Ericsson is the largest supplier of mobile systems in the world. Ericsson management decided to take prompt, pre-emptive action ahead of the anticipated downturn, and therefore began to explore practical ways to reduce the cost base quickly and effectively, yet without detriment to ongoing business operations. Capgemini won the contract...
The North American arm of the Japanese consumer electronics and multimedia giant used a custom developed E-Procurement solution to enable vendors view the outstanding orders and receipts. The goal was to build extensions on Oracle Applications to interface with SPIRITS and develop a flexible solution, which could be easily extended...
Typical procurement processes within an organization include one or more purchasing/selling departments, all of which rely on paper-based systems. Purchase orders POs, requests for quotes RFQs, invoices and payments are transmitted via phone, mail, fax and e-mail. E-Procurement, on the other hand, links procurement organizations through a centralized, Web-based system....
This paper develops a research framework for addressing issues perceived as critical to understanding the e-procurement adoption process. Possible explanations relating to the adoption process by business are considered, accounting for the drivers and potential impediments. The discussion provides the basis for the development of a predictive model of the...
This paper presents the findings of a replication study seeking to validate and improve an existing e-procurement quality scale. Data collected from users of an e-procurement system at a Dutch university are compared with original data from a number of UK organisations. Factor analysis is carried out in order to...
Since the Internet arrived on the scene as a supply management tool in the mid- 1990s, enterprises have tried to gain the benefits e-procurement can deliver: cost reductions, process streamlining, improved contract compliance, increased spend under management, and more. However, many challenges stood in the way, and only in last...
Since e-procurement solutions hit the market around 2000 and began delivering impressive savings in the purchase of indirect materials like office supplies, companies have sought to expand the use of technology to other areas of corporate spend. A variety of applications, including contract management and supplier management, were introduced and...
This paper shows the first detailed realistic e-business application scenario that uses and exploits capabilities of the SweetRules V2.1 toolset for e-contracting using the SweetDeal approach. SweetRules is a uniquely powerful integrated set of tools for semantic web rules and ontologies. SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business...
Since its inception, wherever eProcurement has failed to deliver its ROI potential, it's usually not because the software doesn't work but because it isn't used enough. With a little analysis, it's easy to see what the underlying problem is-lack of supplier enablement and lack of catalog content. The biggest obstacle...
Notwithstanding the many well-publicized strategic sourcing and e-procurement initiatives, few service and maintenance operations have yet hit on a complete solution to their spending issues. While not without some benefits, the gains from previous efforts did not extend to all purchase categories and some were not sustained over time. Technology...
Cable & Wireless is a global telecommunications provider that is leveraging the functionalities of the mySAP Supplier Relationship Management mySAP SRM application to: Drive e-procurement Enforce compliance Reduce costs The company looked at a number of e-procurement products before choosing mySAP SRM...
This article tries to investigate the dimensions of electronic procurement, its importance, the different models in use and the effects these forms of procurement have on the different companies and their internal structures. The main ideas of this paper are discussed in different chapters, which focus on different e-Procurement models....
Within BAE Systems IPS Indirect Procurement Services is responsible for sourcing and contract management across a range of commodities for the entire UK business, and would be judged on achieving leverage from aggregation as well as how much they could lower the overall cost of procurement. Under the single Solutions...
This paper presents a case study concerning the analysis of the Greek governmental purchasing process carried out from the General Secretariat of Commerce, part of the Ministry of Development. The methodological approaches as well as the tools used are analyzed and the achieved results are presented. The objective of the...
For the restaurant industry the purchase process has traditionally been a labor-intensive, paper and pencil, time consuming, monotonous routine requiring knowledgeable buyers, capable sellers and a detailed set of inventory and audit procedures. Simply stated, restaurants need to control purchasing practices in order to contain costs while improving productivity. An...
This paper signifies that sourcing and procurement aren't merely tactical exercises. They're the lifeblood of your business. By selecting the ideal mix of suppliers based on attributes critical to the business - like price, quality and delivery time - one can reduce spend. And by automating the procurement process, one...
Using the resource-based view and the learning organization as its theoretical framework, the study presented in this paper hypothesized that organizations which possessed not only the technical capabilities for automation but also the ability to learn and share information would be most likely to automate their supply chain processes. An...
While some companies have achieved price reductions through online sourcing, the focus of e-procurement initiatives today is process efficiency. Here's how to decide if, what and how you should buy electronically. Explaining e-procurement's allure isn't difficult. After a rocky start, it's finally delivering the goods. Today, both the technology and...
E-procurement is still in its infancy in many of the agencies involved in the Electronic Commerce for Procurement (EC4P) Project. Over time, it is expected that e-procurement will become fully integrated into the way the public sector goes about its everyday business, as already happens in the Department of Natural...
It has been observed that Federal government spends over $250 billion annually in direct purchases, over $240 billion annually in grants whereas state/local governments spend nearly $400 billion annually in purchases. But, a question which arises is that why Green Purchasing? This is because to develop demand for greener products...
