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Sponsors and Exhibitors at GovProcure 2015

Knowledge partners:

Procurement organisations are under pressure to address market volatility, increasing commodity costs and drive global contracting compliance, whilst mitigating supply chain risks and enhancing innovation. These organisations need to save more, operate with less and do more than just reduce cost. They must deliver business value as innovative, agile and flexible sourcing and procurement organisations.

As one of the world’s leading providers of sourcing and procurement services, Accenture helps clients architect, build and operate high performance procurement organisations. We drive tangible top and bottom-line results, and tie commercial arrangements to our clients’ desired business outcomes. Our experience and skills in both indirect and direct spend, have influenced almost US$600 billion of spend in the last five years. We manage more than $150 billion of our client’s indirect spend annually, giving us deep and relevant market insights into available procurement opportunities and value drivers.

Accenture has been named in the 'Winner's Circle' of HfS Research's Blueprint Report for Procurement As-a-Service and is positioned as the overall leader in the report which assessed 18 major procurement outsourcing providers based on excellence in both execution and innovation.

Find out more about Accenture's procurement services.

Procurement technology partners:

Everything We Do is Designed to Help You Be More Collaborative and Creative in Business Commerce

Ariba is an SAP company. Every day, we help our customers find opportunities to cut costs, reduce risk, and grow revenue through better collaboration with trading partners. We enable that collaboration through the Ariba Network — a cloud-based community where you’ll find buying, selling, and managing cash to be as easy as using Amazon, eBay, and PayPal. We also host other online communities where business commerce professionals network and share information and best practices, just like friends on Facebook.

To find out more – visit us at www.ariba.com

Networking partners:

Staples Australia and Staples New Zealand are part of the world’s largest office products company and a trusted source for office solutions. The company provides products, services and expertise in the categories of office supplies, technology solutions, business furniture, print solutions, promotional marketing, kitchen supplies, safety supplies and facility solutions. Staples has annual sales of $25 billion, ranking third in the world in eCommerce sales. With 88,000 associates worldwide, Staples operates in 26 countries throughout the world. The company is headquartered at Framingham, Massachusetts.

Exhibitors:

The Bridgestone brand has a global reputation as the tyre industry market leader, renowned for producing quality products and being at the forefront of technology, innovation and continuous improvement.

The Bridgestone Group has over 180 manufacturing plants and R&D facilities in 25 countries and sells products in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Bridgestone is a major supplier to the Australasian transport and automotive industry, providing an extensive range of quality tyres, carefully developed to suit local conditions.
Bridgestone also manufactures, wholesales and retails quality truck retread products through Bandag Pty Limited, the world’s leading retread brand. Bandag products complement the Bridgestone tyre range and provide a reliable solution for truck fleet customers.

Bridgestone is a Tyre Stewardship Association (‘TSA’) member. We support the voluntary Tyre Product Stewardship Scheme administered through TSA.

Bureau van Dijk is a leading provider of intelligence and data analytics to government and regulatory bodies. BvD’s data platform help government find, analyse and compare entities in order to generate economic growth, manage supplier risk, identify risks, trace foreign ownership and dealings and more. Our purpose-built solutions are powere by comprehensive database which contains over 175 million public and private companies around the globe.

Part of the Veda Group, Corporate Scorecard (AFS 341391) is one of Australia’s leading licenced providers of corporate credit ratings, providing confidential appraisals within the banking, insurance, corporate and government sectors. Corporate Scorecard provides issuer-based, client commissioned and subscriber-based credit rating services, and also delivers industry intelligence and strategic insights, highlighting key credit strengths, risks and sector benchmarks for improved confidence with capital raising, funding proposals, strategy formulation, business planning, counterparty reviews, divestures, mergers, and/ or acquisitions.

Veda’s Corporate Scorecard business is widely recognised as the most cost effective, dependable service of its type for evaluating the financial viability of companies in Australia. Whether you’re looking at a self-assessment, shadow ratings, bonds, credit risk, procurement risk, supply chain risk, PPP’s or major projects we have an affordable, professional option to ensure that the appropriate due diligence is done. Additional information is available at www.corporatescorecard.com.au or call 02 92787925.

COS is 100% Australian owned and operates with a Mission to “Offer the best customer service experience for office products in Australia”.

There is nothing more inspiring and satisfying than being able to put our core values into practice at work each day. At COS we have an outstanding team who are focused on the fundamentals of what makes a world-class business:

Exceed our customer’s expectations.
Always deliver what we promise.

When you become a partner of COS, you can expect:

Reliable, professional and friendly service.

A wide range of quality products.
Next-day delivery of all stocked items within metro areas.
Easy online ordering via our website.
The lowest price possible.

Direct Ergonomics manufacture and supply quality commercial furniture for a better working environment. We have been in business since 1986 and traditionally worked closely with government. Our current standing offer is SCM0771 for both large scale and small scale orders. Direct Ergonomics has a strong commitment to green manufacture and we can deliver a Green Project to ensure maximum points on the green furniture matrix.

Our product range:

Workstations: sit to stand, activity based, modular and static
Seating: ergonomic task chairs, meeting, conference and boardroom, breakout and visitor, link and beamseating, collaborative and customised soft seating including ottomans and booth style
Tables: meeting, conference, breakout, student, coffee tables - various styles available
Storage: vertical, lateral, filing, hinged and open storage, lockers, tambour cabinets - metal and laminate finishes

We have standard ranges or will customise to suit your individual requirements.

