Strategic e-sourcing and a resource-based view
Strategic e-sourcing and a resource-based view

Summary/Abstract: An essential problem for enterprises is the planning and the organization of the obtaining all types of resources process, defined as sourcing, and in the case of the utilization of web-based technologies, as e-sourcing. The article presents definitions of basic notions, such as: sourcing, e-sourcing, strategic sourcing and strategic e-sourcing, the concept of resource-based view and classification of resources. The analysis also included the development of supply processes realized on-line. The purpose of this paper is to use a resource-based view to answer management’s questions: whether e-sourcing as the process of sources and means of planning supply into all resources of the enterprise is a process of a strategic meaning for the enterprise? How to organize this process and which web-based solutions technologies can be used in its effective realization? The organizational model for strategic e-sourcing was proposed in which for each of the four distinguished stages, the utilization of web-based technology solutions was suggested.

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