e-Procurement

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Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce-the area that encompasses electronic buying and selling transactions between organizations and in which e-procurement is a central function-has become central to doing business effectively.

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The comprehensive guide to Web-enabled procurement. Achieving rapid ROI with e-procurement Discover start-to-finish planning and implementation strategies that work in real enterprise environments. Flexible, a gile e-procurement architectures Define technical architectures and business processes that can take advantage of rapid change and new opportunities. Electronic trading communities e-markets, auctions, reverse auctions, ex changes: who'll dominate and how will it affect you? Security and trust Overcome the security and trust obstacles that prevent many companies from fully leveraging e-procurement. Structuring the project Master e-procurement strategy, project scoping, prioritization, planning, analysis, and design.Managing change in an e-procurement projectChange management lessons learned from ERP: making sure your new processes actually get used. The complete guide to Web-enabled procurementProven solutions based on real enterprise experienceCovers every e-procurement model: sell-side, buyer-managed, vertical and horizontal e-markets, ASPs, auctions, and mor eExplores today's leading e-procurement technologies, including XMLExplains how to make e-Procurement work: in-depth, start-to-finish lifecycle coveragee-procurement is hot and important-and no wonder! Leading companies are already saving millions of dollars annually with it. Best of breed CEO's like GE's Jack Welch and Cisco's John Chambers are on record that e-procurement will save their companies millions, perhaps billions, of dollars. Now, there's a start-t o-finish guide to implementing e-procure…

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