. In a similar vein, public food procurement has also been used to promote a number of positive outcomes. There is growing … smallholders into markets and strengthen rural livelihoods. Despite the expansion of public food procurement from smallholder … farmers, research into these novel strategies is still limited. This paper will address some of the research gaps by …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the information support technologies of integrated production planning … relative technologies are discussed. Finally, a case of the application of information support technologies in networked … manufacturing is illustrated. Findings – Both theory analysis and case experience show that information integration and sharing are …

implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis …