2. E –Business :
E-business as all electronically mediated information
exchanges, both within an organization and with external stakeholders
supporting the range of business processes.
3. Procurement :
Procurement is usually responsible for the identification of
(internal) customer’s needs, translation of those needs into
specifications, management of the delivery of goods and services
and an assessment of the internal customer satisfaction
4. Agent :
An agent is a soft ware program that can perform tasks to assist
humans . On the internet agent can already be used for marketing
research by performing searches
using many search engines.
5. Software Agents (Intelligent) :
Software programs that assist humans by automation from
gathering information from the internet or exchanging data
with other agents based on parameters supplied by the user.
6. Introduction to E-Procurement
E-procurement (Electronic Procurement) is the business-to-
business (B2B) purchase and sale
of supplies and services through the Internet as well as other
information and networking systems, such as electronic data
interchange (EDI).
7. E Procurement - Context Within Supply Chain
Management:
The supply chain in its simplest terms is the route we must travel to
achieve this objective. Clearly we would wish to travel the route in
the most efficient manner i.e. in the shortest time, at minimum cost,
producing the highest quality goods and services and thereby
enabling generation of the highest profit.
8. Advantages of E-Procurement
The low cost of information and technology courtesy of the Internet
is a major advantage of e-procurement. The costs of buying or selling
as well as barriers to market entry have significantly been lowered as
operation costs are reduced. Prices are more transparent, businesses
can easily use preferred supplier networks, and there is better
balance of power between buyer and seller given that information is
much more available.
9. Disadvantages of E-Procurement
Suppliers face problems such as high training costs, the necessity of
dealing with more than one marketplace, higher risk of data
compromise and full organizational restructuring in some cases.
Some suppliers used to dealing with clients face-to-face may find
online transactions uncomfortable, since suppliers don't necessarily
know whom they are dealing with online.
10. Future E-Procurement
will save time and costs, and will increase transparency and
competition – for governments, SMEs and multi-national
corporations: if all European contracting authorities introduced
e-Procurement, annual savings could exceed.
11. PEPPOL Standards
The PEPPOL transport infrastructure uses a set of technical specifications known
as BusDox (Business Document Exchange) to allow organisations to securely and
reliably exchange electronic documents. BusDox is document agnostic, meaning
users can transfer ANY kind of XML document between ANY network.
These standardised public e-Procurement processes will save time, improve
transparency and increase competition.
12. User Groups
A valid PEPPOL transaction must facilitate trade between
contracting authorities (buyers) and one or more economic
operators (suppliers), who may be supported by different ICT
solution or service providers.
13. PEPPOL sets the standards for future
public e-Procurement with:
Electronically signed tender documents from other
member states.
One process for providing product information through
e-Catalogues.
