EPROCUREMENT

This course enables students to gain knowledge in setting up electronic business units, vendors, and purchasing items. They gain knowledge of how the requisition to purchase order process flow is completed. This perspective will help with implementation decisions on how to set up a system, and also creating business process practices. Course objectivesThe course will help students achieve the following objectives:

• Describe the overview and history of e-procurement
• understand and appreciate the concepts of e-procurement
• Discuss procurement in relation to e-business.
• Describe forms of e-procurement
• Explain the implementation strategies of e-procurement in Uganda’s context.