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Procurement · Definition

E-Procurement

Running the purchasing process electronically end to end.

E-procurement replaces paper and email with a system of record for requisitions, approvals, orders, receipts and invoices. Suppliers interact through a portal rather than a mailbox.

The benefit is less about speed than about evidence: every request, approval and change is captured with a timestamp and an owner, which is what makes spend controllable and auditable.

Also called

  • digital procurement

See it in AWRA OpsHub

Procurement Suite

Related terms

Procure-to-Pay

P2P

The end-to-end process from requisition to supplier payment.

Punchout Catalogue

Shopping a supplier’s live catalogue from inside your own purchasing system.

Vendor Portal

A secure area where suppliers see and act on their own transactions.

Audit Trail

A tamper-evident record of who did what, when, and to which record.

More in Procurement

Approval Workflow Approved Vendor List (AVL) Bid Evaluation Blanket Purchase Order Category Management Conflict of Interest (CoI) Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Cost Avoidance

E-Procurement is not just a definition here

Procurement runs on this vocabulary every day in AWRA OpsHub — 40 of our 259 glossary terms describe things the platform actually does.

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