The role of quality in e-procurement performance: An empirical analysis

While the adoption and use of e-procurement has been prevalent in supply chain management, there is very little research examining the critical role of quality in this context. e-Procurement promises to cut operational costs all across the supply chain, but it also raises the expectations of buyers posing a challenge for buyer satisfaction and supply chain performance. Using the theoretical lens of Dynamic Capabilities Theory and Resource-Based View, we postulate that online information and process act as resources that result in logistics fulfillment capabilities. These capabilities in turn lead to satisfaction with e-procurement. We estimate our research model using structural equation modeling with survey data collected from 131 purchasing and procurement managers. We empirically examine these linkages by analyzing data collected from procurement managers. Our results indicate strong support for the relationships between information flow process quality, logistics fulfillment quality processes, and e-procurement satisfaction performance. One of the surprising findings of our study is that fulfilled order timeliness has a significantly greater impact on satisfaction than fulfilled order accuracy. This finding points to the increasingly important role that the dimension of time plays in today's competitive environment.     

Effect of purchase volume flexibility and purchase mix flexibility on e-procurement performance: An analysis of two perspectives

Despite the widespread adoption of e-procurement by firms in recent years, academic research examining the mechanisms through which e-procurement applications lead to performance has been scarce. Anecdotal evidence points to numerous situations where companies have failed to harness the potential of e-procurement. In this paper, we argue that online purchase volume and mix flexibilities facilitated by these applications play a significant role in the ability of firms to benefit from e-procurement. We examine this tenet from both an economic as well as a social perspective. We propose that increased online purchase volume flexibility as well as online purchase mix flexibility can be facilitated by two mechanisms – supplier customization as explained by transaction costs perspective, and information sharing between supply chain partners using a social exchange theoretical perspective. The increased purchase volume and mix flexibility in turn leads to better performance along the dimensions of cost, quality, and delivery. We present and test a nuanced perspective where we argue that (i) the effect of supplier customization on both purchase volume and mix flexibilities will be moderated by the frequency of transactions conducted online, and (ii) the effect of information sharing on both purchase volume and mix flexibilities will be moderated by trust in the supplier. We estimate our research model using survey data collected from 130 purchasing and procurement managers. We find strong support for our proposed research model with results indicating that purchase volume and mix flexibilities play a vital mediating role in impacting e-procurement performance. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.     

欧盟公共与私营电子采购标准化要求异同初探

电子采购的兴起,逐渐革新了传统的采购模式,大大地提高了效率,节约了成本。欧盟是电子采购制度建设较早的地区之一,且渗透到私营和公共采购领域。为了提高公共与私营电子采购之间的兼容性,2005年2月欧洲标准化委员会（CEN）正式发布了《欧盟电子采购标准化要求和差距分析》（CWA15236）。文章将根据《欧盟电子采购标准化要求和差距分析》（cwA15236）,以现有的法律、标准规范和技术为基础,分析欧盟公共与私营电子采购在法律层面、程序层面和技术层面的主要异同点,同时提出了相关建议。     

项目采购成本分析

当前市场竞争日益激烈,如何有效控制生产成本从而实现价格优势显得尤为重要。降低采购成本是企业参与市场竞争的需要,加强采购成本的控制与管理是降低采购成本的主要手段。企业应建立全方位成本观念,完善采购制度,采取公开招标、电子采购等方式增加采购透明度,建立供应商信息库,确保采购主渠道的畅通,减少采购中间环节,选择最优采购方案,降低采购成本。     

Evidence of the impacts of public e-procurement: The Portuguese experience

This paper analyses public e-procurement implementation and emphasizes its main difficulties and impacts in relation to the type of public organizations. The primary impacts and changes in the Portuguese public sector are analyzed within the new legal framework, which adopts mandatory e-procurement for any open, restricted or negotiated procedure. In this sense, two surveys carried out in consecutive years were conducted to assess the implementation difficulties and impact of e-procurement in the Portuguese public sector.The major value of this research is that it presents and discusses, for the first time, evidences about difficulties and impacts on the mandatory adoption of public e-procurement, based on the case of Portugal. The results show that the entities’ administrative level influences the e-procurement implementation, which is influenced by the innovation adoption process.     

