SSON

Shared Services & Outsourcing Network

Company Overview:

The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON) is the largest and most established community of shared services and outsourcing professionals.

We provide the roof under which key industry experts and organizations share their experience, knowledge and tools, and your practitioner peers connect with other all over the world, face to face and online.

SSON focuses on developing its members through providing training, tools, and networking opportunities. Our staff works from international offices in New York, London, Singapore, Sydney, Johannesburg, Berlin and Dubai to research current trends and developments in shared services… find out more

Associate Membership (FREE)
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Our associate members receive:
Regular bi-weekly e-newsletters
The latest tools & resources
Opportunities to discuss challenges and issues with our global network of specialists
Access to a wealth of feature articles, interviews, presentations, podcasts, videos and our dedicated job board
Information about and offers to upcoming events
And best part is it’s FREE!
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Premium Membership ($149.99 USD)
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An annual SSON Premium Membership Includes:
12 month access to Premium digital content which covers best practice case studies, strategies, lessons learned, member profiles, interviews, roundtables, legislative reviews and much more
Access to the entire backlog of Shared Services News Magazine
Discounts on any of our 35 shared services conferences around the world
Regular bi-weekly e-newsletters
1 FREE job posting
Networking via our Q&A Forum and blogs
Extensive archives, recent white papers and industry reports
Constantly updated shared services and outsourcing news, interviews and features from our global community and dedicated editors
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G8 Global Sourcing Think Tank: Eliminating the White Noise

SSON’s global G8 series was launched earlier this year in April, with the first of 4 regional panels held in Sydney at the Shared Services & Outsourcing Week APAC, in which participants discussed the state of the industry across Australasian markets. The 3 remaining G8 regional panels cover local debates in EMEA (Budapest), Asia (Singapore) and the Americas (Orlando).

Designed to provide the Shared Services and Outsourcing industry with a neutral platform to build a common agenda, SSON’s Global G8 series hopes to combat end-user cynicism and confusion surrounding the growing complexity of sourcing models and provider solutions options available to companies today.

Chosen by local SSON members, and invited to help extinguish the white noise and establish some clarity, the Sydney line-up included pivotal industry figures that are active across the consulting, BPO provision/advisory and the ERP technology side of the shared services and outsourcing space.

Europe: http://www.ssonetwork.com/topic_detail.aspx?id=5150
Asia: http://www.ssonetwork.com/topic_detail.aspx?id=6150
Australia: http://www.ssonetwork.com/topic_detail.aspx?id=5498
North America is coming in 2010

SSON presents the 10th Annual Shared Services & Outsourcing Week 2010
May 24 – 27, 2010
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, UK

Shared Services & Outsourcing Week celebrates 10 year’s of quality benchmarking, thought leadership, networking, training and debate – and this year is proud to introduce:
A 100% interactive format
Tailored content and relevant onsite networking
Follow up and year round networking
This event is where the sourcing world shapes it’s future and where you can carve out the solution that ensures survival and re-invention for your business… read more

Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON) Presents the

Smart Procurement Series

www.ssonetwork.com/smart_procurement

SSON’s Smart Procurement Series brings you pragmatic procurement case studies, roundtables, whitepapers, webinars and articles in association with some of the industry’s best know and respected names. Be sure to check out the latest items in the Smart Procurement Series, including:

Whitepapers
7 Procurement Outsourcing Myths, Demystified Genpact’s insights into 7 common myths can help drive best practices, set correct expectations and bring about increased success in procurement outsourcing initiatives. Passion for Purchasing This paper demonstrates how Skanska and Lufthansa AG cut costs dramitially through smart procurement. Source to Pay 2.0 – Drive best in class S2P performance Only a very small number of companies achieve elite status where their sourcing and procurement organization deliver the best possible performance – Read how you can extract maximum value from virtually every aspect of the source-to-pay (S2P) process to join this group of top performers… Driving Margin Improvement: Next Generation of Cost Savings While new sources of cost savings are critical to funding margin expansion and growth, many companies have still not tapped a key area of hidden cost. This white paper outlines the nature of the challenge and an opportunity to find the “next generation” of cost savings.

Case Studies
Accelerating value in procurement through outsourcing In this video case study, Ron Brown, Senior VP of Global Sourcing & Supply Chain at Greif explains how Greif  is expanding their global reach, not only in supply chain, but also in the sourcing arena, on the journey to become a more effective global organization. Drive technological excellence in procurement outsourcing Navanit Samaiyar, Senior Vice President and Business Leader for Genpact’s Procurement and Supply Chain Services, explains how technology impacts the overall procurement outsourcing business. Webinars Free Webinar: Driving Best in Class Source to Pay Performance and Improving Business Outcomes Navanit Samaiyar, Senior Vice President, Genpact Genpact presents a new paradigm which takes an enterprise level view of the source to pay processes and ties them to business outcomes enabling faster pay-back and increased performance

Interactive Links:

SSON’s 8th Annual European Shared Services and Outsourcing Week in Barcelona, May 2008

SSON Annual Shared Services & Outsourcing Week 2010

Check out the above video from SSON’s 8th Annual Shared Services & Outsourcing Week in Barcelona 2008. Join us at the 10th Annual European Shared Services & Outsourcing Week May 24th – 27th, 2010 in Edinburgh.

Procurement Insights Media Coverage:

PI Window on Business Segment (SSON Smart Procurement Series: Procurement Outsourcing) – Air Date, April 13th, 2010

PI Window on Business Segment (Shared Services and Outsourcing Network’s The Year in Review and The Year Ahead) – Air Date, December 30th, 2009

Procurement Insights Articles and White Papers:

April 13th, 2010 – Today’s SSON Panel Discussion on Procurement Outsourcing Went Well Beyond the Same Old Industry Chatter

April 12th, 2010 – SSON Smart Procurement Series: Procurement Outsourcing

Social Network Links (Groups):

Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (LinkedIn Group)