UPPLY chain management (SCM) is a concept that has originated in the manufacturing industry to control logistics. It represents a management process by which enterprises administer and control the worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. In construction, procurement...

Sustainability has become a central corporate concern as well as a key factor of success in terms of both image and productivity. In turn, the procurement function is crucial to the definition and implementation of a sustainability policy. It drives a company’s sourcing activities and connects its other functions (i.e. internal customers) to external suppliers and providers. IS, which have come...

This article presents a case study of how usability was dealt with in a procurement process of a content management system. The results indicate that the procurers found it difficult to define usability requirements, probably because they lacked tools and experience to do so. Difficulties also arose because the tools that they used were based on idealized models of how users worked. It is argue...

The information-level integration of suppliers in manufacturing processes becomes a critical requirement in mass customization cycles, where the increasing wealth of product variants may force the production of units of size one. As a consequence, transactional procurement activities should be carried out with the help of flexible automated support tools, in order to adjust production costs, qu...

The current study provides a cross discipline comparison of drivers and barriers to construction e-procurement encompassing the views of quantity surveyors, public sector clients, architects and engineers establishing the level of uptake by different disciplines. A telephone survey of 775 organisations mapped the current practice of e-procurement in construction within the United Kingdom. This ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of semantics and features functioning textual bond "bolee togo" [moreover]. aim work was identify specifics this bond, taking into account its semantic in texts various functional styles genres. Moreover, following research methods have been applied comprehend bond: traditional descriptive method, including observation, generalization systematization lingu...

Zusammenfassung: Elektronische Beschaffungssysteme oder E-Procurement-Systeme bergen eine Vielzahl von potenziellen Einsparungsmöglichkeiten durch automatisierte Prozesse. Notwendig hierzu ist eine Integration der elektronischen Beschaffung in OLTPund ERP-Systeme sowie die Integration in die Prozesse der beteiligten Lieferanten. Nach einer kurzen Definition und Abgrenzung verwandter Terminologi...

This paper analyzes the relationship between sustainability views, drivers and barriers and concrete procurement practices for sustainability in the German food service industry (FSI), building on earlier work of Rankin et al. (2011) on this topic. Further innovation lies in the explicit regard to product-specific differences in the importance and level of implementation of sustainable sourcing...

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i) corruption reduces FDI inflows and attracts lower quality investment in terms of governance standards; ii) in ...