Procurement is one of the important and supporting aspects in any organisation functions. As organisational sectors involve in more technology oriented for their procurement systems, their need to understand e-procurement practice have become more significant. In this paper the possible impacts that e-procurement has on the performance and maturity level of an educational organisation have been investigated. The purpose of this paper is to present, explore and scrutinise the degree of e-procurement usage in the nominated organisation
regarding the performance and adoption within their internal system. This study also aims to generate meanings from the data set collected in order to identify patterns and relationships as well as formulating the research questions to be explored. This research summarising and contextualising an e-procurement system in a non-profit educational organisation based in the United Kingdom.
An inductive case study approach that included multiple sources of data and different collection methods and techniques such as unstructured in-depth interviews, snowball sampling and documentation were adopted and utilised. This research was a single exploratory case study and was not trying to generalise the results to other cases. The general findings and empirical
results represent the maturity level of the system in the selected organisation.
The effects after the adoption on the performance and following that the maturity level have been noticed. Four different categories of improvements were identified as follows: sourcing, transactions, payments and analysis. E-procurement can offer considerable potentials to different organisations if the right adoption system is realised and takes place aligned with both a well
designed strategy plan and operational functions to meet the requirements in order to magnify the performance ability specified to the needs of each individual organisation.