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Key factors for
E-Procurement implementation
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While e-procurement offers many quantifiable benefits, it still
poses many issues that must be carefully considered before implementing a specific solution.
Effectively addressing these issues will help ensure both a rapid and a complete implementation—one that will
help your organization realize all the benefits of e-procurement, including a lower initial system
investment and an increased return on your investment.
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Consider these questions before you choose an e-procurement
solution or provider, and consider how your answers will help you minimize the risks and maximize
the rewards of your new system:
Is my organization ready for e-commerce?
Do you already have an e-commerce strategy? How will
e-procurement integrate into that strategy? If you don’t have an e-commerce strategy in place, how
can you build one that will support e-procurement as well as all future e-commerce activities?
How will I bring my suppliers on board?
E-procurement will change the buyer/seller relationship.
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How will your current supplier relationships need to
change to maximize the e-procurement solution? What
strategies must be developed to build and maintain
those relationships?
How will my current
procurement processes need to change to maximize
e-procurement?
Is your business model aligned with your system
model? Where are the gaps and how can they be closed?
How can I create a scalable
infrastructure that will support future growth?
Industry studies indicate that e-procurement is
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poised for explosive growth.
Factors driving this growth include the number of buyers and suppliers
participating, increased accessibility to authorized users throughout an
organization, improvements in Internet e-commerce software, and organizational
growth.
This translates into increased transaction volume that can easily overwhelm the
capacity of an e-procurement system. Will your current infrastructure support
e-procurement?
Is your hardware configuration scalable to support
additional servers, processors, and an increase in
transactional volume? Note that e-procurement software
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addition of custom or third party
applications, as well as easy
integration with your current back
office systems, as the needs of your
marketplace change. |
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