Purchasing and supply leaders continually search for ways to improve the quality, delivery, and cost of production inputs. Their participation in these proactive supply chain activities can be a significant driver of purchasing and supply management’s use of information technology (IT). Using a transaction cost analysis perspective, we surveyed purchasing and supply professionals at the directo...

Value–based purchasing focuses the decisions of purchasing professionals on the creation of value, rather than on the traditional objectives of cost savings and efficiency. Most of the purchasing researchers see purchasing as a strategic contributor to the added value of the organizations. But only a few contributions discuss the possible kinds of values that the purchasing department could act...

Assessment and selection of suppliers are two most important tasks in the purchasing part in supply chain management. Supplier selection can be considered to be a single or multi-objective problem. From another point of view, it can be a single or multi-sourcing problem. In this paper, an integrated AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS model is proposed to solve the supplier selection problem. This model makes...

Introduction ................... ...... 1546 I. Health Insurance Purchasing ............................ 1552 A. General Background ................................. 1552 B. Purchasing Alliance Activity: The California Experience .......................................... 1554 C. Purchasing Alliance Activity: Other States ........... 1556 II. Antitrust Analysis of Collaborative Purchaser Activi...

in this article we will try to investigate the market of luxury auto and for presenting some view of marketing programs, at first review the supply and demand of auto in market of iran. then we will recover the taste and behavior of costumers in this segment and list the effective factors in purchase decision and if they attend to the brands or not.  then with interview with experts using multi...

using energy as a weapon, the new russia seeks to reconstruct its empire. the russian government has declared an economic model since 2001 entitled rationalization which has been implemented by the putin's government. state ownership especially concerns the oil industry which was expanded by confiscating the yukas company's properties and gazprom's procurement of the apple oil co...

Kraljic’s purchasing portfolio approach has inspired many academics to undertake further research into purchasing portfolio models. Refined models typically recommend one purchasing strategy for each portfolio quadrant. Yet, it has been shown that purchasers make a clear distinction between alternative purchasing strategies within each quadrant. The fundamental assumption of portfolio models se...