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What is Direct Goods

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Direct goods and services are components and raw materials, which are used in the manufacturing process of a finished product (Lamming, 1995).
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The Added Value of E-Procurement for Buyer-Supplier Interaction
Wilco van Duinkerken (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Ronald Batenburg (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), and Johan Versendaal (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch003
Abstract
Although there are many possible benefits anecdotal evidence shows that many initiatives and IT-implementations in the procurement domain do not deliver the suspected benefits, see for example Adamson (2001) and Pan, Pan, and Flynn (2004). This paper searches an answer, based on empirical evidence, to the question: “Does the implementation of e-procurement (IT for procurement) positively affect the performance of buyer-supplier interaction?”
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