Analysing B2B electronic procurement benefits – Information systems perspective

This paper presents electronic procurement benefits identified in four case companies. The benefits achieved in the case companies were classified according to taxonomies from the Information Systems discipline. Existing taxonomies were combined into a new taxonomy which allows evaluation of the complex e-procurement impact. Traditional financial-based methods failed to capture the nature of e-procurement benefits. In the new taxonomy, eprocurement benefits are classified using scorecard dimensions (strategic, tactical and operational), which allows the identification of areas of e-procurement impact, in addition the benefits characteristic is captured (tangible, intangible, financial and non-financial)

CAR SERVICE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

This paper was made to explore newest trend of information technologies in car service business. Information technology field was researched, trends of people internet shopping in Latvia were investigated, social networks influence on business was researched, and apportionment of the most popular social networks and their contribution were evaluated. IT was concluded that nowadays information technologies has huge impact on business efficiency. E-commerce is a great tool to enlarge income from products sale and information technology can make a real save up to increase business efficiency in long term base

Effect of Web Mining on B2B Marketing

The Indian B2B marketplace in IT sector is going through a transformation. Both existing and new players are experimenting with new Buying solutions through internet as they lack a seamless flow of information among customers, suppliers and their employees. This research paper attempts to analyse the effect of web mining on B2B marketing on the basis of certain parameters of Web Positioning, Product Availability, Layout of a web site and Ease in Accessibility. Further, analysis regarding the relationship between age, qualification, profession and income group has been done. Thus, the main purpose of the research work is to discuss the relation of various variables related to web mining, and the extent of their influence on the success of B2B marketing of a product

Outlining the potential of e-procurement adoption among suppliers in Malaysia

This paper conducts a general discussion literature review, explaining the e-Procurement concept and providing the potential of e-Procurement adoption among suppliers in Malaysia. This paper presents the difference between procurement and purchasing also the difference between traditional procurement and e-Procurement. There are many positive impacts and advantages of e-Procurement to government and suppliers. Suppliers benefit significantly from e-Procurement in terms of new market creation, additional revenue opportunities, competitive advantage, cost savings, customer satisfaction and operational efficiencies.By utilizing the e-Procurement system, the employees are able to increase direct access via supplier’s websites to verify price tips, technological requirements and to visualize product images as well as full specification of product.E-Procurement is able to generate electronic applications, creating and approving purchase requisitions and propose purchase orders online to selected suppliers.This in turn creates forces on Malaysian suppliers to adopt e-Procurement to be competitive in the current industr

Survey to Examine the Drivers of E-Procurement in Public Hospitals in Kisii County, Kenya

Despite the many benefits of e-procurement including reduction in cost and procurement cycle time, more effective budget control, minimization on ordering and administrative errors, enabling originator to concentrate on strategic aspect of purchasing, decreasing the product price, enhanced information management, better payment process among others, it has been a bit difficult to identify them as either strategic, operational or tactical in nature. E procurement is a practice if adopted can lead to efficiency, transparency, reduction in costs among public organizations in Kenya. This underlined the need to carry out the study on the drivers of e-procurement I n Public Hospitals in Kenya. Like other public institutions, Public Hospitals have has not fully adopted e procurement and there for continue to miss the benefits. The purpose of the study was to examine the drivers of e-procurement in public hospitals in Kisii County. Specifically, to examine the operational benefits of e-procurement in public hospitals in Kisii county, to establish the tactical benefits of e-procurement in public hospitals and  to establish strategic benefits of e- procurement in public hospitals in Kisii County. A survey research design was adopted. The study found out that specific strategic, operational and tactical benefits were drivers of e-procurement in public hospitals though in varying degree and a significant relationship existed between strategic, operational and tactical benefits and e-procurement in public hospitals. This study identified efficient purchasing system, reduced costs, increased process efficiency and strategic supplier relationships as the strongest drivers of e-procurement and therefore confirmed the null hypothesis. This study concluded that reduced operational and inventory cost enhances decision making, tactical benefits including a desire to shorten the procurement cycle drives e-procurement and that strategic benefits of e procurement in Kenya’s public hospitals is highly dependent on the decreasing procurement cycle and the ability to enable greater flexibility for supplier selection The study recommended further studies in other variables that are not limited to tactical, operational and strategic benefit drivers. Future research need also to be carried in other public sector entities (corporations) in order to show if the link between e-procurement strategy and procurement performance can be generalized. Keywords: e-procurement, public hospitals, procurement performanc

The Influence of the Facebook Social Network in Electronic Business and Costumers’ Online Security

Social network websites became very popular nowadays. Facebook social network website became an important part of culture that exists within the society. The intention of this study is to identify and analyze the role of social media in the prectices of electronic business and electronic marketing. Especially the use of social network Facebook for practices of electronic marketing of organizations and security of online consumers. There is a tension between the lucrative sides of business in social network websies, where many profits can be gained through marketing in social networks and thus different companies choose a basic level of security for their costumers. There will be different phases to expain the role of social Medias and its influence in development and promotion of online products. Analysis have been made on a literature and a case study in order to create new ideas that the research has to do with about previous inquiries and check if the assumptions are feasible in some of the companies that use facebook social network for e-marketing. The research results showed that using social media increases the ability of the business and the performance of the business, different means of social media and information technology shall be able to be used in almost all different stages of the value and increase of productivity in the enterprice. Online privacy problems that follow leaks from the fact those individuals are careless that an amount of relevant identifyable information were offered to an undetermined number of people. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n2p20

Public e-procurement impacts in small-and medium-enterprises

The European Union (EU) created directives to regulate the moving to full Public e-Procurement (Pe-P) for all public purchases by 2016. Despite the undisputable benefits, member states are lagging behind on this paradigm shift. Also Pe-P's scholarly evaluation and theoretical knowledge behind it are still very limited. This paper makes a contribution to the literature gap related to Pe-P's impacts providing preliminary evidence of its adoption in Portugal. Following a case-based approach involving interviews with managers from the Portuguese construction sector, our study aims to understand Pe-P's implementation benefits and barriers in small-and medium-enterprises (SMEs). Results provide relevant information regarding factors affecting Pe-P's adoption forecasting implications for private firms, platform providers and policy makers in the 2016 full moving to Pe-P's throughout the EU. © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd

DIGITALIZATION OF SUPPLIER COLLABORATION IN SCM

The supply chain is a complex system where supplier collaboration is not fully or partially integrated and optimized that makes it difficult to properly manage it. Taking in consideration previous research on this topic and insights from data collected from 16 suppliers, the analysis of results suggest that the digitalization of supplier collaboration process is a means to achieve such integration and optimization to enhance transparency, visibility and communication throughout the supply chain network. Hence, a company requires a roadmap for businesses to initiate a digitization-based collaboration with their suppliers, critical success factors to assess the digitization progress and KPIs to measure the performance of the digitization for successful digitized supplier collaboration. A case study in conjunction with the survey is used as the research methodology for this thesis. Additionally, 2 simulation models: three-point estimation and Monte Carlo simulation have been presented to measure the reliability of delivery time, resources and workforce needed for a company respectively. This thesis is concluded with suggestions for the company along with possibilities for future research.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format