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One-from-Many: Buy-Side

Marketplaces and E-Procurement


• Buy-side e-marketplace: A corporate-
based acquisition site that uses reverse
auctions, negotiations, group purchasing,
or any other e-procurement method
One-from-Many: Buy-Side
Marketplaces and E-Procurement
• Procurement methods
– Buy from manufacturers, wholesalers, or retailers
from their catalogs, and possibly by negotiation
– Buy from the catalog of an intermediary that
aggregates sellers’ catalogs or buy at industrial
malls
– Buy from an internal buyer’s catalog in which
company-approved vendors’ catalogs, including
agreed upon prices, are aggregated
One-from-Many: Buy-Side
Marketplaces and E-Procurement
– Conduct bidding or tendering (a reverse auction)
in a system where suppliers compete against
each other
– Buy at private or public auction sites in which the
organization participates as one of the buyers
– Join a group-purchasing system that aggregates
participants’ demand, creating a large volume
– Collaborate with suppliers to share information
about sales and inventory, so as to reduce
inventory and stock-outs and enhance just-in-time
delivery
One-from-Many: Buy-Side
Marketplaces and E-Procurement
• Inefficiencies in traditional procurement
management
– Procurement management: The coordination
of all the activities relating to purchasing
goods and services needed to accomplish the
mission of an organization
– Maverick buying: Unplanned purchases of
items needed quickly, often at non-pre-
negotiated, higher prices
One-from-Many: Buy-Side
Marketplaces and E-Procurement

• e-procurement: The electronic acquisition


of goods and services for organizations
Benefits of E-Procurement
• Benefits of e-procurement
– Increasing the productivity of purchasing
agents
– Lowering purchase prices through product
standardization and consolidation of
purchases
– Improving information flow and management
Benefits of E-Procurement
– Minimizing the purchases made from noncontract
vendors. Improving the payment process
– Establishing efficient, collaborative supplier
relations
– Ensuring delivery on time, every time
– Reducing the skill requirements and training
needs of purchasing agents
– Reducing the number of suppliers
– Streamlining the purchasing process, making it
simple and fast
Benefits of E-Procurement
– Reducing the administrative processing cost per
order
– Improved sourcing
– Integrating the procurement process with
budgetary control in an efficient and effective way
– Minimizing human errors in the buying or
shipping process
– Monitoring and regulating buying behavior
One-from-Many: Buy-Side
Marketplaces and E-Procurement
One-from-Many: Buy-Side
Marketplaces and E-Procurement
Implementing E-Procurement
• Implementing e-procurement—major e-
procurement implementation issues
– Fitting e-procurement into the company EC
strategy
– Reviewing and changing the procurement
process itself
– Providing interfaces between
e-procurement with integrated enterprisewide
information systems such as ERP or supply chain
management (SCM)
Implementing E-Procurement
– Coordinating the buyer’s information system with
that of the sellers; sellers have many potential
buyers
– Consolidating the number of regular suppliers to
a minimum and assuring integration with their
information systems, and if possible with their
business processes
Buy-Side E-Marketplaces:
Reverse Auctions
• One of the major methods of e-procurement is
through reverse auctions (tendering or bidding
model)
request for quote (RFQ): The “invitation” to
participate in a tendering (bidding) system
• The reverse auction method is the most
common model for large MRO purchases as it
provides considerable savings
Reverse Auctions
• Conducting reverse auctions
– Thousands of companies use the reverse auction
model
– They may be administered from a company’s Web
site or from an intermediary’s site
– The bidding process may last a day or more
– Bidders may bid only once, but bidders can
usually view the lowest bid and rebid several
times
Reverse Auction:
The Process
Other E-Procurement
Methods
Other E-Procurement
Methods

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