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- Title
Best Buys.
- Authors
COLLINS, HILTON
- Abstract
The article examines the initiatives of the Florida city of St. Petersburg's purchasing department to improve its procurement process. According to Christine West, the city's Oracle electronic business solutions manager, the Purchasing and Materials Management department traditionally used a purchasing system that process requisitions and create purchase orders but was not able enter payment data into the financial system. Employees at the department started using the Oracle software and were able to reduce the process from six to about two days.
- Subjects
SAINT Petersburg (Fla.); FLORIDA; PURCHASING departments; GOVERNMENT purchasing; ORACLE software; WEST, Christine
- Publication
Government Technology, 2010, Vol 23, Issue 5, p26
- ISSN
1043-9668
- Publication type
Article