about procurement transformation, a recurring topic was how the procurement function can help organizations meet their sustainability goals. While sustainability has become an integral business theme for organizations, many recognize they have much to do over the next few years. This blog looks at the current state of sustainability in procure[...]
Conduent has launched FastCap to assist organizations in improving their working capital. FastCap is offered as a managed service leveraging its subject matter expertise in accounts payable and procurement and applying a set of tools (both proprietary and third party). These tools research and analyze large data sets, including accounts payable (AP) invoices, procurement spend data, and contr[...]
The pandemic stress-tested many supply chains beyond previous expectations, identifying and magnifying any process shortfalls. The current economic downturn and additional disruption of supply chains by geopolitical factors have further exacerbated the difficulties enterprises face in their day-to-day supply chain management. Accordingly, enterprises are typically seeking increase[...]
One of the impacts of the pandemic has been a broad acceleration in enterprise digitalization initiatives, and organizations are looking for strategic partners to assist them in their digital transformation journeys. While digitalization is now top of mind even in procurement, historically there have been challenges in applying intelligent automation to procurement, including budget [...]
It is no surprise that COVID-19 is the main theme of virtual conferences such as Procurecon Indirect that focus on the procurement function. And at NelsonHall we are seeing that the pandemic has sparked a range of inquiries from procurement professionals about the art of what’s possible. One outcome of the pandemic is that it has shifted priorities in large enterprises, with an increased[...]
Read Part 1 here. Q&A Part 2 JW: What are the main supply chain flows that supply chain executives should look to address? JJ: Traditionally, there are three main supply chain flows that benefit from automation: Physical flow (flow of goods from, e.g., from a DC to a retailer, the most visible and tangible flow) – some more obvious than others, such as parcel[...]
Introduction Supply chain management is an area currently facing considerable pressure and is a key target for transformation. NelsonHall research shows that less than a third of supply chain executives in major enterprises are highly satisfied with, for example, their demand forecasting accuracy and their logistics planning and optimization, and that the majority perceive there t[...]
Genpact has signed a procurement BPS contract with a multinational conglomerate to manage a spend of $10bn covering all major categories of indirect spend (except IT) including logistics, FM, MRO, professional services, travel, and contingent labor, globally. The contract is of strategic importance to Genpact in that it involves the transfer of 130 category management and sourcing personnel[...]
SCM is one of Genpact’s “invest-to-grow” service lines, where the company is looking to make disproportionate investments and scale up the business: in this case, to become one of the top two global supply chain transformation services vendors. In its “invest-to-grow” businesses, Genpact is looking to achieve at least twice the level of revenue growth ac[...]
This is the first in an occasional series of blog articles over the next year on Blockchain initiatives related to the financial services industry. Blockchain is an emerging technology for which there are no current operational deployments, with initiatives still primarily at the consulting and design stage. Pilots have been deployed, but are relatively rare despite the rapid growth in experim[...]
The nature of finance & accounting is changing rapidly with the advent of new technologies. RPA has already shown its potential to reduce transactional F&A costs by 20% while improving quality of service and the application of cognitive technologies over the next few years will multiply this existing impact several times over. And, with the advent of machine learning, the processes will in[...]
As well as conducting extensive research into RPA and AI, NelsonHall is also chairing international conferences on the subject. In July, we chaired SSON’s second RPA in Shared Services Summit in Chicago, and we will also be chairing SSON’s third RPA in Shared Services Summit in Braselton, Georgia on 1st to 2nd December. In the build-up to the December event we thought we would shar[...]
As well as conducting extensive research into RPA and AI, NelsonHall is also chairing international conferences on the subject. In July, we chaired SSON’s second RPA in Shared Services Summit in Chicago, and we will also be chairing SSON’s third RPA in Shared Services Summit in Braselton, Georgia on 1st to 2nd December. In the build-up to the December event we thought we [...]
As well as conducting extensive research into RPA and AI, NelsonHall is also chairing international conferences on the subject. In July, we chaired SSON’s second RPA in Shared Services Summit in Chicago, and we will also be chairing SSON’s third RPA in Shared Services Summit in Braselton, Georgia on 1st to 2nd December. In the build-up to the December event we thought we [...]
NelsonHall recently attended the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) “Empowering the Customer to Win in the Digital Age” event hosted by HPE BPS. The theme was strongly around digital and empowering organizations to own the (increasingly digital) interface between customers, suppliers, and employees. In support of this theme HPE is investing heavily in automation, both in its own platform[...]
BPO contract TCV in Q1 2015 continued the improvement in contract activity seen in Q4 2014, with BPO TCV picking up and gaining momentum over the past two quarters following relatively low levels of BPO TCV awarded in Q2 and Q3 2014. In particular, Q4 2014 showed a 6% improvement in BPO TCV year-on-year, with BPO accounting for 31% of total outsourcing TCV. Q1 2015 BPO TCV performance then impr[...]
NelsonHall’s Business Process Services (BPS) Confidence Index is a quarterly index of confidence to monitor changes in industry confidence in the global business process services market. The objectives of the quarterly “BPS Confidence Index” are to identify: Whether the demand for business process services has strengthened or softened in the past quarter Expectations o[...]
Overall IBM Group revenues in 2014 declined 6% (-1% in CC and excluding divestitures). However, IBM is in the midst of a major adjustment of its portfolio. In line with this, the company is reporting $25bn in revenues (and 16% revenue growth) in 2014 (out of a total of $92.8bn) from its "strategic imperatives". IBM's acquisition of Softlayer, where it continues to invest strongly,[...]
This is the final in a series of short blogs that look at various disruptive forces and their impact on BPO. The impact of all these disruptive factors is that BPO is now changing into something that the client has always wanted namely “High Velocity BPO”. In its early days, BPO was a linear and lengthy process with knowledge transfer followed by labor arbitrage, followed by process[...]
BPO has always depended on partnerships with third-party software providers to provide supplementary platforms around client core systems to provide specialist functionality in areas like procurement, collections, & reconciliation handling. However, there is a danger that this can lead to a Heath Robinson (or Rube Goldberg) combination of applications, involving expensive software or SaaS[...]
HP Enterprise Services has announced Q2 FY 2015 results, for the period ending April 30, 2015: Revenue was $4,817m, down 15.5% y/y, and down 10% in constant currency (CC), reflecting key account run off and weakness in EMEA Segment earnings before taxes (EBT) were $194m, a margin of 4.0%, up 143 bps y/y. Q2 FY 2015 revenue by service line (with y/y revenue growth) was: [...]
Sopra Steria has announced its financial results for 2014, focusing on its profitability performance (revenues were previously published in February). Our key takeaways from the announcement are discussed here. U.K. Will Continue to Outperform Other Sopra Steria Geographies in 2015 Sopra Steria U.K. had phenomenal growth in 2014 (+18.2% organically) to ~€859m. Profitability was high (ad[...]
Accenture Federal Services (AFS) is to acquire Agilex Technologies, a privately-held provider of digital solutions for the U.S. federal government based in Chantilly, VA. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition will enhance Accenture’s digital capabilities in analytics, cloud and mobility for federal agencies. It also will add agile delivery expertise. Agilex br[...]
