Ease is key to e-procurement use
28 August 2012
Many potentially successful e-procurement systems fail when they are deployed, delegates at the eWorld Purchasing and Supply conference were told.
Daniel Ball, marketing director of managed solutions provider Wax Digital said that a user-friendly system requiring no change in the working habits of buyers is most likely to succeed.
“If people have to change the way they do their buying, the system will be difficult to deploy and get little user uptake,” he said.
“You know you have succeeded if a...