- Demonstrates how to develop a successful e-sourcing and e-negotiation strategy using insights from Maersk's award winning program
- Explains e-auctions, when and how they should be applied and their numerous benefits
- Features practical learnings from more than 10,000 e-sourcing programmes across all spend categories
- Provides a new perspective on the future of e-auctions which includes the increased development of AI and Robotic Process Automation within the negotiation discipline
A Practical Guide to E-auctions for Procurement
How to Maximize Impact with e-Sourcing and e-Negotiation
Understand how to integrate eNegotiation and eSourcing into your procurement strategy with examples of successful implementation from Maersk.
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EAN: 9781398600287
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 233x157
272 pages
About the book
WINNER: 2021 Plume d'Or - Grand Prix ACA-Bruel Award.
A Practical Guide to E-Auctions for Procurement provides guidance to procurement professionals on how to realize the potential of e-auctions.
Now is the time to optimize your e-negotiation strategy using key insights from the author Jacob Gorm Larsen, who is responsible for one of the most successful and award-winning e-sourcing programs in the world.
A Practical Guide to E-Auctions for Procurement presents a proven process for developing an e-auction and e-negotiation strategy, along with a catalogue of change management initiatives for securing buy-in internally in the organization. The different e-auction formats and benefits are explained in detail and demonstrated with practical examples, templates and advice that can be adopted by the reader.
Jacob and the team at Maersk are at the forefront when it comes to developing robots that execute e-auctions from end-to-end and are kicking off a transformation that will fundamentally change how we consider e-auctions and negotiations. In addition, with learnings from more than 10,000 e-auctions globally, this is the book for those in procurement looking to implement, deliver and maintain a thriving e-auction program.
About the authors
Jacob Gorm Larsen is Head of Digital Procurement in Maersk with responsibility for the execution of the digital transformation of procurement. For the past 15 years he has been part of the procurement team at Maersk including responsibility for developing and operating the e-sourcing program for more than a decade.
With electronic forms of negotiation set to increase in our app-enabled digital businesses of the future, Jacob-Gorm Larsen has written a timely, comprehensive, myth-busting and principled guide to using e-auctions for cost-effective supplier selection.
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