E-Procurement Conference

Post-event Statement

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Background

While e-commerce is still used in many procurement activities, procurers are moving towards e-procurement with the use of the Internet, as e-procurement provides a better and more efficient service to the organization. While e-procurement will change and progress according to new technologies available, many e-procurement initiatives are developed without reference to well-known best practices: this creates a wide range of standards issues among different groups.

Through critical re-thinking of business processes in the private sector, buyers, suppliers, and transporter are managing to make procurement more responsive, flexible, and resilient. Therefore, private procurement is generally geared to provide the best costs-benefits balance. However, this is not always the case of public procurement where transparency and openness are paramount. This is partly because public procurement is governed by legislation, which does not apply to private procurement.

It is an ideal time to review business processes in e-government to include e-procurement and to make it more open, transparent and cost-effective. Also, steps are needed to make each country’s procurement system transparent and interoperable in a single global electronic market. The conference will review new initiatives in e-procurement and discuss ways to integrate it into an overall e-government and e-commerce system.

The conference will discuss the following topics:

• Issues and trends of e-procurement
• Review of business transaction process
• New framework of e-procurement
• Best practices of e-procurement
• E-supply chain management
• Electronic signature and security issues
• Interoperability requirements for e-procurement

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Objectives

• To review diverse business models and trends in electronic procurement in different countries.
• To examine conducive policies, legal framework and technological infrastructure for promoting e-procurement.
• To draft action plans to promote e-procurement in the countries represented

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Outputs

• About 30 trained participants in e-business and commerce
• 30 action plans to be applied in introducing and improving e-procurement
• Summary of proceedings
• Conference materials that can be converted into interactive CD-ROMs

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Participants

Decision makers in government ministries of commerce, economy, finance, or planning. Executive officers of private companies in developing countries.

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Language

English (No interpretation is provided.)

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Responsibilities

Participants are required to prepare a country report and an action plan to introduce e-procurement programs in their own country.

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Cosponsors

Cosponsors of the conference were ADB, Government of Japan, IBM, Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency, Korea Information Strategy Development Institute, Microsoft, Public Procurement Service of the Republic of Korea, Samsung SDS, and UNESCAP.