How can B2B e-marketplaces (EM) enhance the quality of supply chain?

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a source of competitive advantage in organizations especially for those organizations that supply chain (SC) is the core of their business or is tightly coupled with their core business. Traditionally organizations use re-engineering practices and organizational enhancement programs in order to increase their competitive advantage through optimizing their supply chain management. With advancement of technologies organizations begun to fabricate processes and employ more advanced communication technologies and technological tools -such as E-Marketplaces (EM) and RFID tags- with the goal of increasing the quality of their SC. The objective of this paper is to shed light on the concept of quality in SC, and application of B2B EMs for enhancing the quality of their supply chain. Moreover the adoption process and critical factors affecting the success of EM adoption in SC is explored in this study

Application of B2B electronic-marketplaces in the integration of supply chain

This paper explores the application of business-to-business (B2B) Electronic Marketplaces (EM) in supply chain (CS) integration. The paper starts with explaining the developments in supply chain management studies, and identifies the SC integration era as one of the main streams of supply chain management studies. The second part of the paper describes the evolution of SC integration and introduces B2B EMs as one of the tools for integration inter-organizational supply chains. In part three different types of EMs and their applicability to supply chain integration is disused. Finally part four describes the factors affecting the readiness of Sc for integration through B2B EM, explains the success factors of adopting B2B EM and proposes a transition model for adopting B2B EMs for inter-organizational SC integration

Identification in electronic networks: Characteristics of e-identifiers

Identification in electronic networks (e-Identification) has been a source of new risks in e-commerce and e-govemment [3, 22]. Identity theft is the fastest growing white-collar crime in many countries, specifically in developed countries. The identity theft (IDT) report presented by Competition Bureau Canada indicates that the cost of IDT to the economy of Canada has increased by 83% in the period of 2002-2003. Also, the average loss of victims has increased from 1439Cnd$in 2002, to 1614Cnd$ in 2003. This increase can also be observed in other developed countries at the same level. This rapid increase of identity theft indicates that the development of optimal identification systems in organizations is far behind the development of electronic networks. One of the central issues in IDT is the identification process. Understanding the identification processes in electronic systems, its concepts, and tools are the fundamentals of designing, implementing and operating an efficient and effective identification system. However, there have been very few studies in this area, and there is a gap in literature specifically on identification tools, their characteristics, their efficiency and their effectiveness, and their usability. This paper presents a comp

Measurement of business process orientation in transitional organizations: An empirical study

With regards to the benefits associated with the business process orientation, only a small body of research in this field has specifically addressed the issue of the measurement of process-orientation in organizations. To help fill this gap, the primary focus of this study is to explore the measurement of business process orientation in transitional organizations by providing a framework for measuring process orientation, from managerial perspective, and applying this measurement in an empirical study. Based on the transition framework of this study the transition process from functional organizational structure to a process-oriented organizational structure starts with the implementation of the ERP system by the organization. The results of the study show the positive relationship that exists between the level of process-orientation in the organization and the success of ERP systems implementation and utilization