A case study on factors influencing E-procurement system implementation.

Abstract

With high competitive in Global industry, innovation, timeliness, cost-efficiency and risk management are the key success factors on sustainable growth. E-Procurement system has turned out to be one IT tool as a part on driven this success to develop partnership with key suppliers by sharing data and forecasts, to get quotations, or even hold auctions to achieve key benefits including sustained value and savings, improved control procurement processes (Compliance and Policy processes), provision of critical management information and optimization of procurement transaction cost. However, it is not just technology implementation but mainly change management to ensure full compliance and the realization of the above benefits.How can organizations best prepare themselves to increase implementation success and organizational change? It is to explore how change was managed through Kotter case study of how a global organization implemented the e-Procurement will be analysed through a qualitative research approach.