很急的,谢谢各位了.
Online procurement (e-procurement) has been identified as the “… most important element of e-business operational excellence for large corporations.”1 An e-procurement technology is defined as any technology designed to facilitate the acquisition of goods by a commercial or a government organization over the Internet. E-procurement technologies—including e-procurement software, B2B (business-to-business) auctions, B2Bmarket exchanges, and purchasing consortia—are focused on automating workflows, consolidating and leveraging organizational spending power, and identifying new sourcing opportunities through the Internet. Future developments are expected to extend these technology models to create collaborative supply chain management tools.2 Not surprisingly, e-procurement technologies have been credited with providing significant benefits to companies who adventure into them. These advantages include reducing administrative costs, shortening the order fulfillment cycle time, lowering inventory levels and the price paid for goods, and preparing organizations for increased technological collaboration and planning with business partners.3 The relevance of these advantages suggested a rapid migration from traditional to e-based procurement models. Accordingly, just a few years back market analysts predicted that Internet B2B transactions—a subset of e-procurement technologies—would increase from approximately $600 billion in 2000 to over $6.3 trillion by 2004.4
Unfortunately, this tremendous expected growth rate has been revised downwards. Recent market observations indicate that the adoption and integration of e-procurement technologies into the business mainstream is occurring at a much slower than expected pace. One reason is the implicit association that investors have made between e-procurement
2
technologies and the business-to-consumer (B2C) models responsible for the Internet bubble. More often, the slow down has been associated with technology-related issues. A 2001 study by the Conference Board points to problems in the implementation side and concludes that “organizations are …finding (e-procurement) implementation more complex, more expensive, and more time consuming than they originally envisioned” and that consultants have been “widely criticized for overstating the business case for e-procurement.”5 Companies were jumping onto the e-procurement bandwagon without fully understanding the inter-organizational collaboration and network effects underlying these technology models, the investment required to move the right information from suppliers to employees, and the complexities of integrating these technologies with existing Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
bubble110姐姐,好像你的翻译是机译的吧?不是很通顺啊?第一次用百度知道,不知在哪里可以回复啊,只好在这里问了