Current Practice in E-Procurement
- Overview of E-procurement trends, main players, benefits, and technology issues.
- E-commerce practicalities, systems deployment, ethical concerns, and security.
- E-Tools for procurement professionals, task management, databases, and tendering.
- Other E-commerce practices like joint buying, co-vendor rating, and reverse auctions.
- Course aims to update teams on E-procurement issues, tools, and deployment.
Overview
This one-day course aims to bring participants up to date with current E-procurement issues, tools, and deployment methods. It covers topics such as product trends, main players, benefits, supply chain automation, and ethical considerations in E-commerce. The course is designed for teams looking to enhance their E-Knowledge and integrate E-procurement into their business practices effectively.
Who should attend
Procurement Teams
Course Content
Course duration: 1 Day
Course running order
An overview of E-procurement as a product / industry
· Trends in product deployment and use in the marketplace
· Who are the main players?
· Who is using it?
· How and what for?
· What are the benefits being achieved?
· Automating supply chain management, logistics, information and transaction flows
· Managing low value purchases
· Driving cost transparency into the supply base
· Repositioning the role of procurement as market managers
· Some technology issues regarding usability
How E-commerce works in practice
· Systems deployment
· Concerns with the use of E-Procurement
· Ethical considerations
· Security / confidentiality of data
· Portals the theory
· Marketplaces – Horizontal and vertical
E-Tools for the procurement professional
· Task and workflow management
· E-databases – contract documentation and engineering
· E-tendering
· E-evaluation
· E-bill payment
Other E-commerce practices
· Co-sharing of information
· Joint buying
· Joint stocks
· Co-vendor rating
· Joint Quality Assurance
· Outsourced procurement
· Reverse auctions
Course Objectives
To bring delegates up to speed with the current issues in E-procurement including a survey of the current tools in place, current thinking regarding their use, value added and means of deployment
Who should attend?
Teams interested in updating or framing their E-Knowledge into a coherent practical framework for use in their procurement practice. Teams that are considering the use of E-procurement in their business process and want to gain some knowledge of this key area of business
Duration / Fees
A 1-day single manned course
