An increasing number of commercial companies are using online reverse auctions for their sourcing activities. In reverse auctions, multiple suppliers bid for a contract from a buyer for selling goods and/or services. Usually, the buyer has to procure multiple items, which are typically divided into lots for auctioning purposes. By steering the composition of the lots, a buyer can increase the a...

Contracting for infrastructural maintenance has changed significantly over the last couple of decades from the wellknown ’regulatory’ contract towards more innovative and flexible agreements. Indeed these newer methods offer promising benefits: increased flexibility, better performance and consequently less cost. Nonetheless, these benefits are accompanied by higher levels of uncertainty and mo...

In recent years car manufacturers have been gradually moving from the procurement of discrete parts to the procurement of modular systems. However, research into this development has not yet sought to identify how such a shift is likely to influence the operations of key suppliers within a modular supply chain and more specifically, how such suppliers are likely to interpret their respective ap...

Banking of high-quality, appropriately consented human tissue is crucial for the understanding of disease pathogenesis and translation of such knowledge into improvements in patient care. Traditionally, tissue banking has been thought of as primarily an academic research activity, but tissue and biospecimen banking is increasingly assuming clinical importance, especially with the advent of gene...

  Objective: At present, growth factor-containing products such as enamel matrix derivatives, recombinant bone morphogenetic protein (rh-BMP), recombinant platelet derived growth factor and platelet rich plasma (PRP) have gained increasing attention. PRP is an autologous source of platelet growth factors used to enhance healing of soft and hard tissues. PRP has gained popularity due to its auto...

Purpose While empirical studies establish the importance of procurement planning in achieving value for money (VfM) procurement, there is scant evidence demonstrating a link between and regulatory compliance, thus VfM. As result, this study examined how compliance can be applied when practitioners Tanzania seek to maximize VfM through planning. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional rese...

I Acknowledgments I would like to thank all the people that helped me in this project: Thank you to Professor Bráulio Alturas for their guidance and exceptional support. To my company PT-SI for all their openness and contribution during the master. To Ana for their support, patience and dissertation review. To Tiago for his suggestions and for providing me other points of view especially in the...