Strategic e-sourcing and a resource-based view

An essential problem for enterprises is the planning and the organization of the obtaining all types of resources process, defined as sourcing, and in the case of the utilization of web-based technologies, as e-sourcing. The article presents definitions of basic notions, such as: sourcing, e-sourcing, strategic sourcing and strategic e-sourcing, the concept of resource-based view and classification of resources. The analysis also included the development of supply processes realized on-line. The purpose of this paper is to use a resource-based view to answer management’s questions: whether e-sourcing as the process of sources and means of planning supply into all resources of the enterprise is a process of a strategic meaning for the enterprise? How to organize this process and which web-based solutions technologies can be used in its effective realization? The organizational model for strategic e-sourcing was proposed in which for each of the four distinguished stages, the utilization of web-based technology solutions was suggested.