| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 管理科學系所 === 92 === The development of Internet speeds up transporting information. It also gives a dramatic change to enterprises’ communication. From EDI to Web-based technology, the improvement of communication gives firms a chance to realize just-in-time operation. Meanwhile this kind of improvement also helps them cost down and meliorates business process.
Purchasing materials is a very important part of industrial production. Many manufacturers do their best to solve purchasing problems. There are many researches using different concepts to discuss this agenda. These papers point out that “E-Procurement” is an effective solution of purchasing process problems.
This study focuses on the high technology manufacturers in Taiwan. We try to find out whether the factor”collaboration” would influence them using E-Procurement or not. And we also try to confirm whether the factor “collaboration” would influence competitive priorities or not.
Although we discover that those manufacturers are agree with the importance of e-procurement, there are not so many firms using it. Those who have used e-procurement often connect stock management and production planning systems with e-procurement system. But they do not emphasize on combining e-procurement system with product design process.
Maybe connecting stock management and production planning systems with e-procurement system can lower production cost and improve production efficiency. Using e-procurement system to collaborate with suppliers in production design will add more value to products. It also can maximize the profit and gives firms competitive advantage.
In this study, we use stepwise regression to analyze the data. We discover:
1. When manufacturers using e-procurement on material purchasing, the application of collaboration will has significant influence on their competitive priorities.
2. When manufacturers using e-procurement on material purchasing, the management of collaboration information will has significant influence on their competitive priorities.
Manufacturers also think when using e-procurement on material purchasing, he application of collaboration and the management of collaboration information will influence on their production cost, quality, delivery, and flexibility.
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