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e-Procurement Signs on to Multimedia Contracts

Overview Systems and applications based on new technical advancements have tantalized and often fulfilled their promises of enabling entities to gain greater efficiency over current processes. In fact, many wonder how they got anything done before the mass adoption of e-mail, voice mail and electronic facsimile. The truth, however, is that modern technology also brings with it a number of complexities. Often, the very technologies designed to make the jobs easier can unexpectedly drive down an entity's productivity in unforeseen ways. Nowhere is this more evident than in modern contracting systems.

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Publisher	Penton Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2003	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Procurement and Sourcing

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