An Analytical Study Evaluating the Applicability of a Developed Innovative E-Sourcing System for Automobile Based Firm

Automobile based firms involve enterprises that deal with the sale of cars products from different manufactures. Hence, over the years several studies have contributed to e-businesses, but at the moment there are fewer studies that have contributed to improving e-sourcing operation in automobile based firms. Therefore, this paper aims to develop an innovative e-sourcing system for automobile based firms based on Model View Control (MVC) architecture to facilitate procurement operation among consumers and sales staffs. The developed system aims to lessen the labor of sales staff thus decreasing manual task carried out. Additionally, the proposed tool substitutes the manual approach by facilitating administration in the form of automating automobile data. The tool also aids in managing and retaining of clients' data. Furthermore, the developed tool facilitate customers in viewing catalog of new automobile products and ordering new automobile products from several automobile manufacturers such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan etc., whenever they want to without visiting the company. Additionally, the developed innovative e-sourcing system was evaluated using questionnaire data to validate the applicability of tool in maintaining automobile products order between the customer and sales staff based on data from 50 respondents. Hence, statistical analysis was employed to examine the dataset utilizing Microsoft Excel. Results from the analyzed data reveal that the developed innovative e-sourcing system is applicable in supporting sales of automobile based products.