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E-systems gather dust, report says
Huge numbers of e-procurement systems bought by companies are lying unused, according to a report by Forrester Research.
It says 60 per cent of licenses bought by companies to use SAP e-procurement products and 40 per cent of Oracle’s licence sales have yet to be installed. The Forrester Wave eProcurement Solutions report found that less than two-thirds of Global 2000 companies are currently using an e-procurement solution. Up to a third of companies with more than 1,000 employees have still not bought an e-procurement or e-sourcing system.
The research, based on evaluations of leading e-procurement solutions vendors and user companies, reveals changes in the relative market success of different providers. Ariba continues to have the highest scores for its current “overall procurement solutions” offering, according to the report, with BasWare, Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP close behind. Oracle and SAP have closed the gap over the past year and are “competitive”.
E-procurement products, according to the report, make up the “boring but essential transactional core of any effective supplier relationship management or enterprise spend management process.” Forrester says more than 8,000 licenses have been sold since they were introduced a decade ago, indicating that they have been “widely adopted”.
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