Articles and resources aimed at those
with advanced knowledge of e-procurement.
About
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Argyll
and Bute Council’s adoption of
an eProcurement system for suppliers
of services (rather than goods), the
first of which was West Coast Tool and
Plant Hire. The culmination of the overall
project by Argyll and Bute council was “the
largest quantity of suppliers formally
adopted under the eProcurement Scotland
model…”. |
Focus
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The implementation
of an electronic system on the buyer
and supplier side from scratch and following
the eProcurement Scotland model and guidelines.
Particular focus on the preparation of
the supplier – West Coast Tool
and Plant Hire Ltd and how it effected
them as a company and in the context
of supplying the Local Authorities. |
Why
it's useful
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This is an example
of an advanced implementation within
a public sector e-procurement projects.
It examines the difficulties that arose
from e-enabling a supplier organisation
with no prior electronic systems in place.
It considers the process from the point
of view of updating the organisation’s
day-to-day systems and the overall benefits
of installing accurate electronic cataloguing
to work beyond that of supplying the
local authority. This is a useful case
study for those who have a prior understanding
of eProcurement and would like to read
about practical examples. |
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areas of use
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About
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The e-Procurement
section of www.buyitnet.org contains
an ongoing selection of guidelines on
e-procurement for companies. In particular
this section contains an excellent starting
point in the form of Patricia Hewitt’s “Building
the Business Case for e-Procurement”.
This is followed by a number of more
specific guidelines. |
Focus
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Organisations that
want to build a business case for e-procurement |
Why
it's useful
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Building the Business
Case for e-Procurement is a popular document
on the subject for companies embarking,
or considering embarking on e-procurement. |
Particular
areas of use
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This document is
aimed at managers and heads of purchasing
organisations, but at 25 pages it covers
each element of introducing e-procurement
into a business and the benefits and
risks of each. Being concise yet comprehensive
it worth reading the full document (25
pages), however there is a 7 page executive
summary. |
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About
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The general state of procurement
and e-procurement in the UK |
Focus
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Loosely comparing e-procurement between US
and UK |
Why
it's useful
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An article that outlines the revelations about
UK and US procurement plans and projects from the eWorld Purchasing
and Supply Conference in London in 2004. It outlines the typical
strengths and weaknesses displayed by UK/European Companies, as
compared with US Companies. |
Particular
areas of use
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2/3s of the article applies the phrases “something
old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” as
a description of procurement on both sides of the Atlantic, and
then expands on each fragment of the phrase to enlarge on major
features, common problems, strengths, weaknesses, cases in point,
to demonstrate the its ongoing growth and development and how issues
are overcome. |
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www.digitalunion.com/... |
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