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Buying business services: towards a structured service purchasing process

van der Valk, Wendy; Rozemeijer, Frank - In: Journal of Services Marketing 23 (2009) 1, pp. 3-10

structured purchasing process which can help organisational buyers to overcome the problems associated with services purchasing … means of literature research and a questionnaire distributed among Dutch purchasing managers. Additionally, they draw on … that developing a proper specification is an important prerequisite for purchasing services successfully. Based on these …

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Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies: profit implications of price discounting

Longo, Christopher J. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 6, pp. 447-460

Global pharmaceutical pricing strategies have been debated in published literature; however, these debates have not accounted for the differences in elasticity of demand between the public, private and cash paying markets. A mathematical model is presented that explores several plausible...

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Procurement Mechanisms in the Presence of Learing by Doing

Oh, Se-Kyoung - 2005

In markets where suppliers experience learning by doing over time or, more generally, economies of scale in production, buyers are auctioning off longer-term contracts with an eroding price policy. Under an eroding price contract, the buyer initially competitively awards production to the...

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Management of Procurement Cost in Commercial (Trading) and Manufacturing Enterprises

Stojanovic, Slobodan; Madarac, Sandra Mrvica - In: Business Logistics in Modern Management 11 (2011), pp. 79-89

Purchasing function is, along with a sale, one of the most important functions of every commercial (trading) company …. Management of procurement is related to selection and number of suppliers, policy relations with them, setting of purchasing … has been changing with market developments. Purchasing is no longer just a passive function for selecting the best …

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An exact algorithm for the Capacitated Total Quantity Discount Problem

Manerba, Daniele; Mansini, Renata - In: European Journal of Operational Research 222 (2012) 2, pp. 287-300

so to satisfy product demand at minimum purchasing cost. The problem, known as Total Quantity Discount Problem (TQDP), is …

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Refining and end use of coal liquids. Quarterly report, January--March 1994

2008

A key objective is to determine the most desirable ways of integrating coal liquefaction liquids into existing petroleum refineries to produce transportation fuels meeting current and future, e.g. year 2000, Clean Air Act Amendment (CAAA) standards. An intregral part of the above objectives is...

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An overview of alternative fossil fuel price and carbon regulation scenarios

Wiser, Ryan; Bolinger, Mark - 2008

The benefits of the Department of Energy's research and development (R&D) efforts have historically been estimated under business-as-usual market and policy conditions. In recognition of the insurance value of R&D, however, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the...

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Comparative cost analyses: total flow vs other power conversion systems for the Salton Sea Geothermal Resource

Wright, G.W. - 2007

Cost studies were done for Total Flow, double flash, and multistage flash binary systems for electric Energy production from the Salton Sea Geothermal Resource. The purpose was to provide the Department of energy's Division of Geothermal Energy with information by which to judge whether to...

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China Refrigerator Information Label: Specification Development and Potential Impact

Fridley, David; Fridley, David; Zheng, Nina; Zhou, Nan; … - 2008

drafts of the final grade specifications, this work was completed. In addition, in order to effectively evaluate the impact …

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Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)

Piette, Mary Ann; Ghatikar, Girish; Kiliccote, Sila; … - 2009

The development of the Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification, also known as OpenADR or Open Auto-DR, began in 2002 following the California electricity crisis. The work has been carried out by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC), which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley...

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