ID: 2410
Authors:
Juarez Paulo Tridapalli, Elton Fernandes, Waltair Vieira Machado.
Source:
Revista de Administração Pública, v. 45, n. 2, p. 401-433, March-April, 2011. 33 page(s).
Keyword:
electronic government , for the public sector , information technology , supply chain management
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
All governments are being subdued to budgetary restrictions, to make more with lessand the society is demanding for more transparency, justice and equity in the publiccontracts. Technology is more and more present, offering a wider range of productswith environmental concern. All governmental effort for the quality improvementof current expenditures with assets and services used in the public sector must gothrough the modernization of the supply chain management. In most cases this effortis reduced to part of the process, such as the procurement systems. It is shown thatthere is a huge modernization potential in other stages of the logistic process, asthe inventory management, standardizing engineering and specification of assetsand services, contracts and suppliers’ management. This is relevant for the publicadministration, because the expenditures with purchase of assets and services mayrepresent up to 36% of the budget of government unities. This way, it is up to thepublic power to develop techniques or to adapt them from the private initiative andincorporate them to the public administration for the increasing of efficiency andcapacity of those expenditures. The research in Brazil in this public administration area are deficient and require efforts from researchers to solve doubts still persistent,such as the reasons for the low use of the electronic commerce, the difficulties forthe suppliers to participate more intensively in the process and the techniques ofsupply chain management adapted to the public sector. Our research has identifiedthat the public expenditures management in Brazil must be treated in all stagesof assets and services supply chain, as the intensive use of electronic commerce,that is, since the survey for the needs to the final use, with integrated systems. Thegreat majority of government unities in Brazil is not using appropriate techniquesfor planning the material and services needs aligned with strategic plan, suppliersdevelopment, virtual process, inventory management, relevant expenditures managementand other important one — inside an integrative view, as much internal asexternal, to minimize operational costs of transactions —, the reach of expendituresreduction goals, improvement of investment capacity and maximization of essentialservices to the population.
