e-Procurement: From Strategy to Implementation

The Pros

For Buyers

The pros of e-procurement for buying organizations have already been discussed, but these are worth looking at again. For ORM and the majority of MRO, whether an enterprise solution or a subscription to an ASP or a trading portal, all purchasing can be done by employees from the desktop, saving hours of comparison browsing and misordering. This approach frees up purchasing specialists for work on strategic sourcing, and also provides an easy and effective alternative for maverick buying. Overall, these desktop requisition systems for indirect goods save time, and through reduced labor costs, on-contract buying, and best-price purchasing, also save money.

E-market exchanges and auctions—again, particularly within the context ...