SUPPLY CHAIN years ago brings together procurement specialists from across the islands with contractors and other stakeholders . At the same time she introduced a procurement award that all the counties , state agencies and CPO agencies can compete for . “ I haven ’ t got a big budget but I can give them training and I can give them an emotional lift up , support them mentally and assist them to elevate themselves .”
The to-do list Allen has set herself a raft of goals .
One of them is to move towards an e-procurement system . Without access to the analytics and metrics she ’ s used to it is difficult to get vision of her spend and to prepare reports for the legislature . Many states , she observes , prefer agile e-procurement solutions , built on a self-funding catalog based model , over large-scale ERP systems . This is the approach to digitization that she favors . “ It would give us incredible power to transform , bring efficiencies and add transparency .” Still , she is very satisfied with the tools her team has created on a very
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