Outsourcing The Right Way For Better Deals! – Published On Business Times

This article was first published in The Business Times on 27 September 2016 by ThunderQuote co-founder Junming Tan.

No business is completely self-sufficient. All companies require solutions and products from other vendors to better service their own customers. Outsourcing enables businesses to focus on developing its core competencies, while still benefiting from greater efficiencies and conveniences provided by their outsourced partners.  For example, an F&B business should spend more of its time developing new menus or training staff, while outsourcing IT and cloud-based technologies for improved accounting or scheduling services.

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Easiest Supplier Negotiation Guide To Ensure Increased Purchasing Value!

Whether you’re a small start up or a large MNC, negotiating with suppliers is an essential component of every business. It is important to master negotiation skills and pick up some negotiation tactics if you want to minimize your costs and get more value out of every deal. Here are some tips and tricks to gain an upper hand when it comes to negotiating with new or existing suppliers.
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A Process Guide on Understanding The Troubles With Procuring Services

Procuring services is more than just purchasing products. Most buyers or procurers know that when engaging services vendors, for some reason, it can be a lot more frustrating than buying products. Why is this?

Products are tangible, and can be checked against purchase order requirements, specifications and run through statistical quality checks. But services are non-tangible.

So what is special about procuring services and engaging service providers? This article by e-procurement platform ThunderQuote seeks to provide an objective, third party perspective into your organisation’s service procurement risks and the steps to address them moving forward.

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Unbelievable Tips To Kickstart Your IT Company!

Forget about the reliance of heavy machineries during the industrial age. In this technological era, there are new innovations every day that are changing and improving the way we live. Promising entrepreneurs are also developing up tech startups and coming up with ideas that are unimaginable in the past. So now that you have a world-changing idea in mind, what are some of the things that you may need to kick-start an IT company?

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