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Supplier relationship management goes digital: first empirical insights

  • In an increasingly competitive environment, suppliers are now seen as an important source of innovation. Long term partnerships enable companies to access the knowledge of suppliers to optimize their business. "Procurement 4.0" is one of the concepts that come to the fore when talking about digitalization of business processes. The major aim of this research is to discuss a conceptual model of "Procurement 4.0" and its potential to rethink the management of supplier relationships, which will be one of the main future tasks of procurement. The paper is based on a factual-analytical research approach that serves to continuously specify and supplement the elements of the frame of reference: Two challenging concepts, "Procurement 4.0" and Supplier Relationship Management, are merged to contribute to the fact that purchasing is indispensable as an "interface" within a global supply chain to reap the benefits of digitization. The factors that prove to be obstacles to digital supplier relationship management along the digital supplier journey - e.g. lack of guidelines, approaches or tools and a lack of understanding of the importance of long-term relationships - are reflected within the identified technologies of digital transformation. A comprehensive analysis of the given situation within digital supplier relationship management in Germany is provided. The most important digital supplier touchpoints are discussed in order to develop a traditional supplier relationship towards a digital relationship management. Thus, this paper succeeds in illustrating how the innovative concept of a supplier journey can be implemented in practice to counteract the future, entrepreneurial challenges.

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Author of HS ReutlingenSteinbiß, Kristina
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-26136
DOI:https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2020.080303
ISSN:2332-3310
eISSN:2332-3329
Erschienen in:Universal journal of industrial and business management
Publisher:Horizon Research Publishing
Place of publication:San Jose, CA
Document Type:Journal article
Language:English
Publication year:2020
Tag:Procurement 4.0; digital purchasing; digitalization; maturity models in procurement; strategic procurement; supplier journey; supplier relationship management
Volume:8
Issue:3
Page Number:11
First Page:63
Last Page:73
DDC classes:330 Wirtschaft
Open access?:Ja
Licence (German):License Logo  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International