POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: E-procurement Options

THIS IS A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION:

Assume you are an e-procurement officer for an office furniture manufacturer of steel office equipment. You have a single factory located in the Midwest with 2,000 employees. You sell about 40 percent of your office furniture to retail-oriented catalog outlets such as Quill in response to specific customer orders, and the remainder of your output is sold to resellers under long-term contracts. You have a choice of purchasing raw steel inputs—mostly cold rolled sheet metal from an exchange and/or from an industry consortium. Which alternative would you choose and why? Prepare, for company management, a thorough a five-to-seven-slide PowerPoint presentation outlining the pros and cons of each option, your chosen alternative and the reasoning for your position.