Electronic Procurement Implementation Research Articles

EVALUASI KINERJA PEGAWAI BAGIAN PENGADAAN BARANG/JASA UNTUK OPTIMALISASI PENGADAAN MELALUI E-PURCHASING

The Goods/Services Procurement Section of Temanggung Regency Regional Secretariat is a government agency whose main task is to facilitate and assist all Regional Apparatus Organizations or Organisasi Perangkat Daerah (OPD) in Temanggung Regency. in the implementation of electronic Procurement Services at the Regional Secretariat of Temanggung Regency through e-purchasing are still not up to the planned target. The lack of willingness to conduct procurement through e-purchasing because they are still used to carry out procurement manually, the lack of human resources, there are also employees who feel that using e-purchasing still takes a lot of time since they also have to work in other units per the assignment letter given by superiors and the reason of inefficient implementation in e- Purchasing is shopping prices are becoming more expensive than the conventional ones, that is the problem that researchers found in this study. The purpose of this research is to identify the factors that impede employee performance in implementing e-purchasing in Temanggung Regency and to formulate strategies that need to be developed to optimize employee performance in implementing e-purchasing in Temanggung Regency. this study uses descriptive qualitative research carried out at LPSE Temanggung Regency. Researchers wish that this research can be useful theoretically, namely knowing the factors in employee performance in the implementation of Electronic Procurement in Temanggung Regency and can be some input for officials or officers at the Procurement Service Unit or Unit Layanan Pengadaan (ULP) in the scope of Temanggung Regency and will be practically useful for Regional Government, also can be a reference for government agencies in optimizing employee performance in the implementation of Electronic Procurement and can be a reference in the form of theoretical knowledge and concepts for further research related to Performance Improvement in the implementation of Electronic Procurement in other government agencies.

VIEŠŲJŲ PIRKIMŲ SKAIDRUMAS KAIP ĮSTATYMŲ LEIDĖJĄ SAISTANTIS PRINCIPAS

Public procurement is one of the most important spheres of activities, controlled by the state. The state directly affects the market by using the tool of public procurement and becoming a participant in the procurement of services (supplies, works). Public procurement, considering its scale, has achieved an important significance as the market regulation tool and has a considerable impact on the whole economy of the state.Transparency and openness in public procurement – a priority goal of every government. Normally the principle of transparency imposes additional difficulties and administrative burden for contracting authorities. Moreover, in the face of economic-financial crisis any amendment of legal regulation, aggravating the status quo, generates additional economic tension between contracting authorities, suppliers and other entities. Therefore, all measures, assigned to the achievement of the goal of transparency, should be proportional and adequate.Successful implementation of electronic procurement shall be regarded as a positive result of the activities of the Fifteenth Government – electronic procurement implies adequate transparency, openness as well as economy, rationality of public procurement procedures. However, considering harsh economic situation, incapability to implement procedures of electronic auction in practice, to renounce publication of certain information regarding public procurement in the supplement Informaciniai pranešimai to the official gazette Valstybės žinios in a timely manner, incapacity to solve the problem of acquisitions of political parties appropriately account for failures of this Government.However, even bigger problems were created by systemic flaws of governmental activities. Under ruling of the Fifteenth Government legal regulation has become exceptionally unstable and chaotic. The chosen model of regulation is criticized as well: most changes in legal regulation, first of all, were adopted in a post-legislative form, making new regulation applicable solely to contracting authorities, subordinate or subject to the Government (at times – even without a proper evaluation that existing legal framework is not suitable for new post-legislative regulation), later on such regulation transforming into legislative regulation legally binding on all contracting authorities. Such flaws of law making and legislation caused a situation, where legal regulation became exclusively complicated, confused, contradictory and incomprehensible. It can obviously be stated that regulation of public procurement has been a process of attempts and correction of subsequent mistakes without a coherent and comprehensible strategy. Such a mess makes it difficult to ascertain which values were priorities for governments in the field of public procurement during the observed period.

Actor-to-actor dissemination of electronic procurement (EP) adoption: an exploration of influencing factors

The merits of electronic procurement (EP) tools have been widely acknowledged. Achieving these benefits remains a challenge, as companies are experiencing difficulties with human adoption during the implementation of such tools. In this article we focus on the intra-organizational spread of EP adoption from one actor to another. Based on exploratory interviews with experts and representatives of large Dutch purchasing organizations, we have identified nine categories of influences on actor-to-actor dissemination: perceived advantage, communication, demonstration, enforcement, training, involvement, risk reduction, reward, and disposition. This study is beneficial to companies engaging in the implementation of EP tools as it provides a portfolio of interventions that can be used to stimulate the spread of adoption. This article addresses a new area in EP research and opens up possibilities for future research in EP implementation.

E-procurement maturity in industry

This paper aims to examine the use and implementation of electronic procurement for indirect material in eight large global companies, and investigate what kinds of barriers exist towards electronic procurement. The empirical evidence comes from interviews with e-procurement experts and operatives in eight global firms. Results show that three out of eight companies are using e-procurement and four are planning to do so in the future. Barriers shown by the empirical material are lack of technological standard, different IT-maturity among suppliers, resistance among users to leaving old suppliers, lack of support from top management, differences in language, culture and legal systems. Other barriers found are getting suppliers to update and control the electronic product catalogues and to monitor them and getting the users in the organisation to use the system.