(a) adopting a strategic approach to procurement

Procurement constitutes a strategic function of the United Nations and its funds and programmes, which in 2002, together accounted for 85 per cent of total procurement expenditure of the organizations.

It focuses on strategic issues most likely to contribute to enhancing the cost effectiveness of the procurement process within and among the organizations, namely cooperation and coordination, electronic procurement and capacity building.

Implementation of the strategic deployment stocks, including the functioning of the existing mechanisms and the award of contracts for procurement

Specifically, the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office will make specific and strategic efforts to promote the use of suppliers from developing countries to ensure a wider distribution of supply sources (para. UNDP will progressively introduce mandatory procurement plans by September 2007 (para.

Context The most common application of reverse auctions is for E procurement, a strategy used by purchasing as part of strategic sourcing and other supply management activities.

Viewed in terms of cost effectiveness, if not of common sense, the need to outsource the procurement function to a sister agency, especially under common services arrangements discussed further on in the report, would seem crucial where procurement is a tactical rather than a strategic function.

The JIU report presents a system wide analysis of the status of procurement services and practices within the organizations of the United Nations system, with a focus on the strategic issues that are most likely to influence the cost effectiveness and reform of the procurement process in that system.

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(g) Report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the strategic deployment stocks, including the functioning of the existing mechanisms and the award of contracts for procurement (A 59 701)

Takes note of the report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the strategic deployment stocks, including the functioning of existing mechanisms and the award of contracts for procurement 2

Procurement management

Procurement Unit

Procurement planning

Procurement reform

Procurement report

Procurement opportunities

Thirdly, it should considerably facilitate procurement reform and the pooling of procurement services.

The Procurement Goldmine

Public sector procurement

Overview of procurement

C. Procurement workshops

E. Procurement guidelines

Procurement and contracting

Procurement training initiative

Common procurement services

Electronic procurement methods

UNDP Inter Agency Procurement Services Office (IAPSO) already has an advanced e procurement platform.

The EU partly shares America s strategic objective here, because it, too, has grievances against emerging powers in terms of market access, compliance with intellectual property rights, access to government procurement, and subsidies to state companies.

The Procurement Services should investigate ways in which the procurement plan can be enhanced as a tool in the management of the entire procurement process.

About 20 per cent of such procurement is performed by field based peacekeeping procurement units.

61 246. Procurement reform

57 279. Procurement reform

Procurement at international organizations

Procurement and contract management

H. Procurement staff training

Subsequently renamed Procurement Service.

(h) Procurement and supply

Rationalization of procurement practices

Distribution of procurement activities

In the meantime, the Procurement Service will organize a second round of the advanced field procurement training programme to upgrade skills of procurement staff in the field missions.

Most of the organizations currently use e procurement for displaying or posting procurement information on their web sites, including procurement guidelines, and for communicating with suppliers and clients.