For any organization, the most important decision is purchasing goods and services selection is one of the most critical activities of purchase management in supply chain. Significant suppliers play an important role in the competitive market. Better suppliers perform the better organization. The supplier selection of a leading automobile organization is analyzed in this study. Analytic Network...

Procurement is the complete process of obtaining goods and services – from preparation and processing of a requisition through to receipt and approval of the invoice for payment. The support for eProcurement is important for realising agent-based eBusiness applications. This paper proposes the use of argumentation-based agents to support the selection of suppliers for goods and services within ...

Due to the popularity of Internet and growing business-to-consumer electronic commerce, the alternative products or services whose information can be acquired through the webs also significantly increased. In this paper, an intelligent agent system, which was initially designed and implemented for the specific application of supplier selection, is proposed to act for consumers in the matters of...

The Clustered Locations of Urban Services, Transport, and Economic Resources Program (CLUSTER) is an agent-based prototype on modeling retail location choice on supply chains consisting of consumers, retailers, and suppliers. Introduced in Huang and Levinson (2011), this model aims to investigate the effects of transportation cost, consumers’ travel behavior, and suppliers’ locations on retail ...

During the period 1983-86, the period directly following implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system, inpatient hospital care declined. Concurrently, fee-for-service utilization rates for physicians and other noninstitutional suppliers of medical goods and services and for outpatient facility care rose. Medicare expenditures for physicians and other suppliers and for outpatient fa...

The document is providing an overview of the opportunities and threats associated with the usage of applications provided as services using the ASP model. It shows how companies of all sizes can benefit from subscribing to application service providers (ASPs) and which factors have been identified by the customers as well as the suppliers of software services as being critical for the success o...