CRiSPS Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (of the University of Bath School of Management)

This is one of the main recommendations of the CRiSPS report, which the Inspector considers highly pertinent.

The organizations should continue to use their IAPWG forum to tighten collaboration and synchronize their efforts in this area, building on IAPSO's experience, on the findings of the CRiSPS report and of the present JIU report.

The 28th IAPWG meeting in May 2003 discussed the results of an in depth study on the future potential for e procurement in the United Nations, which IAPWG had commissioned from the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS) of the University of Bath School of Management.

Fourthly, the CRiSPS report on this subject and lessons learned to date by IAPSO provide useful insights into what it takes to develop an e procurement platform, especially the need to transform organizational cultures, to realign policies and rules, to change the skill set of procurement staff through systematic retraining, and to accept the inevitability of staff reductions either through natural attrition or otherwise.