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Abstract

The paper reviews how e-procurement merges with green procurement to develop a procurement that seeks to advance supplier identification, environmental standards, and life cycle assessment. E-procurement entails purchase activities that are planned, executed, and controlled using web-based tools; the system has emerged to be vital in improving the performance of the procurement function. Several systematically implemented approaches of green procurement aimed at buying environmentally friendly products and services include suppliers with an eco-labeling system. The study also reveals that these two systems need to be linked to achieve global sustainability goals since the existing applications do not address compliance and sustainability measures in real-time. Therefore, this study seeks to close this gap by proposing and validating a digital model that combines the above elements to monitor suppliers’ environmental performance continually and ensure legal compliance with their lifetime. Thus, the study helps to advance the research in sustainable digital procurement transformation and imparts knowledge of applying modern technologies like blockchain, big data, and AI to manage supply chains more efficiently.