Preventing rather than punishing: An early warning model of malfeasance in public procurement

Is it possible to predict malfeasance in public procurement? With the proliferation of e-procurement systems in the public sector, anti-corruption agencies and watchdog organizations have access to valuable sources of information with which to identify transactions that are likely to become troublesome and why. In this article, we discuss the promises and challenges of using machine learning models to predict inefficiency and corruption in public procurement. We illustrate this approach with a dataset with more than two million public procurement contracts in Colombia. We trained machine learning models to predict which of them will result in corruption investigations, a breach of contract, or implementation inefficiencies. We then discuss how our models can help practitioners better understand the drivers of corruption and inefficiency in public procurement. Our approach will be useful to governments interested in exploiting large administrative datasets to improve the provision of public goods, and it highlights some of the tradeoffs and challenges that they might face throughout this process.     

基于包钢集团关于降低采购成本的研究

合理有效的控制采购成本,一直以来备受企业和学术界关注,也是企业在市场竞争中能够脱颖而出的关键。文中基于近年来有关采购成本方面研究的期刊文献,从采购成本的地位作用出发,论述企业降低采购成本的方法和面对问题,并结合自身工作进一步给出一些建议,促进企业降低采购成本,提高经济效益进而实现长远发展。旨在帮助企业提高效益,促进同行业共同发展。     

中国企业六西格玛管理实施模型研究

随着六西格玛管理的迅速推广,不少中国企业通过实施六西格玛取得了显著的效益,当在实施六西格玛管理过程中也存在很多问题。因此,了解六西格玛在中国的实施现状,总结适合中国企业实施六西格玛管理的模式至关重要。文章基于对六西格玛管理关键成功因素的分析,构建了适合中国企业的六西格玛管理实施模型。为中国企业通过实施六西格玛管理建立一套持续改进的管理模式奠定了基础。     

A企业的供应商分类策略研究

在整个物资采购网络中，为了增强对供应商管理和控制的有效性，企业应将供应商划分为不同类型的群体。然后对不同类型的物资供应商采取不同的供应商管理模式．以节省管理成本，提高采购柔性，适应市场的变化。从企业供应商分类的现状及存在的问题着手．以物品本身的重要性和其供应市场复杂程度为依据，重新建立采购物品分类模型，最后通过企业实例进行了验证分析。     

基于供应链的准时化采购方式在制造企业中的应用研究

文中针对我国制造型企业采购管理现状,对传统采购模式进行分析,发现其中的问题所在,并基于供应链管理环境,将流行的准时化采购模式引入企业物流系统中,分析其优点及与传统采购模式的区别。通过上海通用汽车有限公司的案例说明着重探讨制造企业如何采用准时化采购方式,以解决现存问题,达到降低成本、提高效率的目的。     

Innovation and public procurement: Terminology,concepts, and applications

The growing awareness of public procurement as an innovation policy tool has recently sparked the interest of both policy makers and researchers. While an increasing number of studies is being published every year, an overview of the field is missing. Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers are often using ambiguous wording and have not yet reached consensus on the terminology and concepts involved. This state of affairs leads to research fragmentation and lack of knowledge convergence. For the purpose of contributing to knowledge synthesis and consolidation, this article provides a structured review of the literature on innovation in public procurement. From categorizing publications based on innovation drivers, concepts, and research approaches, the emerging structure of the field is described and synthesized into a framework of innovation in public procurement. The proposed framework differentiates between literature streams on (1) innovations in the public procurement process, (2) innovation of public services by means of procurement, and (3) the use of public procurement as a tool for demand-side innovation policy-making. For each of these streams of literature, different focus areas as well as research gaps and opportunities for future research are identified. Based on analysis of existing research, the proposed framework provides an overview of state-of-the-art knowledge, a unified terminology, and a holistic understanding of innovation in public procurement. The framework is both a point of departure for future research and a source of knowledge for practitioners.     

E-procurement adoption by European firms: A quantitative analysis

We explore country differences in adoption of electronic procurement. Data are used from the EU-initiated e-Business W@tch survey 2003. Analyses are conducted on 3475 organizations from seven different European countries that were stratified according to nine different sectors and three size categories. It appears that there indeed are country differences with respect to e-procurement adoption, and that firms from countries with a low uncertainty avoidance such as Germany and the UK are the early adopters of e-procurement, while countries that are less reluctant to change such as Spain and France have lower adoption rates.     

