2018 硕士论文 Exploration of Big Data in Procurement - Benefits and Challenges 67页

Table of Contents
Abstract .................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgement ................................................................................................................................. 3
List of figures and tables ...................................................................................................................... 6
List of abbreviations ............................................................................................................................. 7
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 8
1.2 Research gap................................................................................................................................ 9
1.3 Research objective and research questions ............................................................................ 10
1.4 Research methodology .............................................................................................................. 10
1.4 Structure of the study ............................................................................................................... 10
2 Literature review ............................................................................................................................. 12
2.1 What is Big Data? ..................................................................................................................... 12
2.2 Business analytics and Big Data analytics .............................................................................. 14
2.3 Types of analytics ...................................................................................................................... 16
2.4 Big Data analytics in supply chain management .................................................................... 17
2.4.1 Implications of 3Vs in supply chain ................................................................................... 18
2.4.2 Key success factors of implementing Big Data in supply chain ........................................ 19
2.4.3 Benefits of Big Data in supply chain management ........................................................... 22
2.4.4 Challenges of Big Data in supply chain management ....................................................... 22
2.4.5 Analytics application in supply chain ................................................................................. 24
2.5 Procurement and Big Data ....................................................................................................... 25
2.5.1 Impact on procurement ....................................................................................................... 27
2.5.2 Potential sources of data ..................................................................................................... 29
2.5.3 Type of analytics needed ..................................................................................................... 30
2.5.4 Current state of procurement and Big Data analytics ....................................................... 31
2.6 Literature synthesis .................................................................................................................. 33
3 Research methodology ..................................................................................................................... 36
3.1 Case selection and data collection ............................................................................................ 36
3.2 Data analysis .............................................................................................................................. 38
4 Analysis and results ......................................................................................................................... 39
4.1 Supply base ................................................................................................................................ 41
4.1.1 Supplier identification ....................................................................................................... 41
4.1.2 Transparency over n-tier suppliers .................................................................................. 44
4.2 Data analytics current state ..................................................................................................... 45
4.3 Desired state .............................................................................................................................. 49
4.4 Role of social media .................................................................................................................. 56
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4.5 Risks of Big Data analytics and trusting Big Data analytics ................................................. 56
5 Discussion and conclusion ............................................................................................................... 58
5.1 Answering research questions.................................................................................................. 58
5.2 Limitations and future research .............................................................................................. 62
6 References ......................................................................................................................................... 64