Observing Value for Money as Procurement Professional local in governments of
Uganda incase point (By Ayikobua Geoffrey)
As a procurement professional, you have a lot of
decision-making authority and influence over how quite a
bit of money is spent. While most business dealings
proceed legally and with integrity, it is not uncommon
for suppliers to approach or cross an ethical line when
trying to win your business. Something which is common in local Government of
Uganda, Truly strategic supplier management program will be based on supplier
performance metrics that relate to the
key performance indicators of the overall organization.
But it is not uncommon for an organization's information
systems and processes to lack the ability to make those
metrics readily available. If such is the case, is it impossible to use those
metrics?
Unfortunately, some unsuspecting and/or inexperienced in the Names of
‘procurement professionals’ do not recognize situations
that are inappropriate and, as a result, end up making or
contributing to decisions that are questionable at best,
unethical or even illegal at worst. When procurement
professionals step outside of these not-so-obvious
ethical boundaries, bad things can happen including the
loss of one's integrity, the loss of one's job, or even
the loss of one's freedom (i.e., being put in jail)like, the saga of “CHOGM
BENZ”
For instances Metrics such as customer satisfaction, on-time delivery, and even
quality could be suggested to generate or create more transparent proceedings
of such articles by having
internal people answer questionnaires on a regular basis,"
accordingly. However, relying on internal
stakeholders as your source for supplier management
metrics has its challenges one challenge is getting enough participation. Often
characterized by ‘kitu Kidogo’ the kick backs for influencing tender board
decisions of awarding contracts to such persons who don’t parse meet the
required standards of solicitation documents. Having
stakeholders’ rate suppliers "takes their time, so it has
to be made very easy." This often makes ‘the professionals in making’ to forget
the feed back of bidding process/proceedings. "People have to understand why
it's important to participate and give their feedback on supplier performance."…
To be continued… On westnilenet@kym.net
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