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enrichment of employee skills as this serves an enabling element for the realization
benefits with e-procurement adoption which will in future improve understanding
amid users.
Furthermore is in the aspect of communication. The importance of this cannot
be over emphasized. It is a must and a requirement for e-procurement personnels
to have decent mixture of diverse abilities in communication, methodological, and
fiscal. The use of automated methods will develop and strengthen their
communication capability effectively thus enabling them to evade the traditional
techniques of face- to- face method which could likely contain unnecessary
expertise lacking methodological experiences. The adoption of e-procurement
system will also involve diverse styles of discernment so as to attain and maintain
the required skills bearing in mind that many of such skills are not obtainable
markets. This will demand training for the readiness of challenges the establishment
might be vulnerable to. Information dissemination and control is imperative for
supply managers for the reason that measureable flow and exchange of money are
commonly caused by information movements Giunipero, Handfield and Eltantawy
(2006).
Also, is that the E-procurement must be enhanced by establishment likewise
is the training personnel in this fields to be highly valued rendering the fact that the
training will at the end be advantageous to the company. The skills attained from
the training can serve as a tool for both the market and electronic businesses as
this is measured as transition from early traditional and transactional operational
approaches.
Mabert et al (2003) identified that several challenges confronting the
improvement of abilities and awareness of e-procurement team is evident in cultural
influences which are external and internal especially once personnel displays
opposition concerning the use of e- procurement which is not involved with
negotiations when transacting with steady supplier, and anxiety for loss of job due
to automated processes. At hand are certain influences which poses as hindrance to
training and user adaptation to the system which are poor description of system
with functions that marks it unpleasant, impulsive alterations in procurement order,
and deficiency in support from executives for the enforcement of system
compliance and practice.