The benefits of collaborative purchasing are many, yet in the healthcare sector, in particular at hospitals, it is still uncommon. In this paper we identify major impediments for collaborative purchasing, resulting in a first component of our proposed collaborative e-purchasing model for hospitals; as a second component it contains a collaborative purchasing typology. After analysis of a first ...

Our willingness to pay a certain price for foreign money must ultimately and essentially be due to the fact that this money possesses a purchasing power as against commodities and services in that country. On the other hand, when we offer so and so much of our own money, we are actually offering a purchasing power as against commodities and services in our own country. Our valuation of a foreig...

Background Strategic purchasing in healthcare services is a key component in improving health system performance, and it has been one of the most important issues in health system reform around the world, especially Europe in the last decade. Iran health system and insurance, although sometimes considered the issue of strategic purchasing goals, has not been made possible to achieve or even to ...

10 Supply Chain Forum An International Journal Vol. 12 N°3 2011 www.supplychain-forum.com Seung-Kuk Paik, Ph.D. College of Business and Economics California State University, Northridge, USA [email protected] This article presents the findings of a survey study of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) with regard to their supply management. The main purpose of this article is to underst...

The concept of cooperative purchasing is as old as ancient Egypt and Babylon. Even in those days groups of independent organizations cooperated in one or more steps of the procurement process by pooling their purchasing volumes, information and/or resources to improve their performances. The main objective of this paper is to identify and classify the current forms of cooperative purchasing acc...

In this paper we present a Multi-Agent simulation model to investigate purchasing activities in an organizational environment. Starting point is the observation that the majority of purchasing activities in organizations is usually performed without any involvement of the organization’s purchasing department. The purpose of the experiments is to investigate if and how certain factors determine ...

Kraljic’s purchasing portfolio model, which was introduced in 1983, still is the dominant approach in the profession. Contrary to the growing use of the Kraljic matrix, there are problems and unanswered questions with respect to measurement and strategic issues. Based on explorative case studies, the critique of Kraljic’s model has been disputed and refuted to a large extent. This study describ...

This paper investigates the current practice with regard to the involvement of the purchasing department(s) in NPR purchasing. First we review the literature about NPR purchasing, and especially the major benefits and challenges of involving purchasing department in NPR purchasing. Furthermore the paper explores some theoretical explanations of why certain tasks regarding NPR purchasing should ...

Climate change as a result of human activities is a problem of a paramount importance. The global temperature on Earth is gradually increasing and it may lead to substantially hotter summers in a moderate belt of Europe, which in turn is likely to influence the air conditioning penetration in this region. The current work is an attempt to predict air conditioning penetration in different reside...

We study the efficiency of dealers’ liquidity provision and the desirability of policy intervention in over-the-counter (OTC) markets during crises. Our theory emphasizes two key frictions in OTC markets: finding counterparties takes time, and trade is bilateral, with quantities and prices determined by bargaining. We model a crisis as a negative shock to investors’ asset demands that lasts unt...