e-Procurement: From Strategy to Implementation

Strategy Phase

Although many companies have established annual retreats and strategic planning days to help executive teams develop their marketing strategy (and therefore often mistakenly believe that they have already done the “strategic planning stuff”), it is important that before beginning any major enterprise-wide e-procurement initiative, the key organizational leaders convene to discuss and agree on the way forward. Usually completed in a workshop setting with 10 to 12 key organizational leaders attending—who should be all company officers, including the CEO—this forum provides an opportunity for the executive group to become educated on the many aspects of e-procurement; to debate and agree on the case for action; to consider the need ...