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Recent research has highlighted a ‘you go first’ approach towards e-procurement from buyers and suppliers. Adam Jacobs of Cataloga discusses the implications.
E-procurement’s critical Catch-22 - Part 2 | Part 1
Suppliers may recognise this requirement but are distracted by the huge technological challenges associated with producing multiple-format e-catalogues. In our survey, 90% of respondents identified content management issues as being the biggest single obstacle to e-procurement.
Fran Howarth, research director of e-business at the Aberdeen Group, recently said: “Catalogue content management has been identified as a major point of pain for companies seeking to join e-procurement implementations or online marketplaces. A recent survey by the Aberdeen Group indicated that companies are spending on average more than $200,000 on automating their catalogues, a fact that is prompting organisations to use a third party for managing this process.
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