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 ...

This study aims to explore the effects of participant motive, system integration, and value-added services on supply chain performance, and the role of E-Procurement Value as a mediating role. We collected data via a cross-industry questionnaire, with total 127 survey instruments available. We analyzed our data using regression model. The results show that participant motive, system integration...

The electricity industry has particular characteristics that create barriers to its successful commercialization. Electrical energy is instantaneously transmitted from generators to end-use equipment according to physical laws rather than commercial contracts. Any blueprint for commercialization must be compatible with these characteristics. The main commercial activities in a restructured elec...

Along with increasing servitization of business, more and more companies today are shifting from selling only products to suffering integrated and customized products and services that deliver value in use. This change reflects, on one hand, the changing strategies of suppliers and their efforts to stay competitive in the market; on the other hand, it also reflects a change in the attitude of t...

The importance of supermarkets in the world food economy has increased radically since the early 1990s. They are now major sellers and buyers of food items not only in developed but also in developing countries. Urbanization and the liberalization of the services sector have been important facilitators of this process. Supermarkets have a significant impact on both producers and consumers. They...

Public procurement is an important instrument for improving the accessibility of the information society. In Europe, in December 2005, the European Commission issued mándate M/376 to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, to harmonize and facilítate the public procurement of accessible ICT products and services by identifying a set of functional European accessibility requirements for public procurement of pro...

This paper deals with the open issue about the choice between a centralized versus a decentralized public procurement strategy. Using a unique dataset on tender prices of selected drugs for hospital usage awarded by a sample of 52 Italian local health service providers (ASLs) between 2009 and 2012, we test which procurement system (centralized, decentralized or hybrid) performs better. Controll...

Universities have been putting more emphasis on developing ancillary services in an effort to make them look better and become more attractive to both prospective students as well as financial donors. However, in making the decision as to what level of ancillary services they should administer, universities face the problem of whether they are compromising their academic quality. Linh Hoang Sen...

Earlier supply chain implementations in EDI and XML have not fully supported the real time and dynamic requirements of e-procurement, in large part due to the limitations of the technologies available. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how Web services can be used to implement a real time and dynamic supply chain operation. In particular, we focus on an e-procurement application in the...