the application of a span of digital technologies, like electronic data interchange (EDI) and Internet technologies to enable exchanging partners smoothing and expanding the front-end and back-office integration of contracting, service, transportation, and payment of the products and services through processes, decisions, and transactions (Anderson, Juul, Korzen-Bohr, & Pederson, 2003).
Published in Chapter:
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?”