We develop a purchasing portfolio method by integrating a company view, a market-based view and a process view, aggregated in a 3-dimensional portfolio cube. Top management typically takes another view on purchasing issues than purchasing itself. Furthermore, it seems crucial to include the...

pt. 1.A Strategy for Analyzing Your Suppliers --Ch. 1.Why Analyze Your Suppliers? --Ch. 2.Choosing Which Suppliers to Analyze --pt. 2.Components of a Corporate Analysis of Suppliers --Ch. 3.Creating a Corporate Analysis --Ch. 4.Investigating What is Behind Financial Figures --Ch. 5.Analyzing...

This review of the Mexican Federal e-Procurement system, CompraNet, assesses the system’s ability to ensure that public procurement in Mexico is efficient, effective, transparent and accountable. It measures CompraNet’s scope, functionality and use against global trends in e-procurement in...