A web-based architecture for implementing electronic procurement in military organisations

[[abstract]]In recent years, the vital development of the Internet offers increasing opportunity for electronic commerce. E-commerce attracts much attention from enterprises, not only to get connection with others and make a profit from their product/service, but also to reduce the costs of internal and external operational procedures. Procurement is a very critical task because it is a matter not only of making a profit, but also of staying in business in a highly competitive environment. In the government sector, procurement is sometimes the source of corruption, scandal and abuse of public resources. Besides inadequately qualified personnel, “transparency” of the procurement environment becomes another source of problems in procurement procedure. This paper investigates a case study of e-commerce in the Taiwanese military organization by diagnosing and preventing procurement faults, constructing a transparent procurement environment, and enhancing military procurement efficiency, and is an attempt to establish an e-market environment via web-based architecture on e-procurement procedure. The design of a relational database is introduced and system implementation is presented. Also, efficiency and benefits of the proposed system are discussed.[[notice]]補正完畢[[incitationindex]]SCI[[incitationindex]]E