WE are your one stop shop for your office and being a Green; Australian Manufacturer; even a better choice for our future.

“The Faculty is recognised as one of Asia-Pacific's leading procurement advisors. We believe procurement is integral to core business strategy. We work with organisations to transform and elevate the role of procurement, build high performance commercial teams and facilitate professional knowledge networks.

At The Faculty, we are practitioners with international experience and blue-chip company pedigree, committed to delivering innovative and actionable commercial solutions to help you stay ahead of the game.

We are dedicated to empowering our clients to achieve sustainable value through procurement and supply excellence and in developing commercial business leaders for today and the future.

The Faculty delivers three services:

Consulting and transformation advisory services to elevate procurement through operational, functional and systems transformation, strategy development and best-in-class benchmarking.
Capability and training support to build and embed high-performance procurement teams.
Roundtables and thought-leadership forums to connect and inspire Asia-Pacific’s most dynamic and strategic procurement minds.

Frontier Software was founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1983. The objective of the founders was, and continues to be, to create a world-class integrated Human Resource and Payroll solution. That system, Comprehensive Human Resource Integrated Solution (CHRIS), supports best-practice Human Resource and Payroll processing for more than 1700 clients globally.

The system evolved into chris21, a solution that has exceeded user expectations in all areas of Payroll, Human Resources and Talent Management. chris21 is known to be flexible and scalable, with client workforce numbers ranging between 100 and 65,000 employees.

More recently Frontier Software is excited to present their new solution – ichris – to the market. ichris is enhancing the functionality of chris21 with a new user interface, new features and is accessible anytime, anywhere, from any device. It will revolutionise the way we do HR and Payroll.

While the company has grown significantly since inception, its corporate headquarters remain in Melbourne, with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and Perth as well as New Zealand, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and the UK.

MM Electrical Merchandising (MMEM) has over 250 branches and 1700 employees nationwide and is one of the largest distributors of electrical products in Australia. The MMEM Group trades under the respected business names of MM Electrical, AWM Electrical, TLE Electrical, D&W Electrical and Haymans Electrical and is a market leader in the management of electrical supply contracts and partnership agreements. With competitive pricing of products and best practice in-store and online services MMEM is now widely accepted as one of the best “total cost of goods” packages in the industry.

Our mission at Infosys Portland is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our clients’ procurement and supply chain activities. We achieve this through innovative, high-end strategy to effective, low-cost, transactional processing. The results are lower costs, reduced risks and improved service from external suppliers. Our team has deep expertise in achieving material improvements, delivering sustainable internal and external cost reduction, and profitability improvements. We provide thought leadership, specialist subject matter expertise, a global delivery model, and best-in-class technology solutions.

Open Windows is one of Australia’s leading providers of modular procurement software which is used by over 150 of the country’s largest organisations and government departments both in the cloud and on premise.

Established over twenty years ago, Open Windows has lived the IT development curve and is now a Microsoft GOLD development partner and MS ‘Innovation Partner of the Year’ award winner.

Today, our leading edge integrated software solutions are helping our clients develop and manage critical supply lines, complex tenders, large scale contracts and major projects worth billions of dollars.

Schiavello is a multi-disciplinary company dedicated to developing intelligent, inspiring, ecological and resilient solutions for the office, the home and public spaces. Schiavello’s concepts and products are developed in Australia by applying a design process that brings together the company’s core design principles and engineering with the creativity of local and international designers. Internationally renowned for the design and manufacture of furniture, from highly intelligent workstations and task seating, to statement pieces and storage, the company is also one of Australia’s most respected interior construction specialists. As a property developer, Schiavello has held a strong passion for creating world class property and contributing to the future of Australia’s great cities.

SoftwareONE is a licensing solutions provider with the unique combination of being truly global and fully-focused on software licensing solutions. Our 1000+ licensing professionals provide expertise through a consultative, long-term approach, helping you optimize your software spend, while facilitating relationships between you, software publishers, and local service partners.

With the growing complexity and diversity around software solutions, organizations require integrated Software Lifecycle Management and transparency to establish a structured and well managed software portfolio.

SoftwareONE’s unique Software Portfolio Management methodology takes you to the next level of optimization based on best practices, integrated processes and pro-active management of Software Lifecycles. Your specific Software Portfolio Management program will ensure cost-efficiency, well planned IT investments and sustainable governance by combining the commercial, technical, and compliance perspective.

Tigertail helps some of Australia’s largest organisations prepare for and manage risks, crises and emergencies.

We specialise in advisory, training and simulation services that strengthen an organisation’s capacity for operational resilience and continuity. Tigertail provides government agencies and private enterprise with strategies, training programs, tools and exercises that ensure their people, operations, infrastructure and systems can survive disruptions, disasters and crises.

We have sought to simplify the concepts of risk, crisis and emergency management, crisis communication, business continuity and security – to make them user-friendly and transparent.

Our expertise goes beyond our work as business resilience and continuity planners and trainers. We have deep experience advising government and critical infrastructure owners, with an intimate working knowledge of the arrangements that govern risk management and emergency preparedness. Our consultants have worked at tactical and strategic levels during business disruptions, emergencies and disasters and are among the most highly credentialed in their field.