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Procurement Process and Supply Chain: Analyzing the Impact of New Technologies on Procurement

Procurement Process and Supply Chain: Analyzing the Impact of New Technologies on Procurement
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Author(s): Florea Nicoleta Valentina (Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 36
Source title: Handbook of Research on Industrial Applications for Improved Supply Chain Performance
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz (Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico), George Leal Jamil (Informações em Rede Consultoria e Treinamento Ltda., Brazil), Liliana Avelar-Sosa (Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico)and Antonio Juan Briones Peñalver (Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0202-0.ch010

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Abstract

Organizations are operating in an environment which offers opportunities but also dangers, risks, changes, and challenges. To face these changes, organizations must develop effective strategies based on relationships with stakeholders and profit decisions, and cost-based in order to obtain competitive advantage. To satisfy customers' needs, the organizations seek a position of superiority over its competitors. To deploy its activities and to achieve its objectives, any organization must dispose resources such as material, human, financial, informational, and technological. This chapter treats a very interesting theme, that of procurement, as commercial activity, in the complex activities of organizations. The chapter starts with the literature in the field and presents the evolution of the process, the objectives, the roles, the functions, the activities, and the typology. The author presents the impact the new technologies have on procurement process, using a simulation model, based on mathematical and statistical models and IT programs.

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