Principles Of Marketing Plus 2019 Mylab Marketing With Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (17th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780135983294
Author: Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.9AC
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E-procurement plays a vital role in the current market situation. It totally changes the way of business for both the sellers and buyers. Especially the mobile procurement makes the job of the buyers easy by way of less search and effectively placing the order.
Mostly more than 70% of the companies are using the e-procurement. The workers also benefited by e-procurement as it saves more time of viewing, purchase orders and approving.
The time reduces from 10 days to 5 days in the requisition-approval-process cycle.
To discuss: The merits and demerits of e-procurement to both seller and buyer
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