With a manual system, the employee must weigh the relevant selection factors and use his/her knowledge, experience, and judgment to select the supplier. The number of employees you will need. Use of a system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase will reduce the number of employees needed, because a portion of the business process has been to the computer side and less work is done on the human side. With a manual system, more work is performed on the human side, thereby requiring more employees. Your criteria for hiring employees. A system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase will simplify employee hiring criteria. As the procedures followed on the human side have been simplified, lower standards in terms of experience and knowledge of purchasing will be acceptable. With a manual system, employee hiring criteria will be higher and more complex, because employees with experience and a good understanding of supplier selection decisions will be needed. Your management practices. When using a system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase, management oversight will focus primarily on ensuring that the rules followed by the system are correctly established. Once established, management can rely on the system to follow these rules. With a manual system, management will need to ensure that the employees are properly trained, and then continual management oversight will be needed to monitor the employees’ performance and ensure that proper supplier selection decisions are being made. The degree of autonomy for your employees. A system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase substantially reduces employee autonomy. A system that gives the employee the task of selecting the supplier for each purchase makes the employee much more autonomous and adds a considerable amount of interest and challenge to the job. Your flexibility in managing your department. Having a human perform the selection of a supplier for a purchase will keep the management of the department much more flexible. As supplier selection criteria change and evolve, it will be much easier to modify and adapt the behavior of humans in performing this task. Although the computer can follow whatever decision rules it has been given quite easily, it is harder to adapt the rules it follows quickly and easily. In addition, the computer cannot recognize situations in which its rules need to be changed, whereas a human can recognize that
With a manual system, the employee must weigh the relevant selection factors and use his/her knowledge, experience, and judgment to select the supplier. The number of employees you will need. Use of a system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase will reduce the number of employees needed, because a portion of the business process has been to the computer side and less work is done on the human side. With a manual system, more work is performed on the human side, thereby requiring more employees. Your criteria for hiring employees. A system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase will simplify employee hiring criteria. As the procedures followed on the human side have been simplified, lower standards in terms of experience and knowledge of purchasing will be acceptable. With a manual system, employee hiring criteria will be higher and more complex, because employees with experience and a good understanding of supplier selection decisions will be needed. Your management practices. When using a system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase, management oversight will focus primarily on ensuring that the rules followed by the system are correctly established. Once established, management can rely on the system to follow these rules. With a manual system, management will need to ensure that the employees are properly trained, and then continual management oversight will be needed to monitor the employees’ performance and ensure that proper supplier selection decisions are being made. The degree of autonomy for your employees. A system that automatically selects the supplier for each purchase substantially reduces employee autonomy. A system that gives the employee the task of selecting the supplier for each purchase makes the employee much more autonomous and adds a considerable amount of interest and challenge to the job. Your flexibility in managing your department. Having a human perform the selection of a supplier for a purchase will keep the management of the department much more flexible. As supplier selection criteria change and evolve, it will be much easier to modify and adapt the behavior of humans in performing this task. Although the computer can follow whatever decision rules it has been given quite easily, it is harder to adapt the rules it follows quickly and easily. In addition, the computer cannot recognize situations in which its rules need to be changed, whereas a human can recognize that
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