1. Draft the source selection criteria that might be used for evaluating proposals for providing laptops for all students, faculty, and staff at a university. Use Figure 12-5 in your textbook as a guide. Include at least five criteria and make the total weight add up to 100. Write a minimum of one-page explaining and justifying your selection and their weights.

2. Today, business is changing rapidly, especially where the internet is involved. Every enterprise needs to develop new service offerings and new technologies have to be adopted or reconfigured. Most of the service companies are tied with traditional project techniques, which include a staged approach. These stages need to be compressed and changed to meet time-to-market demands. Today every enterprise must be agile enough to respond with changing requirements of their customers. Agility has become “the” basic key attribute as business faces uncertain and volatile environments. E-Procurement makes it possible to automate buying and selling over the internet. Typically, an e-Procurement-enabled website will have product comparisons across vendors and various processes like tendering, auctioning, vendor management, and catalogue and contract management. High-end e-procurement solutions allow organizations to define their own processes in the form of workflows, thus utilizing concepts of business process modeling.

For this research exercise, present the findings from a recent survey on e-procurement in India. Explain how an e-procurement can be used in a fast growing organization to speed up the business activity at the suitable agility level and what the impact on centralization and firm’s efficiency will be in the procurement process.

Read the abstract and then the paper by Kalbande, et al. The paper is concerned with E-Procurement for Increasing Business Process Agility.

E-Procurement for Increasing Business Process Agility

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After reading Kalbande’s paper, write a minimum of one-page APA style paper. The paper should have the following sections: Summary of your understanding of the paper; your critique of the paper (whether you agree or not with the authors, and why; References. You may use the World Wide Web and/or journal publication pertaining to the subject to support your arguments.

Integrate and identify (with) the concepts from your textbook and the module/course content in your research exercise paper. The heading for the last section of your paper should include an “Author’s Reflection” (your reflection) critiquing of the journal, publication, article, website, or situation examined.  Be sure to use newly acquired terminology.