Table talk
13 September 2012
Amid all the hype, the benefits and dangers of e-procurement are not always clear. SM invited a panel of experts to shed some light and to debate what it means for the profession
(GJ) Geraint John: To start things off, would anybody like to venture a definition of what we mean by e-procurement?
(IT) Ian Taylor: I can suggest what it has come to mean, which is the collection of processes around placing orders, invoices, catalogues and a bit of auctioneering. But to my mind that’s only part of the process. Perhaps we need to...