A Survey of Electronic Purchasing Practice in Ireland: a Perspective for the Irish Construction Industry

Alan V. Hore; Roger West

doi:10.21427/tv0k-gq32

A Survey of Electronic Purchasing Practice in Ireland: a Perspective for the Irish Construction Industry

Alan V. Hore
, Roger West

Technological University Dublin

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Abstract

There are many millions of trading documents (such as purchase orders, delivery notes and invoices) currently exchanged on paper in business to business (B2B) transactions, each having to be re-keyed as they pass between different locations and computer applications. Existing Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, Bar-Coding, Radio Frequency Tagging, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic catalogs and Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ERP) have facilitated electronic commerce (EC) functionality within many business sectors. However, the adoption of such technologies in the Irish construction industry has been very slow with only limited evidence of their application. The results of a structured online questionnaire is reported, which was conducted among the top 75 companies in Ireland. The results indicate little EC activity within the Irish Construction Industry supply chain and significant opportunities to introduce the most routine EC applications to support their B2B purchasing transactions.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/tv0k-gq32
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	2nd International Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI) Research Symposium and International Built and Human Research Week - Manchester, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Jan 2005 → …

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Conference	2nd International Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI) Research Symposium and International Built and Human Research Week
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Manchester
Period	1/01/05 → …

Keywords

trading documents
purchase orders
delivery notes
invoices
business to business
B2B
Information Communications Technologies
ICTs
Internet
Bar-Coding
Radio Frequency Tagging
Electronic Data Interchange
EDI
Electronic catalogs
Enterprise Resource Planning Software
ERP
electronic commerce
EC
Irish construction industry
structured online questionnaire
EC activity
supply chain
B2B purchasing transactions

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2005. Paper presented at 2nd International Salford Centre for Research and Innovation (SCRI) Research Symposium and International Built and Human Research Week, Manchester, United Kingdom.

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