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E-procurement
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E-procurement (electronic procurement,
sometimes also known as supplier
exchange) is the business-to-business or
business-to-consumer or business-togovernment purchase and sale of
supplies, work, and services through the
Internet as well as other information and
networking systems, such as electronic
data interchange and enterprise resource
planning.
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E-procurement
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The e-procurement value chain consists of
indent management, eTendering,
eAuctioning, vendor management,
catalogue management, Purchase Order
Integration, Order Status, Ship Notice,
eInvoicing, ePayment, and contract
management
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E-procurement
Elements of e-procurement include
request for information, request for
proposal, request for quotation, RFx (the
previous three together), and eRFx
(software for managing RFx projects).
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E-procurement - In the public sector
Public sector organisations use eprocurement for contracts to achieve benefits
such as increased efficiency and cost savings
(faster and cheaper) in government
procurement and improved transparency (to
reduce corruption) in procurement services.
E-procurement in the public sector has seen
rapid growth in recent years. Act 590 of
Louisiana's 2008 Regular Legislative Session
requires political subdivisions to make
provisions for the receipt of electronic bids.
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E-procurement - In the public sector
E-procurement in the public sector is
emerging internationally. Hence, initiatives
have been implemented in Singapore, UK,
USA, Malaysia, Australia and European
Union. E-procurement projects are often part
of the country’s larger e-Government efforts
to better serve its citizens and businesses in
the digital economy. For example,
Singapore’s GeBIZ was implemented as one
of the programmes under its e-Government
masterplan.
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E-procurement - Vendors
This field is populated by two types of
vendors: big enterprise resource planning
(ERP) providers which offer eprocurement as one of their services, and
the more affordable services focused
specifically of e-procurement.
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E-procurement - E-procurement systems
An e-procurement system manages
tenders through a web site. This can be
accessed anywhere globally and has
greatly improved the accessibility of
tenders. An example is the System for
Acquisition Management (SAM), which
on July 30, 2013 combined information
from the former Central Contractor
Registration and Online Representations
and Certifications Application (ORCA),
in the United States.
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Sylvia Kierkegaard - Recent publications
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Going, Going, Gone! E-Procurement
in the EU International (2006) Journal
of Computing and Information
Sciences – (IJCIS) Volume 4 – Number
1 – April 2006
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Spend management
In an enterprise, spend management is
managing how to spend money to best effect
in order to build products and services. The
term is intended to encompass such
processes as outsourcing, procurement, eprocurement, and supply chain management.
Since the "spend manager" could have a
significant impact on a company's results, it
has been advocated that this manager have
a senior voice in running the company.
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Spend management - Spend management systems
Most recently, companies have been
utilizing new tools such as e-sourcing (for
bidding and reverse auction), eprocurement (to control and monitor
purchasing activities and contracts), and
e-spend analytics (to gain insight into how
much money is being spent on what types
of services or products). Some tools are
also addressing the entire spending chain,
or purchase-to-pay cycle. Some of the
newer spend management solutions are
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Electronic commerce - Types of e-commerce
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Web-based purchasing policies increase
the transparency of the procurement
process (and reduces the risk of
irregularities). To date, however, the size
of the B2G e-commerce market as a
component of total e-commerce is
insignificant, as government eprocurement systems remain
undeveloped.
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Sustainable procurement - Policy development
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On December 8, 2006 the Greater London Authority
became the first public-sector body to publish a
sustainable procurement
policy,http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/tenders/docs/susta
inable-procurement.pdf The GLA Group Sustainable
Procurement Policy promising to award a “distinct
competitive advantage” to those companies which
demonstrated a commitment to sustainable
procurement
concerns.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b2a1cdec-866011db-86d5-0000779e2340.html Financial Times,
December 8, 2006, 'Diversity linked to London
contracts' The policy reflected the Ken
Livingstone|Mayor’s enthusiasm for public
procurement as a tool for fostering social inclusion,
equality and environmental
objectives.
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Purchase-to-pay - History
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The term emerged in the 1990s and is one
of a number of buzzword|buzz phrases
(like Business-to-business|B2B, B2C, G2C
etc.) that emerged as Internet applications
became used more widely in business.
Although it does not necessarily refer
directly to the application of technology to
the purchasing process, it is most often
used in relation to applications like eprocurement and ERP purchasing and
payment modules.
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Purchase-to-pay - A discipline in its own right
This was driven primarily by the
supply chain software vendors and
consultants as well as by governments
who had recognised and
enthusiastically embraced concepts
like e-procurement
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Reverse auction
In business, the term most commonly
refers to a specific type of auction process
(also called 'procurement auction', 'eauction', 'sourcing event', 'e-sourcing' or
'eRA', 'eRFP', 'e-RFO', 'e-procurement',
'B2B Auction') used in government or
private sector Tendering|procurement.
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Reverse auction - Context
The most common application of
reverse auctions is for E-procurement,
a strategy used by purchasing as part
of strategic sourcing and other supply
management activities.
