Impediments to information management success

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An InformationWeek Reports survey of more than 540 respondents identified 10 impediments to information management success.  The identity and relative importance of these impediments are showed in this horizontal bar graph below.

The survey providing the data can be accessed by clicking here (PDF file).

Percentage of companies that separate sourcing from purchasing

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This pie chart shows the percentage of companies, responding to a Deloitte survey, that separate their supply management activities from their purchasing activities.  This data and other results of the survey are in a report entitled “Driving New Value from Direct Materials Supply Management – Opportunities, Trends, and Best Practices in Direct Materials Sourcing and Procurement”.  This report can be assessed by clicking here (PDF file).

The report suggests that because of Internet communications developments, sourcing offers important opportunities for reducing costs in a company’s supply function.   And, therefore, separate sourcing teams are now finding success, not found previously.

Top management tools recently used by companies

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This horizontal bar graph shows the 10 most used management tools by companies surveyed by Bain & Company.  A list of 25 management tools, identified and defined by Bain, was presented to participating companies.  The companies were asked to select the one tool they considered most important in their business.

Bain & Company published the results of their survey in a report entitled “Management Tools & Trends 2011”.  This report can be accessed by clicking here (PDF file).

Performance measurements for the cash (treasury) management function

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This horizontal bar graph shows how survey respondents rank (key metrics of cash management success) the importance of several cash management tasks.

The survey was conducted in 2011 by the Association for Financial Professionals.  More than 430 company CFOs, controllers, and other financial professionals responded to the survey.  The survey’s results can be read by clicking here (PDF file).

The results show the importance of cost reductions in the cash management function.
























    

Challenges to reducing construction costs

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This horizontal bar graph shows the top challenges to reducing costs in international construction and engineering companies, as judged by 161 interviewed executives in those companies.

The graph’s data was obtained from a KPMG report on the results of the executive interviews.  The report is entitled “The Great Global Infrastructure Opportunity - Global Construction Survey 2012”.  The report can be accessed by clicking here (PDF file).

Cost advantages of e-Payments

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This horizontal bar graph shows the advantages (drivers) of using e-Payments, e.g. in the accounts payable process.   The two top advantages result in cost reductions.

The data in the graph is based on a survey conducted by PayStream of several companies.  The percentages show what respondents indicated are the most important advantages.

Data in the graph is from a 2011 US Bank presentation entitled “Payables Trends and Best Practices”, which can be accessed by clicking here (PDF file).

Methods used to determine transfer prices

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These horizontal bar graphs show the preference for setting prices for transfer pricing purposes for approximately 875 multinational enterprises.

The data in the graphs was taken from an Ernst & Young survey of the multinational enterprises on transfer pricing procedures and practices.  You can gain access to the results of the survey by clicking here (PDF file).  

Data on the graphs and in the survey report should be useful to companies operating in more than one country.  Government transfer pricing taxation policies for many countries are provided.