This guideline addresses the question as to whether organisations
should expand their e-Procurement programmes to include commodities
that until now have not traditionally been thought of as part of
these programmes.
Examples of these commodities are Temporary Labour and Travel,
which are not traditionally put into e-Procurement Catalogues,
as well as direct materials and many items required to manage large
capital items that require assets to be managed. These commodities
- often referred to as complex goods and services - that have not
been included in the initial implementations - are often the ones
where the biggest returns on investment can be made. In addition,
the issue of linking the e-Procurement processes into demand management
may not have been addressed.
This Guideline is part of a series on e-Business and e-Procurement
produced by BuyIT. It may be seen as an extension to “Building
the Business case for e-Procurement / ROI” which is also
particularly relevant to support taking forward some of the issues
raised here.
An accompanying document, “Examples of Best Practices for
Complex Goods and Services”, gives examples from BuyIT members
of their solutions to some complex commodities. This will be changed
and added to as more Best Practice examples become available.
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