E-Procurement Strategies Course

This course will demonstrate how ICT can be used to optimize procurement performance and how procurement processes and management can be ‘e’-enabled. It will describe the development of appropriate and sustainable e-procurement strategies in a phased approach.

CONTENT

Procurement Process

    - Contract Process

    - System Evaluation and Selection

e-Procurement Tools and Application

    - Electronic Mall (mail)

    - World Wide Web (www)

    - EDI (Electronic Data interchange)

Procurement Cycle in e-Procurement

    - E-Sourcing

    - E-Tendering

   - E-Ordering

   Legal Aspects of E-Procurement

   - Procurement Acts

   - Regulatory Frameworks

   - International Procurements

e-Procurement Strategy

  - Costs

  - Benefits

FOR WHOM:

Stores, Purchasing and Logistics Personnel in the Public and Private Sectors.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.