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Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020 Problem definition: In this research, we study how buyers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) affects suppliers’ price quoting strategies. Specifically, we study the impact of automation—that is, the buyer uses a chatbot to automatically inquire about prices instead of asking in person—and the impact of smartness—that is, the buyer signals the use of
Ruomeng Cui, Meng Li, Shichen Zhang
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Logistics Information Management, 1998
Several formal methodologies are proposed for evaluating prospective suppliers. Three popular methods for supplier performance evaluation appear in the literature: categorical, weighted point and cost ratio. However, these techniques have a number of disadvantages associated with them and an alternative approach is suggested which applies dimensional ...
Humphreys, P, Mak, KL, McIvor, R
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Several formal methodologies are proposed for evaluating prospective suppliers. Three popular methods for supplier performance evaluation appear in the literature: categorical, weighted point and cost ratio. However, these techniques have a number of disadvantages associated with them and an alternative approach is suggested which applies dimensional ...
Humphreys, P, Mak, KL, McIvor, R
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2006
To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation.
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To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation.
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Organ procurement: Spanish transplant procurement management
Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 2011Transplantation is an accepted therapeutic option to save or improve the quality of life when organ failure occurs or tissue replacements are needed. However, the lack of organs is the major limitation. The deceased organ procurement organization and professionals provide the solution to this international problem.
María Paula Gómez +5 more
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, 2004 There is growing public interest in alternatives to intellectual property including, but not limited to, prizes and government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be compared within specific creative environments.
Stephen M. Maurer, Suzanne Scotchmer
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Mechanism for Robust Procurements
2012We model robust procurement as an optimization problem. We show that its decision version is NP-complete, and propose a backtracking algorithm with cuts that reduce the search-space to find the optimal solution. We then develop a mechanism that motivates agents to truthfully report their private information (i.e., truthful in dominant strategies ...
Zhang, Y., Verwer, S.E.
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2020
Public procurement refers to the purchase of goods, services, and works which satisfies a public entity’s own needs. It represents a key governmental economic activity which accounts for a significant part of the national public expenditure. According to some estimations, around 10–15% of the gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on public procurement ...
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Public procurement refers to the purchase of goods, services, and works which satisfies a public entity’s own needs. It represents a key governmental economic activity which accounts for a significant part of the national public expenditure. According to some estimations, around 10–15% of the gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on public procurement ...
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Procurement contracting strategies
2006Quality and suppliers performance are essential for procurement. This Paper analyses these important issues from two perspectives. The first part deals with the topic of contracting. It describes the features of some common types of contracts that the buyer may choose according to the circumstances of the procurement.
Federico Dini +8 more
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2013
Public procurement is the area of public administration concerned with the acquisition by the government of goods, works and services from the market place. These include inputs required to carry out investment projects (e.g., school buildings, roads, ports, technology, etc.) and those for the everyday functioning of government services and operations (
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Public procurement is the area of public administration concerned with the acquisition by the government of goods, works and services from the market place. These include inputs required to carry out investment projects (e.g., school buildings, roads, ports, technology, etc.) and those for the everyday functioning of government services and operations (
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