Krishna and Rosenthal (1996), we construct a procurement model allowing for cost synergies. The equilibrium bid function maps …

strategies; procurement-driven outsourcing decisions; the focus on cost-per-square-foot rather than more holistic productivity …

view of their role in corporate strategy. This study aims to understand if procurement professionals have evolved in the … creation by different levels of procurement staff. The answers were compared with responses of a reference group that comprised … business school students who had never been exposed to professional procurement as a function or skill. Findings The results …

as a source of information in procurement. Design/methodology/approach – This research analyzes whether different …

Purpose – This paper intends to further understanding of the world marketplace by examining the procurement practices … examination will focus on the extent to which the smaller and less developed countries of Eastern Europe utilize IT procurement as … concerned about facilitating their adoption of IT procurement systems. Research limitations/implications – The findings are …

evaluate bids based on multiple criteria instead of lowest price, without infringing public procurement acts. Originality …

of procurement and supply chain management. This process has been designed by merging the best elements from each of the …

, its success is strongly dependent on the development of a customer-driven procurement. The evolution of the role of … procurement is accompanied by the growing integration between the company’s procurement and sales functions, as well as by the … growing interconnection and interaction between the procurement function and the company’s clients. Originality/value – The …

Global procurement of service activities has received an increasing amount of managerial attention in recent years …

analyzed in the fields of procurement and distribution planning using an analytical approach as well as simulation runs … usually lead to superior results compared with different decentralized approaches in the field of procurement planning and … prototype is developed to quantify the value of cooperation in the fields of procurement planning and distribution planning.  …