ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT SYSTEM AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING THE ENTERPRISE'S ACTIVITY

Abstract

Urgency of the research. The main task of improving the efficiency of procurement is the introduction and development of an electronic system that can save public funds, reducing corruption, and ensuring openness, accessibility of information. Target setting. Procurement in modern conditions is carried out using competitive methods of finding suppliers. Competition is the main factor that determines the effectiveness of procurement. E-procurement becomes a tool for regulating supply and demand for enterprise products. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Well-known scientists have made a significant contribution to the theory and methodology of e-procurement development: Altsivanovych O., Afanasiev R., Brovdiy A., Ovramets Yu., Sevostyanova G., Kvach V., Tsymbalenko J., Melnikov O., Smirychynsky V., Tkachenko N., Umantsiv Y., Shatkovsky O. and others. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Despite the large number of studies in the field of electronic procurement where the authors paid considerable attention to the problems of transparency and corruption in the public and municipal sectors, the issues of improving the efficiency of electronic procurement in the context of improving the enterprise insufficiently studied. The research objective. Analysis of the functioning of the electronic procurement system in Ukraine, identification of problems in its functioning, search for ways to improve the information support of the automated system, and adaptation to the needs of modern enterprises. The statement of basic materials. The article considers the peculiarities of the e-procurement system as a tool to improve the enterprise, explores the basic principles and stages of the procurement process, examines international experience in implementing electronic procurement systems, and analyzes the main problems and abuses in the context of enterprise development. Conclusions. Given the peculiarities of the functioning of the electronic procurement system, it is necessary to improve the components that are outside the system, such as procurement planning, anti-corruption, avoidance of tender collusion and combating unjustified price increases.