Adoptive Deficiencies and E-Procurement Lag among Hospitals in Ghana: A Logistic Regression Analysis

The inability of public hospitals in Ghana to integrate electronic information in their supply chain systems has been a great disadvantage and affecting value for money and sustainability. Even though these government hospitals have technological equipments in operations that are closely related with e-Procurement tools, they practice the paper-based transaction system of procurement due to inadequate knowledge on e-Procurement procedures. Our study investigates the other critical barriers beside technology that are not well in place hence the lag in e-procurement adoption in these hospitals. We sampled the views of supply chain management officers in selected hospitals in Ghana and applied a fitted logistic regression model as the main analytical tool to explore the effect of constraining factors on e-procurement adoption in Ghanaian hospitals. We observed a non-negligible effect of weak financial deployment, employee motivation, organizational structure, organisational culture, related and support systems or system interoperability, management support, supplier compatibility, regulatory framework such as legal framework, operational standards and benchmarks as supplementary constraints to e-procurement adoption in the hospitals