6 Opportunities and Challenges for Society 5.0 in Procurement

Atour Taghipour, XiaoWen Lu, and Mustafa Smahi

DOI: 10.1201/9781003177432-9

CONTENTS

  1. 6.1 Introduction
  2. 6.2 The Relation Procurement/Digitalization
  3. 6.3 New Technologies in Procurement
    1. 6.3.1 Big Data
    2. 6.3.2 Robotization
    3. 6.3.3 The Internet of Things (IoT)
    4. 6.3.4 Blockchain
    5. 6.3.5 Smart Contracts
  4. 6.4 Conclusion
  5. References

6.1 Introduction

Still, supply chain management, especially procurement is evolving. So, it’s essential to answer to the new changes and discover the possibilities for company’s elaboration. We can observe various digital transformations, however as Parida et al. (2019) showed an agreed description of digitalization is presently missing. The authors explain digitalization ...

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