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 ...

The proper purchasing of services has always been one of the major concerns of health insurance. Inattention to the optimum purchase of services has led to serious problems for health systems. Traditional (passive) purchasing has some weaknesses because of problems such as low efficiency in the health system, no targeted resources, low cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness indicators and poor jus...

DREXEL’s Bielec: Purchasing cards are cheaper and easier. FINDING WAYS TO better manage your purchasing strategy can help save considerable sums not just on purchases, but on back-end support costs. For suggestions on how to cut tech procurement costs and control spending, we spoke with CIOs at two universities and a senior manager of higher ed purchasing at one of the biggest tech product supp...

Health reform is complex, and simple solutions tend to be elusive. The speakers at the Strategic Levers for a High-Performing Health System symposium presented valuable insights about two key issues confronting health system reform: strategic purchasing and equity. Given the dollars at stake – $148 billion annually and counting in Canada, nearly $100 billion of which comes from the public purse...

A key issue for strategic supply chain management research is whether purchasing can be a source of long-term competitive advantage. Recent resourcebased works in strategic management suggest that purchasing cannot be a source of long-term competitive advantage. In contrast, recent works in supply chain management suggest that purchasing can be such a source. This article explains why works in ...

Purchasing has increasingly assumed a pivotal strategic role in supply-chain management. Yet, claims of the strategic role of purchasing have not been fully subjected to rigorous theoretical and empirical scrutiny. Extant research has remained largely anecdotal and theoretically under-developed. In this paper, we examine the links among strategic purchasing, supply management, and firm performa...

Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate and examine the impact strategic purchasing practices (SPP) on strategic-fit (SF) by analyzing influence SPP involvement in business strategy formulation with path-goal theory leadership styles as moderators. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data from 320 respondents representing 64 manufacturing firms Middle East, authors measure SPP, inv...

This paper discusses the way that different operational characteristics including existing capacity, scale economies, and production policy have an important influence on the capacity outcomes when firms compete in the market place. We formulate a gametheoretical model where each firm has an existing capacity and faces both fixed and variable costs in purchasing additional capacity. Specificall...