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Record W4250536197 · doi:10.1002/047148296x.tie055

Electronic Procurement

2004· other· en· W4250536197 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Internet Encyclopedia · 2004
Typeother
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicPublic Procurement and Policy
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcurementBusinessPurchasingE-procurementRequest for proposalThe InternetChief procurement officerBusiness processMarketingProcess managementComputer scienceWorld Wide Web

Abstract

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Abstract Over the past decade, electronic commerce (e‐commerce) has started to revolutionize business processes and transactions. The emergence of user‐friendly browsers for the World Wide Web (WWW), and consequently the increased viability and usage of the Internet, has influenced top executives to initiate business‐to‐business (B2B) e‐commerce and supply chain management (SCM) technology solutions. One aspect of e‐business and SCM is electronic procurement (e‐procurement) that currently entails purchasing items and services through the Internet. Substantial cost savings may easily be realized in both the public sector (government entities and public schools) and the private sector (hospitals and nonprofit organizations). E‐procurement continues to evolve quickly as enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors either partner with software procurement specialists or develop new procurement modules for the already existing ERP software. Today's e‐procurement solutions are replacing electronic data interchange (EDI) and closing the gap on division of purchasing. Indirect and direct procurement are slowly becoming a single entity therefore causing operating resource management (ORM) as well as maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) purchasing processes to merge. The evolution of technology has allowed procurement to be a straight‐through process from the time a person browses a catalog until the invoice is paid and all information is stored for future use. This core of this chapter will focus on the strategic aspects of electronic procurement from a management viewpoint. It will concentrate on business‐to‐business purchasing, the e‐procurement decision, and the benefits and challenges of an e‐procurement solution. It touches on some of the technical detail and difficulties in e‐procurement but is not a “deep technical” document on choosing or implementing e‐procurement solutions.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.098
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it