naa a22 4500 510760015 CHVBK 20180411083136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12525-013-0130-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12525-013-0130-x Procurement maturity and IT-alignment models: overview and a case study [Elektronische Daten] [Johan Versendaal, Marjan van den Akker, Xiaochun Xing, Bastiaan de Bevere] More and more firms urge their procurement departments to optimize their processes and leverage IT in order to reduce costs, increase quality and sustainability of received products and services, and shorten delivery times. Already in the nineties of the previous century Henderson and Venkatraman (IBM Systems Journal 32(1):4-16, 1993) identified business/IT-alignment as a key to organizational performance. Many maturity and IT-alignment models have since been developed, yet, specific procurement maturity models, including business/IT-alignment principles, are scarce. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of procurement maturity models that include IT-alignment. We start with a presentation of business/IT-alignment principles, detailing dimensions (areas of concern) for alignment, specifically for the procurement domain. Subsequently, maturity principles are discussed, resulting in maturity levels for the procurement domain. Finally, an in depth study of a specialized procurement model for the construction industry is presented, in which simulation techniques for testing are successfully applied. The discussed models and application justify a business/IT-alignment approach for procurement departments. Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, 2013 Procurement nationallicence Purchasing nationallicence Maturity nationallicence Business/IT-Alignment nationallicence Versendaal Johan HU University of Applied Sciences, Nijenoord 1, 3552, Utrecht, AS, Netherlands aut van den Akker Marjan Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands aut Xing Xiaochun Swets Information Services, Lisse, Netherlands aut de Bevere Bastiaan Information Department at Ballast Nedam, Utrecht, Netherlands aut Electronic Markets Springer Berlin Heidelberg 23/4(2013-12-01), 295-306 1019-6781 23:4<295 2013 23 12525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-013-0130-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-013-0130-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Versendaal Johan HU University of Applied Sciences, Nijenoord 1, 3552, Utrecht, AS, Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van den Akker Marjan Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Xing Xiaochun Swets Information Services, Lisse, Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Bevere Bastiaan Information Department at Ballast Nedam, Utrecht, Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Electronic Markets Springer Berlin Heidelberg 23/4(2013-12-01), 295-306 1019-6781 23:4<295 2013 23 12525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer