| dc.description.abstract | The world has continued to experience information, communication and technology growth, increased
knowledge by consumers about foreign goods and services, improved international relations, cooperations
and agreements amongst countries, convergence of socio-cultural orientation leading to
tremendous growth of international business. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the
relationship between e-procurement and organizational performance on NGOs in Nairobi, Kenya. The
study had three research objectives: To determine the extent of E-procurement implementation among
NGOs in Nairobi, Kenya and to establish the relationship between E-procurement implementation and
the performance of NGOs in Nairobi, Kenya. This study employed descriptive research design that
gained an in-depth understanding on the relationship between e- procurement and performance of
NGOs in Kenya. The target populations of this study are the NGOs in Nairobi Kenya. Data was collected
mainly by use of a questionnaire. The researcher mainly used descriptive statistics to analyze data. This
included frequency distribution tables, mean and standard deviation. The use of charts might also be
considered. SPSS and Microsoft excel software was used to generate outputs. The study concluded that
accountability has been encouraged; there is a competitive bidding and sourcing and that there was
improved flow of information. On the other hand, lack of management support; late supplier
involvement; lack of proper staff training; failure to comply with best practices and poor information
quality were the hindrances to the implementation of e-procurement. Further, the study concluded that
online advertisement of tenders has improved effectiveness; online short listing of tenders has ensured
transparency; online requisition by organization staff has improve accountability and online
advertisement of tenders has ensured the NGO gets competitive suppliers. Although e-procurement
seems to have a lot positive of effects on organizations, it must be implemented with caution to ensure
that it is implemented at the right time and under the right conditions. The stakeholders should also stay
attune to any new e-procurement related legislation, or self-regulation mechanisms such as Code of
Conducts and Interchange Agreement. In addition, they should educate their employees, modify existing
policies, formulate new strategies, adopt updated security systems and software‟s, and incorporate
security information management in their organizations. From the findings the significance value is .002
which is less that 0.05 thus the model is statistically significance in predicting how online advertisement
of tenders, online quotations and mode of ordering is via online affects organizational performance. The
F critical at 5% level of significance was 3.23. Since F calculated is greater than the F critical (value =
2.21), this shows that the overall model was significant. The findings of this study were only directly
applicable to the NGOs in Nairobi. The time duration was not adequate to conduct a survey of all staff
and NGOs in Nairobi therefore the study chose to identify 2 respondents per NGO. It only focused on eprocurement
implementation and supply chain integration among NGOs in Nairobi. This same study
should be extended to other industries and firms so that similarities and differences may be drawn. It
will also be advisable to replicate this same study after some years have elapsed in order to establish the
changes that have taken place since supply chain integration highly depends on technology which is
subject to change. | en_US |
