ABSTRACT This thesis aims to evaluate the government electronic procurement (e-procurement) systems¡¦ efficiency from the viewpoint of process reengineering. Recently, with the improvement of information technology, internet grows rapidly and flourishing e-commerce, many countries and organizations are paying a lot of attention on this trend. Our government also keeps up with this trend by performing the ¡§E-Government projects¡¨. For example, the e-government¡¦s ¡§E-procurement project ¡§ is one of these, which aims to construct a public, transparency, fair and efficiency procurement environment. In this thesis, we take the Kaohsiung City Government (KCG) as the research object. In order to evaluate the efficiency of the KCG e-procurement and get further understandings, we select three dimensions: time, cost, and labor, and construct the measurement index of e-procurement to analyze 2002 KCG e-procurement performance, and interview with KCG¡¦s labors. According to the results of this study, we can find that government e-procurement system actually brings benefits to our government procurement, such as budget-savings, making procurement decisions more efficient and cheaper, streamlining the entire procurement process from initiating a requisition through awarding, offering buyers an automated procurement process, and giving vendors easy access to more opportunities with less paperwork and reduced cost. Progress is being made in implementing government e-procurement systems; the more reengineering benefits will accrue from the continued expansion of electronic interaction to government and business.

The view of procurement and partnership management with the supplier has been drastically changed for many enterprises, because of the emergence of Internet and Electrical Commerce in the present age. The way of competition between enterprises has been combined into the supply chain. We believe that the implementation of e-procurement will contribute to the increasing of gross profit, benefit and competitiveness undoubtedly. For the big firm like integrated steel mill, it is definitely necessary to simplify the complicated purchasing procedure, so that the tactical issue of e-procurement just can create high value from the procurement. In this thesis, an Innovation Adoption model is proposed to study the e-procurement adoption intention by MRO supplier of Taiwan¡¦s steel industry, and it¡¦s impact on supply chain also has been evaluated. Based on relevant research, the Innovation Diffusion adoption model in the thesis is proposed, which is composed of three major perspectives including environment, organization, and e-procurement technology factor. Besides, related issues in each perspectives are also addressed. Furthermore, two perspectives of partnership and achievement of supplier are also proposed to study the impact of the performance of supply chain. The conclusion of this research indicates that supplier will increase the intension of adopting e-procurement depends on buyer¡¦s resource support as well as buyer¡¦s coercive power. In addition, top management support of supplier is a important factor for the adoption. Besides, market share and transaction frequency in the e-procurement represent buyer being a significant customer will enforce the will of supplier to corporate with buyer to adopt e-procurement. Furthermore, result from regression analysis shows that Trust is major influential factor for the performance of supply chain. However, influence of Trust will be reduced, because of perceived cost being emphasized. The transaction mechanism of e-procurement should provide a fair and transparency transaction platform, so that supplier will corporate to enforce the performance of entire supply chain. According to the research result, some of the advisements for the supplier and buyer were also discussed in thesis

<p>Railways have played an important role for the Swedish economy throughout the 20th into the 21st century since it provides good connections between urban and rural regions and also within them. However, it has been very costly for the state to run this activity and a significant effort to reduce costs and to increase the efficiency for this sector was to introduce procurement auctions where also private firms are invited to lay bids.</p><p>Four auctions have taken place in Jönköpings Län since its introduction in 1990. It has been a turbulent time economically for the winning bidders and the phenomena winner’s curse is evident where the bidder with highest over-estimate wins and therefore faces high costs or low returns.</p><p>This study points at flaws in the auction design as the reason for the economical difficulties for the winning firms. If second-price sealed bid auctions or first-price sealed bid auctions were used instead of a combination of first-price sealed auction and English auction, the winner’s curse phenomena could be reduced or even eliminated.</p>

<p>Problem:The importance of purchasing is often neglected, and the possibilities for continuous improvements in order to reap advantages, such as cost reductions, are often overlooked. Furthermore, the subject of purchasing has not been explored to a large extent in academic research. Therefore, we found the subject to be of great interest and possibly containing opportunities for companies, including Saab Avitronics, to seize.</p><p>Purpose:The purpose of the thesis is to present recommendations after evaluating the purchasing organization and strategies regarding the strategic purchases within Saab Avitronics, Sweden.</p><p>Methodology:To receive a deeper understanding of the purchasing department, we found it necessary to use a qualitative method approach. Through a target-oriented selection we choose to do our empirical case study at Saab Avitronics. The empirical study consists of interviews with the selected respondents as well as written documents.</p><p>Analysis:The analysis is structured according to the theoretical framework; purchasing, purchasing objectives, purchasing organization, purchasing process and purchasing strategies.</p><p>Conclusions:The conclusions are the recommendations we have been able to suggest to Saab Avitronics in order to improve its purchasing function and increase the purchasing power. We find it appropriate for the business unit to rationalize and diversify its supply-base. Another recommendation is to remove the monetary range each purchaser can authorize purchases of.</p>

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-192).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-177).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-178).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-235).

Thesis (M.S. in Contract Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): David V. Lamm, Donald Summers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83). Also available online.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-84).