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Chief Procurement Officer
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Globalization, compliance pressures,
supply market risk and Eprocurement|procurement
automation have simultaneously
elevated the visibility of the
procurement discipline within
companies and increased supply
management challenges
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Ariba - Past acquisitions and competitors
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In April, 2013, Ariba partnered with
MedAssets to extend the latter's
supply chain management and
outsourced procurement
functionalities. The Paypers. “[
http://www.thepaypers.com/news/einvoicing-scf-e-procurement/aribateams-up-with-medassets/750738-24
Ariba teams up with MedAssets].”
April 9, 2013. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
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Universal Business Language - Northern European Subset - NESUBL
As part of the Northern European
cooperation on e-commerce and eprocurement, representatives from
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland,
UK and Iceland set up a working
group for developing a Northern
European subset of UBL 2.0
documents
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Call for bids - Locating tenders
Public sector organizations are legally
obliged to release tenders for works and
services. In the majority of cases, these
are listed on their websites and traditional
print media. Electronic procurement and
tendering systems or e-procurement are
also increasingly prevalent.
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Advanced Business Solutions - History
The acquisitions of Eprocurement|eProcurement company Belmin[
http://www.fsn.co.uk/channel_enterprise_finan
cials/news/coa_solutions_acquires_eprocurem
ent_specialist_belmin.htm FSN Article about
COA Solutions purchasing Belmin] in February
2008 and HR specialist ASR Computers in April
2008[
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/0
4/10/45345/coa-solutions-acquires-uk-hrsoftware-firm-asr-computers.html
Personneltoday.com article about COA
Solutions purchasing ASR Computers] were
completed
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Defence Procurement Agency - History
The Defence Procurement Agency was
established on April 1, 1999, after the
announcement in the Strategic Defence
Review of a specialised agency to succeed the
MoD Procurement
Executive.[http://hansard.millbanksystems.co
m/written_answers/1999/mar/31/defenceprocurement-agency Defence Procurement
Agency] Hansard, 31 March 1999 As of April 1,
2007 the Agency was merged with the Defence
Logistics Organisation to form a new
organisation called Defence Equipment and
Support.[http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/M
icroSite/DES/OurPublications/DeandsInBrief.ht
m DES
in Brief]
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Wholesale
However, with the advent of the
internet and e-procurement there are
an increasing number of wholesalers
located nearer to the manufacturers in
China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
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Drop shipping - Developments
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Since 2006 many drop ship companies have
emerged in China, many of which offer
wholesale and drop shipping services to both
companies and individuals. This is largely
due to the increasing ease of e-procurement
and the growing part that the internet is
playing in e-commerce. Drop ship suppliers
based in China have increasingly been able
to compete with same-country distributors
because of improved logistics for small
packets and the easing of trade barriers.
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GEP Worldwide - Acquisition
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In 2012, GEP acquired Enporion, a supply
chain management company based in
Tampa, Florida. Enporion provided
strategic sourcing and e-procurement
applications, and served customers in the
electric and gas utilities, manufacturing
and distribution industries.
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EGovernment in Europe - Cyprus
The E-procurement|eProcurement
legislation in Cyprus has been put into
force at the beginning of 2006. At a latter
stage, the eProcurement system was
implemented based on the provisions of
the specific law (N.12(I)2006). The system
aims to support the electronic publication
and evaluation of tenders, and is available
free of charge for all contractors in the
Republic of Cyprus and all economic
operators in Cyprus and abroad.
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EGovernment in Europe - Malta
* developing and
offering an Eprocurement system;
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EGovernment in Europe - Portugal
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The national e-Procurement portal, which
is currently merely an information tool, is
destined to become the central
procurement mechanism for the entire
Portuguese public administration.
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Procurement software
While traditionally most e-procurement
software systems have been designed for
larger organizations, there are now also
systems available for the SMB market,
such as the Free-Procurement Project by
SpendMap
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Public procurement - The Procurement G6
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The 'Procurement G6' is an informal
group of the six national Central
Purchasing Bodies, leaders on Eprocurement|e-procurement and
framework agreements. Known as the
MMGP - Multilateral Meeting on
Government Procurement. Members
of the Procurement G6 are:
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Samsung iMarketKorea
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Samsung iMarketKorea is Korea's leading
business to business e-procurement
service provider. The company manages
over one million products with a turnover
of 979 billion Won as of 2007.
Internationally, iMarketKorea operates in
North America, South America, Asia, and
Europe.
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Centre for Railway Information Systems - Major IR projects
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#E-Procurement System: Provides a
secure, fair and transparent method of
materials procurement through a webbased interface
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Caribbean (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy - Regional Integration Electronic Public Procurement System
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Component 1 – National Government
Procurement Frameworks: Analysis,
Comparison and Recommended
Improvements; Component 2 –
Collection and Analysis of
Government Procurement Statistics;
and Component 3 – Recommendations
for a Regional Best-practice Regime
for Government
Procurement.[http://roselawcaribbea
n.com/csme-procurement/ CSME and
Procurement]
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