The 10 nuggets of e-wisdom
13 September 2012
It looked like a path to riches when it emerged, but online purchasing has had its pitfalls. Jim Abery and Craig Glindemann explain where businesses got lost along the way
When e-procurement technology arrived on the procurement profession's radar in the late 1990s, the promise seemed simple: companies would save millions simply by buying only from preferred suppliers and established corporate contracts, all delivered to the desktop of the user through easy-to-use, web-based catalogue technology. It would be the end of so-called "...