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Interaction with Suppliers: e-Procurement

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Strategies for e-Business

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Firstly, this chapter introduced the definition of e-procurement and discussed the advantages and drawbacks of e-procurement. Secondly, the chapter analyzed critical success factors of adopting e-procurement. Thirdly, the chapter first introduced a procurement process and then illustrated a general process of e-procurement and ultimately pointed out technologies and systems involved in e-procurement process.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Chaffey et al. (2006).

  2. 2.

    Ibid., p. 501

  3. 3.

    See Chaffey (2006).

  4. 4.

    This section is adapted from: A. Flynn, “Converting to eProcurement: 17 Aspects of Successful Adoption,” Sourcedogg, 2013.

  5. 5.

    The generic procurement process is adopted from: Australian Government Department of Finance, “Procurement process considerations,” 31 March 2019. Available at: 7 https://www.finance.gov.au/procurement/procurement-policy-and-guidance/buying/procurement-practice/process-considerations/tips.html.

  6. 6.

    See Chaffey (2011).

  7. 7.

    This subsection is adapted from: A. Bartolini, “CPO rising 2017: the procurement event of the year,” SAP Ariba, April 2017.

References

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Further Reading

  • An overview on how the Internet changed supply chain management is provided in M. E. Johnson and S. Whang, ‘E-business and supply chain management: An overview and framework’, Production and Operations Management, 2002, 11(4), 413–423.

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  • Kaplan, S. & Sawhney, M. developed the concept of e-hubs in ‘e-Hubs: The new B2B marketplaces’, Harvard Business Review, 2000, May–June, pp. 97–103.

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  • Hoffman, W., Keedy, J., & Roberts, K. differentiate e-marketplaces according to their degree of openness in ‘The unexpected return of B2B’, McKinsey Quarterly, 2002, No. 3, pp. 97–106.

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  • For an interesting discussion on how the adoption of e-procurement systems and strategies can contribute to a company’s value creation and business competitiveness, see W. D. Presutti Jr., ‘Supply management and e-procurement: Creating value added in the supply chain’, Industrial Marketing Management, 2003, 32(3), 219–226.

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  • To understand e-procurement practices in a business-to-business context as well as the success factors and challenges of e-procurement, see R. Angeles, R. and R. Nath, ‘Business-to-business e-procurement: Success factors and challenges to implementation’, Supply Chain Management, 2007, 12(2), 104–115.

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  • Bartolini, A. (2017). CPO rising 2017: The procurement event of the year. April: SAP Ariba.

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Weblinks

  • spendmatters.com is the website of an industry magazine for sourcing and procurement professionals.

  • www.scmr.com is the website of another magazine, ‘Supply Chain Management Review’, that provides numerous articles and other resources on managing supplier relationships in e-business.

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  1. IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Tawfik Jelassi

  2. Department of Business Administration 1, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Francisco J. Martínez-López

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Jelassi, T., Martínez-López, F.J. (2020). Interaction with Suppliers: e-Procurement. In: Strategies for e-Business. Classroom Companion: Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48950-2_10

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