Co-procurement: making the most of collaborative procurement

Collaborative features in french public e-procurement

Public e-procurement is the use of electronic means for publishing, processing, exchanging and storing all the information related to institutional purchases and provisioning in public organizations. It requires complex technological tools which must comply with legal and organizational constraints. In this paper, we analyse cooperative aspects in public purchase processes through the detailed ...

Hyperimmunes Plasma Procurement and Products

Exploring industry dynamics in e-procurement: sense making by collaborative investigation

The case study method supported by interviews is used widely by IS researchers. In ‘messy’ problems, such as the adoption of e-procurement across manufacturing supply chains, a more collaborative approach is needed to explore and make sense of the problem domain. This paper proposes the use of qualitative politicised influence diagrams QPID – to enable the investigator to structure the process ...

Collaborative Procurement: A Relational View of BuyerBuyer Relationships

Collaborative procurement is increasingly on the policy agenda in many countries, yet problems with collaboration occur. Th is article adopts a relational theory perspective to explore the enablers of and barriers to collaboration in purchasing, helping identify success factors. Th e authors adopted a mixed qualitative/quantitative methodology and interviewed 51 senior staff ers in the United K...

Conceptual Design of Service Procurement for Collaborative Service Networks

In this paper we propose a conceptual model for e-procurement solutions for industrial services. Product-related services are of particular interest of companies and should be supported through an appropriate network strategy. However, in the service field, e-business solutions and current standards are still not or only partially considering specifications and related variables of services. We...