The Diffusion and Context of e-Commerce and e-Procurement: Some Corporate Findings

More than 80% of Fortune 1000 has adopted e-procurement and e-Sourcing technologies according to Abeerdeen Group. Focus has been on integration and automation of the extended sourcing lifecycle. The technology associated with Internet has increased the possibilities to do e-business, e-commerce, and e-procurement. [1] This paper describes and discusses the evolution and created benefits at Ericsson, the Swedish telecom company. A proposed new approach to discuss the procurement context, based on what to buy and how to do it, is also presented together with Swedish government cases. Tools in the presented cases have had a great effect on e-business and e-procurement processes and a lot of benefits have been created.