Putting the enterprise into the enterprise system
Harvard Business Review
E-business: roadmap for success
E-business: roadmap for success
Logistics and Fulfillment for E-Business
Logistics and Fulfillment for E-Business
Designing And Managing The Supply Chain
Designing And Managing The Supply Chain
A suppliers' perspective of e-procurement integration in automobile industry
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on SYSTEMS
Analyses of inter-firm governance and information technology
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Enhancing employee tendencies to share knowledge-Case studies of nine companies in Taiwan
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and in particular the Internet, have played a fundamental role in helping companies reach the goals of ''supply chain integration''. The Internet can change the role and type of relationships between the various players, creating new value networks and developing new business models. This work studies the impact of the Internet on company business, in particular on procurement and fulfilment processes. The analysis is carried out by considering and comparing four case studies regarding four large Italian companies. An evolutionary model for e-business strategy is proposed. This model shows how ICT can evolve from being merely a means of communication to being an instrument which coordinates company processes through five stages: traditional communication tools, internal integration, Web-based communication tools, XML Web-based platform, and integrated enterprise. Even if the companies studied are geared towards different markets, the strategies they have used are quite similar. In particular, they have adopted the XML Web-based platforms model.