E-Supply Chain Management Practices and Operational Performance of Hospitals of Kiambu County in Kenya (Published)
Health care supply chain management is vital to ensure good service to patients in a cost-optimized manner. In Kenya inadequacies and inefficiencies such: chronic stock outs of medicine, pilferage of medicine in public hospitals, expired stocks, late deliveries, lengthy periods during treatment; plague the Health Care supply chain system. This study examined the effect of E-supply chain practices on operational efficiency of hospitals in the County of Kiambu in Kenya, in a survey of 39 hospitals. The study revealed that adoption of the hospital management information system; Electronic procurement; and E-logistics practices; significantly and positively affects operational performance. The study observes that most public hospitals have not adopted E-supply chain practices; and avers this could explain the challenges facing public hospitals such as long queues, pilferage and long queues in public hospitals. The study recommends adoption of E-supply chain Practices; and invites researchers to examine the shallow adoption of E-supply chain practices in Public Hospitals.
Keywords: E-Procurement, E-supply chain practices, Operational Performance, health care supply chain
Factors Influencing Implementation of E- Procurement: A Case Study of Small and Medium Size Businesses in Voi Town (Published)
This paper has researched on the factors influencing implementation of e-procurement on small and medium sizes business in Voi town. The study has three objectives: To ascertain the effect of skills on implementation of E-procurement in SMEs; to establish the effect of Supplier compatibility on implementation of E-procurement in SMEs and finally determine the effect of cost of systems infrastructure on implementation of E-procurement in SMEs. The study adopted a descriptive approach in trying to establish on the factors influencing implementation of e-procurement on small and medium sizes business in Voi town and it targeted a population of one hundred employees. The study concluded that skills, supplier compatibility and the cost of systems infrastructure influence the implementation of E-procurement in the SMEs in Voi town.
Keywords: E-Procurement, IT infrastructure, Supply Chain
Factors Influencing Adoption of E-Procurement in Kenya’s Public Sector (Published)
E-procurement system contributes significantly to national productivity growth through the removal of non-value added activities in procurement process. However, the adoption has been slow in Kenya and there is still a lack of studies assessing the impact of e-procurement. This study aims to explore the barriers of e-procurement adoption in Kenya and to understand e-procurement success, and why success has not been achieved using desktop research design. Insights that will be obtained from systematic evaluations regarding the barriers of e-procurement systems will help to develop an instrument to measure success; identify barriers to achieving success and establish a framework to promote success of e-procurement in the public sector in Kenya
Keywords: E-Procurement, Kenya, Procurement Process, Productivity, Public Sector