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Purchasing process transformation: restructuring for small purchases

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2005
PurposeReducing purchasing costs remains an ongoing concern for most organizations. The standard purchasing process that works well for large purchases, however, generates proportionately much higher overhead and administrative costs for small purchases leading to purchase delays, high error rate, and poor vendor participation.
Parikh, Mihir A., Joshi, Kailash
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Rationalising the Construction Materials Purchasing Process [PDF]

, 2003
This paper is concerned with the process used in locating and removing inefficiency in the construction materials purchasing process. In the first part, a case study is presented showing the build-up of costs involved in purchasing materials. Potential for substantial savings is revealed.
Gunnigan, Louis, Hore, Alan V., Orr, Trevor   +2 more
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purchase and exit process

American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, 2019
A successful practice purchase, sale, buy-in or buy-out is a life-changing event for all involved. It is worth making the time to plan your ideal purchase or sale and then a backup plan or two. All involved should make decisions with full knowledge of the relevant facts and have a plan that once put into place, will get you where you want to be, when ...
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Purchase Decision Processes in the Internet Age

2014
This work explores the online purchase decision-making behaviour of consumers. It investigates how purchase decision-making processes unfold and how they vary for different groups of individuals. Drawing from the decision analysis and consumer behaviour literatures, a typology of online consumers is introduced to define four distinctive groups based on
Sahar Karimi, K. Nadia Papamichail, Christopher P. Holland   +2 more
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Purchasing: Policies and Processes

2014
This chapter discusses the role of purchasing in ensuring right price for the material purchased and its contribution to profitability given the fact that more than 50 % budget of any organization is spent by its purchasing department. Efficient purchasing also aims at making vendors perform contract on time and delivery of quality material.
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Assessing Buyer’s Energy Consumed in the Purchase Process

2021
Buyers within the process of purchases require new system approaches to assess their fatigue for in-store service improvement. The buyer’s fatigue can be assessed by examining energy consumed during the purchase process. The neuromarketing concept is an innovative direction which can boost the effectiveness of end-consumers feedback for retailer.
Andrii Galkin, Paula Bajdor, Dmytro Prunenko, Iryna Balandina, Iryna Polchaninova, Mykola Pysarevskyi, Iryna Pysareva, Olha Radionova   +7 more
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Neuroemotions and Behavior in the Purchase Process

EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES IN IMAGINATIVE CULTURE
Emotions are the fundamental pillar of neuromarketing, the perception of hedonic, utilitarian value, the emotions experienced by customers during the buying process and the effect the behavior of each stage is seen from the brain structures of the mind. The sample selected for the study was 354 real customers of supermarkets in the city of Riobamba and
null Luz Maribel, null Vallejo-Chávez, null María Isabel, null Gavilánez-Vega, null Ana Julia, null Vinueza-Salinas, null María Guadalupe Escobar-Murillo   +6 more
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Blogs Usage in Purchasing Process

2017
Blogs are considered as modern communication medium. They are currently used as a tool of communication content strategy and present their activities in the Internet environment. Blogs allow companies to reach the target audience by distribution of complex information.
Martina Ferencová, Lukáš Kakalejčík, Sebastian Kot   +2 more
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A purchasing process maturity model

2022
Based on a literature review, a maturity model focused on the P2P process and contract management has been developed. Then, a quantitative research approach was used to gain insights into municipalities’ current and desired maturity levels of Dutch municipalities.
Snijders, Marlou, Belotti Pedroso, Carolina, Vos, Frederik G.S., Delke, Vincent   +3 more
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