Supply relationships and e-auctions are complementary procurement forms that specialty coffee roasters can utilize when designing a procurement strategy. We model the roasters’ optimal choices of procurement strategies using an extended newsvendor model. By comparing the optimal strategies in...

Supply relationships and e-auctions are complementary procurement forms that specialty coffee roasters can utilize when designing a procurement strategy. We model the roasters' optimal choices of procurement strategies using an extended newsvendor model. By comparing the optimal strategies in a...