基于供应链的研发型企业采购成本控制研究

文章分析了传统采购模式下研发型企业采购成本控制存在的问题,阐述了供应链关系下采购的重要作用,并在此基础上,研究了基于供应链的采购成本控制方法。     

Capturing the value creation in public procurement: A practice-based view

Public procurement has struggled to fulfill its mission to create public value due to a narrow interpretation of value emphasizing the costs of procured goods and services. A holistic view of multidimensional value creation in the context of public procurement has received limited research attention despite a significant body of research on the potential benefits associated with public procurement. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by analyzing the value components and means of value creation developed through public procurement activities. We conduct a systematic literature review and content analysis of 171 research articles to determine the constituents of the value of public procurement and the practices needed to achieve them. Using the theoretical lens of the practice-based view, we propose a conceptual framework that holistically integrates different components of the value of public procurement for the public buyer, supplier, and user, along with the practices needed to achieve them. The study contributes to the literature by offering a multidimensional conceptual framework, a structured review of value components and associated practices, and the application of the practice-based view as the theoretical lens, all of which have implications for practice and theory.     

You'll never walk alone: Why we need a supply chain practice view on digital procurement

This paper conceptualizes digital procurement readiness as a dyadic construct and introduces the supply chain practice view (SCPV) as a theoretical lens that can help guide future research on digital procurement. We build on a literature review and on dyadic, explanatory case studies to provide a nuanced understanding of how the digital readiness of supply chain partners—on both sides of the dyad—needs to co-evolve for the implementation of digital procurement practices. Specifically, we outline how the SCPV can serve as both a holistic and a supply chain-specific framework for future research on the following: 1) the antecedents that help explain why supply chain partners adopt inter-organizational digital procurement practices, and 2) the relational performance outcomes derived from their use. For managers, this study implies the need to explicitly consider interactions with and influences of supply chain partners in their quest to rapidly and effectively digitalize procurement.     

Pre-defined and optional staging for the deployment of enterprise systems: a case study and a framework

The effective deployment of enterprise systems has been a major challenge for many organisations. Customising the new system, changing business processes, and integrating multiple information sources are all difficult tasks. As such, they are typically done in carefully planned stages in a process known as phased implementation. Using ideas from Option Theory, this article critiques aspects of phased implementation. One customer relationship management (CRM) project and its phased implementation are described in detail and ten other enterprise system deployments are summarised as a basis for the observation that almost all deployment stages are pre-defined operational steps rather than decision points. However, Option Theory suggests that optional stages, to be used only when risk materialises, should be integral parts of project plans. Although such optional stages are often more valuable than pre-defined stages, the evidence presented in this article shows that they are only rarely utilised. Therefore, a simple framework is presented; it first identifies risks related to the deployment of enterprise systems, then identifies optional stages that can mitigate these risks, and finally compares the costs and benefits of both pre-defined and optional stages.     

基于BSC装备采办绩效评价体系的建立

在阐述平衡记分卡基本思想的基础上,探讨了将平衡记分卡引入到装备采办绩效评价的理论依据和实践依据,并根据装备采办体系的特殊性以及自身特点对评价指标进行调整,从采办成本、采办业绩、内部运营机制、供应商、采办发展创新五个方面进行分析并构建评价体系框架。     

采购中成本的降低

企业采购,是企业的成本大户,存在很大的利润空间,控制采购环节中的各种费用、降低企业的成本,可以给企业带来很高的经济效益。本文通过研究采购成本控制的意义,得出采购成本的降低的一些方法,以改进企业采购中成本过高的问题。     

企业采购与招标电子商务平台的业务流程研究

通过对企业采购与招标电子商务平台的业务流程的梳理,对企业建立良好的电子商务平台提供了决策依据与实现的可能。从而最终实现简化企业采购部门的工作内容、提高办公效率、规范采购管理、降低采购成本。     

What is the value of an IT e-procurement system?

E-procurement is gaining in popularity in business practice and its benefits encourage its adoption for a variety of areas, including IT (Information Technology) purchases. The problem with assessing the value associated with e-procurement has been addressed by researchers and practitioners, but a clear methodology to determine the benefits related to e-procurement adoption is still missing, especially for IT. This paper defines e-procurement and identifies the six most significant drivers for e-procurement adoption, which are the pillars of the proposed value assessment methodology. The authors have also applied the developed methodology to real cases in order to verify its validity and robustness. Finally, although the developed model takes into account the peculiarities of IT purchases, it also raises more research opportunities for other purchasing categories.