Collaborative E-Procurement: Information, Systems Required, Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Key Success Factors

1. Introduction

This report begins with an introduction of collaborative supply chain systems and narrows down to procurement process to further discuss the information and systems required in the collaborative e-procurement. A cost-benefit analysis is done based on a published hypothetical company case study. On top of that, wide research is done before the report is able to identify the key success factors in the collaborative e-procurement.

2. Findings

2.1 Collaborative Supply Chain

Supply chain (SC) collaboration is defined as any kind of joint, coordinated effort between two parties to achieve a common goal (McLauren, 2002). This incorporated intracompany and intercompany collaboration spans all core functions of manufacturing organizations (Rayport and Jaworski, 2002, p. 400). SC encompasses numerous processes and activities along the entire supply chain such as product design, procurement, order fulfilment, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. To summari...