The Power of Data Analytics: A Spend Analysis of E-Procurement in UN Agency

Abstract

The objective of this business project to examined special effects of Electronic Procurement (E- Procurement) on the performance of the procurement function of UN Agency. It is hoped the result of this study will enable the Agency to increase their competitiveness. The study concludes that E-procurement is statistically significant and influences performance of UN Agency. The study found that there is existence of a positive association of e-procurement to performance of UN Agency. The business project findings reveal that majority of the organizational defendants indicated that E-procurement process influences performance of procurement function in the organization largely. The research used descriptive research design seeking to unveil the effect that E-procurement has on organizational performance of UN Agency, more specifically in UNDP. Data is analyze using Excel. The analyzed data is interprets and present in pivot tables, and charts. Analyses done in business project by excel to test the relationship variance between the independent variables and dependent variables. The research recommends that UN Agency should use a standard e procurement procedure to ensure high levels of performance. There is need to conduct further a similar project in other organizations for attempts to compare the findings. There also exists gap for a business project on the challenges facing implementation of e-procurement in organizations.