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Best Practice: Ericsson: The Power Of Purchasing Cards
18-Dec-2000 eBusiness Forum
Ericsson, the Swedish phone giant, uses electronic purchasing cards to streamline procurement, reaping huge cost savings in the process, according to a case study in eCFO, a publication of The Economist Group.

P-Cards Travel Different Roads To The Same Efficiencies
July/August 2004 Treasury and Risk Management
Implementing a purchasing card program is no longer the final destination, but rather an important cog in a company's overall procurement strategy

Purchasing Molds More Powerful ToolsCard Providers Enhance Their Products In Response To Buyer Demand
June 3, 2004 Purchasing Magazine
Card providers enhance their products in response to buyer demand

Doing Business With The Federal Government
October/November 2004 Imaging Network
 

P-Cards Head Higher
Aug 2003 BusinessFinancemag.com
Discussion of expanded use of purchase cards and results.

Hoarding Liquidity
Feb 2003 BusinessFinancemag.com
With credit markets iffy and nervous investors searching for conservative balance sheets, companies are looking to shore up liquidity.

The Power of Purchasing Cards
Dec 2000 CFO.com
P-cards can become a cornerstone of corporate procurement strategies. They can be an efficient way of making low-cost, high-volume purchases that traditionally have required labor-intensive processing.

State of California CalCard Program: See how the State of California approaches their purchase card use
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When P-Cards Meet the Internet
1-Dec-2000 BusinessFinancemag.com
Purchasing card program managers are divorcing themselves from software they have used for years, grabbing Web browsers and logging onto sites where the information is always fresh and the reporting and allocation tools are maintained by someone else.

Popular Test with Feds
1-Nov-2000 CFO.com
A new software for recertifying recipients of procurement cards.

Preventing P-Card Plateaus
1-Sep-2000 BusinessFinancemag.com
Why do some purchasing card programs take off and soar while others remain on permanent pilot? Because after kicking off a program, many companies fail to monitor and manage its progress.

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Lawmaker Urges Caution In Regulating Purchase Cards
May 5, 2004 GovExec.com
Congress should avoid overregulating the government purchase card program, a key House lawmaker said Tuesday.

How To Save $300 Million: Purchase Cards Open Door To Deeper Discounts
May 10, 2004 FederalTimes.com
 

Feds push to close accessibility loophole
24-Jan-2001 Federal Computer Week
The "micro-purchase exemption," one of the loopholes to compliance with new federal accessibility standards, is likely to be phased out.

Florida Purchase Card Program
4-Sep-2000 Federal Computer Week
Florida expects to save millions of dollars in the years ahead through a government charge card-based e-commerce program.

Agencies urged to agree on e-purchasing standards
20-Jun-2000 GovExec.com
If federal agencies all followed the same rulebook for electronic purchasing, prices would drop and efficiency would increase, according to a new report.

Trump Card
1-May-2000 GovExec.com
No matter how you cut 'em, purchase cards are coming up aces.

E-Invasion
1-May-2000 GovExec.com
That giant buzzing you've been hearing recently is the sound of Internet dot.coms swarming the government market.

Agencies offered free advice on using purchase cards
8-Mar-2000 GovExec.com
While some of the work it does for government agencies is strictly confidential, the MITRE Corp. has started giving away the secrets of its purchase card program.

E-commerce drives charge card use up to $15 billion
16-Feb-2000 GovExec.com
Federal agencies put nearly $15 billion in purchases and travel expenses on charge cards in fiscal 1999, according to the General Services Administration's latest figures.

New Report: Small Businesses Venture into E-Commerce
30-Aug-1999 Small Business Administration
'E-Commerce: Small Businesses Venture Online' uses existing research and provides an overview of small businesses’ use of e-commerce and identifies a number of issues in the expansion to e-commerce.

House Urges White House to Protect Small Business
9-Aug-1999 Federal Computer Week
The Clinton administration must work quickly to define strong regulations that will protect small businesses from the increasingly common practice of combining small individual contracts into one large pact, members of a House panel said last week.

DOD advances e-business plans
5-Jul-1999 Federal Computer Week
Logistics, retail exchange groups look to the Web to cut back paper-based inefficiencies.

Feds buy into charge cards
17-May-1999 Federal Computer Week
After years of only playing a minor role in federal information technology procurement, the government charge card has become a popular tool for agencies looking to give their employees a quick way to make simple purchases without losing the ability to track those costs.

DOD awards largest-ever electronic credit card pact
22-Jul-1998 Federal Computer Week
The Defense Department last week tagged U.S. Bancorp Payment Systems division for the largest electronic purchase card contract ever awarded - a contract that DOD expects will help the department develop electronic commerce.

USPS taps US Bank for purchase cards
20-Jul-1998 Federal Computer Week
Agency plans to move to new card-based automated reporting system

Procurement Reform Credited with Savings
1-Jun-1998 Government Technology
CAL-Card posts impressive growth by making life easier for state workers and those selling to them.

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State Tax Letters
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