Question

Of critical importance when learning at the graduate level particularly in MBA programs is practical experience. Given the time constraints it is not easily feasible to invite guest speakers so the opportunity to conduct an interview becomes valuable.

In this class you will need to identify someone in an organization who is either responsible for or at least involved in the process of procurement (even if they only occasionally participate). Ideally, the type of procurements should be projects but if this is not feasible, other procurement types can be considered.

Assignment

1. Identify someone involved in procurement at an organization and indicate there position and the nature of the business. Students need to email me for approval giving the person’s position as it relates to procurement as well as the nature of the business (it is fine to maintain confidentiality).

2. Briefly present the nature of business at the organization.

3. Indicate the structure & process of procurements.

4. Conduct the interview indicating the length of time for the interview.

5. Determine relevant aspects of procurement according to what you have learned in lectures and from the two textbooks. (You should address key topics particularly as they relate to Project Procurement. (Insure in your report the sections of the interview related to course procurement topics).

6. Provide a critique of what is positive and negative about the results of the interview.

7. Submit the project assignment according to the announcement in made in class.

8. The paper should be 3-5 pages (single spaced).

what is kind of info you need ... i sent all info that i have it ..please .if you cant help me please say because i do not have a lot of time  

Answer 1

1. I am selecting Mr. Woods for this project. He is the purchase head of Amazon Inc. for Cannada.

2. Amazon is an online retail business with its presence in over 50 countries.

3. Amazon is having very much functional organizational structure. The framework relies on corporate objectives as the basis for assessing the relationships between the organization's components.

Currently Amazon Business provides a range of procurement tools for any form of company and enterprise. We also offer business-only pricing cuts, simple and convenient delivery, multi-user accounts, flexible payment choices and a broad variety of product types. Payment by invoice, inventory curation, and Coupa Open Buy, a method that streamlines Amazon Company orders for businesses using a Coupa procurement system, are new features. However, the accounts are secure. In a world where speed, performance and cost savings are important, Amazon could be on to.

Amazon appears to be the latest, ahead-of-the-curve purchasing approach with such a robust, effective, and powerful method. Today, procurement software has been the reigning buying tool for companies, and although it has grown in prominence over the last few decades, it is usually expensive. In reality, ProcurementIQ predicts the total price of procurement applications to be $375 per customer in 2018, which is projected to continue to grow to 2021 over the three years. Furthermore, since it must be revised periodically, recruitment software may be impossible for certain organizations to manage.

4. The length of the interview was about 42 minutes.

5. I have learned about the way amazon simplified the Negotiation and Quotation Requests process. The automated process not only reduces the time but also ranks it against thousands of other similar requisitions done by Amazon at other places. Thus, this simplified the whole process and reducing the time to just few seconds.