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Bath, UK (Jul 1, 2021)– Claritum, a provider of a cloud-based organisational process improvement suite of software, today announced its 20 th birthday. “I am proud to be part of this Claritum team on this 20 year anniversary.”, said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “Claritum has succeeded despite a global financial crisis and a pandemic.
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Bath, UK (May 12, 2021)– Claritum, a provider of a cloud-based organisational process improvement suite of software, today announced that it has been recognised as both a horizontal suite and as being focused on mid-market organisations globally, by this PEAKSPAN and art of procurement technology graphic. “Claritum has always focused our full suite of software on mid-market organisations and procurement service providers.”, said Prof.
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“BRIGHT by Claritum is the very latest in B2B Marketplaces.”,” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “A BRIGHT marketplace enables remote trade for small and medium sized Enterprises within Networking groups.”. Bright by Claritum allows you to create your own buyer and supplier collaborative network group, within a wider ecosystem of buyers and suppliers.
6 ways you can help your organisation save time and money. Cut operational costs and improve efficiencies. Eliminate the need for disparate systems across departments and geolocations, and instead centralise and integrate these functions into a single cloud deployed system to manage processes, with multiple languages and currencies supported if required.
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Bath, UK (November 19, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that Claritum has attained accreditation to the Made in Britain organisation. “Claritum is proud to be UK owned and to develop all of our products in the UK,” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “To get recognition of this and to be able to show this through this recognition was important to us.”.
How can you achieve procurement best practice in your organization? In this article we look at what we think are the 5 most important steps towards effective eProcurement. Image of the 5 Steps to best practice Visibility, Control, Efficiencies, Savings and Creating value. Read the article at claritum.com. Visibility. visibilityStep 1 is to get good spend visibility and understand what you are buying and how much you are spending across all your spend categories.
Introduction. Grouped item fulfilment against a sales order is a common challenge across many sectors. With the need to link items together to form a kit or assembly. This may be a few items that need to be shipped together or it may be many individual components that form a complete assembly. However, often automation is ignored as being too expensive or complex for small and medium-sized organisations.
Introduction. “Vendor - neutral describes a state in which no one vendor can control the definition, revision or distribution of a specification.” Gartner. Allowing for broad compatibility and interchangeability of vendors and technology. Why Does it Matter? Avoid Vendor Lock-In. Relationships with vendors are important, however if this results in the vendor being specified, as opposed to the requirement, this is not a good result.
Canon Business Services extends Claritum contract for an additional 3 years. Bath, UK (December 18th, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that Canon Business Services has extended their contract with Claritum for a further 3 years. “Canon has been a Claritum customer since 2004 and their continued use of Claritum is a confirmation of our ability to deliver value to our customers over extended periods.” said Prof.
Introduction. This article looks at the use of business to business orchestrated. Marketplaces and online catalogues to mitigate the people factor of any. procurement process. People govern the success or failure of any. procurement process automation. By orchestrated, we mean that the process of establishing and. managing suppliers within the Marketplace is totally under the control. of the organisation’s Procurement team.
Bath, UK (January 16th, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that Claritum has been recognised by Bath Life Awards as a rapidly growing company in the technology and innovation space. "It is fantastic news to gain recognition as a local growing company." said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.
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Claritum processes its first transaction in Chinese. Bath, UK (March 3, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that the Claritum platform had processed the first of many transactions using a Chinese language (Mandarin) interface and Chinese Yuan as the currency. With the Claritum system being accessible worldwide, from the Cloud, we see many different languages being used to transact purchases.
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Bath, UK (Apr 24, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced the addition of Kevin into the team. Kevin joins Claritum’s engineering team, as we continue to build up our core development team. “It’s great to welcome Kevin.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “As we grow, we need to continue to invest in our engineering team to support our innovation.”.
Introduction. This article explores the use of technology to provide a platform for Buyers and Sellers to interact during a major disruption resulting in. the absence of face to face or event-based exploration of partnerships. Proposing that an automated solution, orientated towards the. engagement of potential partners in the buying and supplying ecosystem, is essential if we are to ensure our businesses are resilient to global. events, such as a pandemic.
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Introduction. There is an ever-increasing emphasis on the need to mitigate risk associated with non-employee workforces. The unpredictable economic environment requiring organisations to readily increase or decrease resources. Procuring and managing costs associated with these resources is typically handled in a very manual fashion. Spreadsheets and emails often being the tools employed.
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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. Trading During a Pandemic. 3. A Buyer/Seller Ecosystem. 4. The Ecosystem Capabilities. 5. Do I have the tools I need? 6. Summary. 1 Introduction. This article explores the use of technology to provide a platform for Buyers and Sellers to interact during a major disruption resulting in the absence of face to face or event-based exploration of partnerships.
Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (Apr 24, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced the addition of Kevin into the team. Kevin joins Claritum’s engineering team, as we continue to build up our core development team. “It’s great to welcome Kevin.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum.
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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. when should I use it? And what challenges will I face? Contents. 1. Introduction. 2. The Strategic Nature of Focusing on a Category. 3. Typical Steps Associated with Category Purchasing. 4. Project and Category Procurement Differences. 5. Category-based Procurement Examples. 6. The Inherent Challenges of Category-based Procurement. 7.
Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Claritum processes its first transaction in Chinese. Bath, UK (March 3, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, today announced that the Claritum platform had processed the first of many transactions using a Chinese language (Mandarin) interface and Chinese Yuan as the currency. With the Claritum system being accessible worldwide, from the Cloud, we see many different languages being used to transact purchases.
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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (Feb 11, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud-based spend management solutions, is delighted to announce that, in line with the growth strategy, the company will be opening an office at the Warwick Science Park. This will be a central base for international sales teams and an additional Research and Development base, where we can work in the proximity of Warwick Universities AI and Data Science departments.
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Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (Jan 22, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced further expansion in the team. “David and Paul are two key new hires to the Claritum team.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “David joining our development team, to bring additional data analytics focus, and Paul joining the Sales team to engage in new business growth.”.
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