Everything about Procurement software

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Procurement softwareA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Data-Driven Decisions: Leveraging Predictive Analytics in Procurement Software for Smarter Supply Chain Management in the United StatesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Defense acquisitionsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Incorporating Software Agents into Supply Chains: Experimental Investigation with a Procurement Task1Cited 88 times
5. Go sideways: CoupaA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Oracle CorporationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Incorporating Software Agents into Supply Chains: Experimental Investigation with a Procurement Task1

  Mark E. Nissen, Kishore Sengupta · 2006 · MIS Quarterly · 88 citations

• Technology choice and its performance: Towards a sociology of software package procurement

  Neil Pollock, Robin Williams · 2007 · Information and Organization · 34 citations

• The Potential of Intelligent Software Agents in the World Wide Web in Automating Part Procurement

  Li‐Pheng Khoo, Shu Beng Tor, Stephen S.G. Lee · 1998 · International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management · 14 citations

• Software frameworks for advanced procurement auction markets

  Martin Bichler, Jayant R. Kalagnanam · 2006 · Communications of the ACM · 10 citations

• Semantic Analysis for Identifying Security Concerns in Software Procurement Edicts

  Rodrigo N. Peclat, Guilherme N. Ramos · 2017 · New Generation Computing · 6 citations

• A developed software agent-knowledge-assisted procurement management tool for retailing enterprise

  Bokolo Anthony Jnr · 2019 · VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems · 6 citations

• Towards Software Component Procurement Automation with Latent Semantic Analysis

  Hans-Gerhard Gross, Marco Lormans, Jun Zhou · 2007 · Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science · 5 citations

• A New Approach Towards Procurement of Software Models Via Distributed Business Models

  Ramin Nasiri, Ali Moeini, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh · 2004 · The Journal of Supercomputing · 4 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Data-Driven Decisions: Leveraging Predictive Analytics in Procurement Software for Smarter Supply Chain Management in the United States

  Babatunde Bamidele Oyeyemi · 2023 · International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation · 8 citations

• Government IT Procurement Policy & Firm Behavior: Evidence from a French Open Source Software Policy

  Frank Nagle · 2023 · Academy of Management Proceedings · 1 citations

• Challenges in Public Software Procurement in Nepal: Structural and Institutional Issues

  Suraj Maharjan, Dr. Suman Thapaliya · 2026 · Engineering and Technology Journal · 0 citations

• Digital Procurement Platforms and Marketing Efficiency of Software Firms: Evidence from Mobile Procurement and E-Sourcing Adoption in Nigeria

  Doris Akunne NNENANYA · 2026 · AKSU Journal of Management Sciences · 0 citations

• AI Software in Supplier Search and its Impact on Global Procurement Strategies

  Nils Thomas Finger, Nils Brehme · 2025 · International Journal of Procurement Management · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Defense acquisitionsUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1999
• 📕Information technologyUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1995
• 📕Contract pricingUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1986
• 📕Air Force C-17 embedded computersUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1994
• 📕Air Force F-22 embedded computersUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1994
• 📕Embedded computer systemsSamuel W. Bowlin · 1991
• 📕Earth Observing System/Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (EOS/AMSU-A)Robert Schwantje · 1994
• 📕Hearings on H.R. 5064 ... and H.R. 4842 ... before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, March 13 and 21, 1984United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations. · 1984

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