e-Procurement: From Strategy to Implementation

Step Two: Education on E-Procurement

It is usually worthwhile to get someone from a local university, management consultancy, or IT industry analysis group to give a short explanatory lecture on e-procurement to your executive team—its history, the key issues, and broad scenarios that have been explored in this book. It can be particularly important to help them not only to understand the strategic nature of e-procurement, but also to understand the broad trends and rapid uptake of e-procurement solutions within the economy as a whole. This education session also tends to help broaden the procurement picture, placing the process much more in a strategic, rather than tactical, light.