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Team Georgia Marketplace

Team Georgia Marketplace provides easy self-service web shopping system and strategic sourcing capabilities, reducing transaction overhead, controlling spending, and driving contract compliance. Benefit from simplified procurement processes, reduced paperwork, and faster communications with suppliers.

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Team Georgia Marketplace

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  1. Team Georgia Marketplace April 2, 2008

  2. Team Georgia Marketplace Core Functionality • Electronic requisitioning • Provides easy self-service web-shopping system via online catalogs of products and services available on statewide contracts, streamlines employee ordering and lowers procurement costs by reducing transaction overhead and controlling maverick spending • Benefits - provides simplified and reduced signature routing, reduced paper requisitions, automates receipts and returns, and simplifies creation of open item and history reports • Strategic Sourcing • Enables buyers to create buying events, permits suppliers to respond to procurement actions, allows purchasing agents to analyze supplier responses and make awards • Benefits - less mailing and waiting time, reduced paperwork, easier bid comparisons, easier maintenance of bidder information and reduced paperwork files and time • Supplier Self Service • Two-way online communication with suppliers enabling self-service access to register and change their bidder information and access to outstanding POs and payment status • Benefits - less paperwork, faster communications, less administrative time, and easily available information for suppliers • Supplier Contract Management • Standardizes contract processes, reduces time-to-contract, and drives contract compliance • Benefits –electronic vs paper contracts that are easily modified and can be monitored for activity, electronic version control, ties to creating of POs and makes finding contracts for specific items easier through enhanced search capabilities

  3. Leadership and Implementation TeamProject Governance Structure Active / Involved Support - Bottom to Top

  4. Team Georgia Marketplace Core Workgroup • Pilot agencies - DHR, GDC, DOAS • 8 top spend agencies – DOT, DHR, DCH, GDC, GTA, DNR, DJJ, DOE • BOR, Large university – Georgia Tech, Small university – Georgia Gwinnett • 1 medium spend agency – DEcD • 1 small spend agency – OPB • Audits

  5. Project Timeline • Overall Project – 22% complete (ends 07/2009) • Phases (end dates) • Planning & Analysis – 60% complete (5/2008) • Design & Development (9/2008) • Testing & Training (1/2009) • Pilot Deployment – DHR, GDC, DOAS (1/2009) • Post Production Support (7/2009) • Statewide Rollout

  6. What’s happening now? • Planning & Analysis Phase • Fit/gap sessions - complete • Gap resolution recommendations (business process changes vs. system changes) – in process • Conversion/interface planning – in process • Technical environment setup - ongoing • Training strategy – complete • Detailed training planning – in process • Change management activities - ongoing • Statewide rollout planning - in process

  7. What’s next? • Design & Development Phase • System configuration begins • Development begins based on gap resolutions • Training materials will be developed • Pilot agency trainers and super users will be trained to assist in system testing • Statewide rollout planning continues

  8. What can agency leadership do to prepare for Team Georgia Marketplace? • Develop an early understanding of the initiative and the change implications for your agency • If you are doing process improvement activities in your purchasing area, engage DOAS/State Purchasing Division (SPD) to understand procurement best practices and the Team Georgia Marketplace future state • Assure your agency’s participation in statewide rollout planning, either on the Core Workgroup or as a reviewing participant

  9. Thank you for the time you have invested in learning more about this project. Your continued support and participation will be what determines its success!

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