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Factors Affecting Adoption of E-Procurement in Private Companies in Tanzania: The case of TBL Mwanza Plant

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dc.creator Nziku, Dismas
dc.creator Siwandeti, Meshack
dc.date 2019-03-22T05:55:04Z
dc.date 2019-03-22T05:55:04Z
dc.date 2019-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T08:35:12Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T08:35:12Z
dc.identifier Dismas Nziku and Meshack Siwandeti (2019), Paper Title: Factors Affecting Adoption of E-Procurement in Private Companies in Tanzania: The case of TBL Mwanza Plant. Business Education Journal (BEJ),
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/148
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/79439
dc.description E-procurement refers to the use of internet-based (integrated) information and communication technology (ICT) to carry out individual or all stages of the procurement process. The Overall objective of this study was to examine the factors affecting adoption of e-procurement strategy in private companies, taking TBL as case study. The Questionnaires, interview and documentary collection were used in this study: three factors reviewed and critically analyzed using quantitative research approach and presented in percentages, which are the Technological, Organizational, and Environmental factors (T-O-E). The study findings revealed ample evidence that Private companies in Tanzania can adopt e-procurement and enjoy the fruits of this new technology like customer service level improvement, procurement cost reduction, inventory optimizations, buyer/supplier collaboration by direct operational links and easier audits and compliance significantly by the institutions. The study conclude and recommends private institutions to develop Web Service-Based, domain-specific application framework that will enable private companies to quickly and easily build and deploy robust, secure, scalable, manageable, interoperable, portable and lawful e-Procurement. Applications using a good e-procurement software system as it would help them greatly reduce the time and effort required to complete purchasing transactions by eliminating traditional paper chain of requisitions, approvals, receiving, payment reconciliation and reduces face to face interaction hence lower risk of corruption.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education (CBE)
dc.relation Volume 2;Issue No: 2
dc.subject Procurement, E- Procurement, Technology, IT-Infrastructure, IT - System
dc.title Factors Affecting Adoption of E-Procurement in Private Companies in Tanzania: The case of TBL Mwanza Plant
dc.type Article


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