Resource consumption was elicited by an expert panel, identifying inpatient and nursing home stays, visits, exams and analyses, for each disease state. Unit costs were based on Portuguese official sources: the Public Health Procurement Catalogue (SPMS) was used for drugs used at the hospital; hospitalizations and other hospital services were valued according to Portaria 20/2014 (Ministério da S...

In this position paper we present and defend a set of statements regarding ERP procurement. The statements highlight the importance of ERP procurement processes and propose that they should be as well-defined and systematic as possible. For this reason, we advocate the use of formal notations for structuring the criteria used during ERP selection, for describing ERPs with respect to these crite...

We design approximate weakly group strategy-proof mechanisms for resource reallocation problems using Milgrom and Segal’s deferred acceptance auction framework: the radio spectrum and network bandwidth reallocation problems in the procurement auction setting and the cost minimization problem with set cover constraints in the selling auction setting. Our deferred acceptance auctions are derived ...

The banking landscape in Europe and Germany has a polypolistic market structure with an average vertical range of integration of 80%, implying high process redundancies. Accumulating processes for standardized products is one way to achieve efficiency improvements. “Smart sourcing” can change the production mix of banks lead to a concentration of processes. A challenge is the lack of consistent...

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. HTTP is not only used for communication purpose, it is also used for file/data transfer, chatting, etc. The HTTPS protocol to guarantee privacy and security in transactions ranging from home banking...

Coordinating procurement decisions for a family of products that share a constrained resource, such as an ocean shipping container, is an important managerial problem. However due to the problem’s difficult mathematical properties, efficient and effective solution procedures for the problem have eluded researchers. This paper proposes two heuristics, for the capacitated, coordinated dynamic dem...

The joint decision making of procurement lot-size, supplier selection, and carrier selection has potential to reduce buyer’s purchasing expenditures. Furthermore, the total logistics cost can also come down through economies of scale in the purchasing and transportation costs, and reduction in supply chain disruptions such as rejections and late deliveries. We study a procurement setting in whi...

Enterprise Resource Planning application software is appropriate for organizations in all economic sectors including banking industry. This wide applicability is largely possible as ERP offers considerable flexibility to customize the software by tailoring it to the individual organizational needs. In this short review paper, it is attempted to enumerate potential and prospects of ERP system in...

Cost efficiency measures the cost of resource by output production. While conventional cost efficiency models set targets separately for each DMU, There are cases where the Central decision making is seeking the above targets, and at the same tries to obtain the target of Min cost efficiency for the total consumption. in this paper we consider that there is a centralized decision maker (DM). In...

This paper studies the optimal procurement of a large-scale project. The project consists of several subprojects to be procured in a predetermined order and yields its full return upon completion. In the unique Markov perfect equilibrium of the dynamic procurement game, I find that: (1) Even though the procurer lacks long term commitment power, both the procurer and suppliers strictly prefer th...