Using electronic commerce in purchasing management as productivity means: Bağ-Kur as a model

Ill ABSTRACT Of the innovations based on information and communication technologies, are Internet and electronic commerce via Internet arising at the end of the existing century. Traditional structures in social and economic fields have collapsed after invention of electronic commerce and a new commercial activity, so new oppurtunities, have arised. Electronic commerce, which is mainly applied in business administration field currently, covers the operations about all the commercial activities in organizational and individual level and mechanisms of protection of consumer, competition, finance, accounting and payment systems, taxing, intellectual property rights, security, legali arrangements, concluding the disagrements appear to be the most important subjects in this field. Electronic commerce, which will influence deeply the 21st century accepted as computer age has a new impact on information technologies and systems in management. This situation has led to improvement of new technologies and combination of existing technologies in management. In this way, electronic commerce, has radically changed business applications and role of management. Electronic commerce is an important working field not only for changing business life environment radically, but also for beeing a part of Management Information System in which continious changes in business applications are observed. Electronic commerce is the last example to how it can be used in improvement of productivity of information systems and in creating a competition advantage. Although electronic commerce fails in changing the business life completely, its devices and techniques will take place in Management Information Systems. In consumer markets commerce via internet depends mainly on the fact that everyone posseses an internet. For this reason, the market for the consumer in the internet environment could not rise over a certain potential. Interenterprise market is more available to develop in the internet environment due to its structure. Because in interenterprise market number of operations is small but quantity of operatiaons is large. Purchase decision process is different compared to consumers of these proporties, interenterprise electronic commerce in the internet exhibits a significant progress. We see that published information at this field is limited in our country. In our study, for this purpose, we investigated how interenterprise electronic commerce can be used in purchase management as productivity means, the contribution of internet to productivity and performance of the enterprise. Our study is composed of three parts. In the first part, other than general information about electronic commerce, structure and elements of interenterprise electronic commerce and information systems applications and effects of new business environment and applications developed at this field on purchase productivity have been investigated. In the last part of our study Bağ-Kur Pharmacy Automation System (BEOS) application was discussed aiming at usage of electronic commerce as productivity means in purchase management.