New Information Paradigms Collaboration
By implementing control over work processes, and enabling a strategic perspective into the procurement function, the PL-cms makes collaboration significantly easier and more effective.
The PL-cms encourages and promotes effective engagement in collaborative working.
At an authority level:
- Where procurement is centralised, service departments' information, specialist knowledge and experience, can be managed in the PL-cms by procurement professionals
- Where procurement is distributed, service departments can use the PL-cms to harness, manage and aggregate their own information, specialist knowledge and experience
At a regional level:
- The information flows captured by the PL-cms are automatically posted to the pan-London CRS / OEA
- Procurement Heads have access to the strategic perspectives, necessary for focusing collaborative efforts with other authorities
The PL-cms enables the Procurement Head to gain such a strategic perspective so as to be able to begin valuable collaborative work with other authorities through use of the CRS.
If you do not have an accurate understanding of your own authority’s procurement function, then collaboration with other authorities is likely to be a very difficult and painful process.