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Article: The Web Makes Procurement Management Easy, Efficient.
- Article from:
- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 10, 2000
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There isn't a company in business today that isn't looking to work more efficiently. Competition simply demands that we operate this way. When businesses look for ways to improve their efficiency, one area that often comes under the microscope is procurement of office products and services.
Many organizations enable departments or individual users to handle procurement of office-related products directly - to streamline the purchasing process and realize efficiency gains. Yet those same companies understand the importance of going beyond simple "online ordering" - by balancing the advantages of decentralized procurement with the need to prevent maverick spending ...