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MANSCI
2006
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13 years 3 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
EOR
2007
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13 years 3 months ago
Multiattribute electronic procurement using goal programming
One of the key challenges of current day electronic procurement systems is to enable procurement decisions transcend beyond a single attribute such as cost. Consequently, multiatt...
S. Kameshwaran, Y. Narahari, Charles H. Rosa, Deva...
CACM
2006
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13 years 3 months ago
Software frameworks for advanced procurement auction markets
Traditional auctions such as the English and first-price sealed-bid auctions have been adopted as another tool for procurement negotiations. Throughout the past decade many new auc...
Martin Bichler, Jayant Kalagnanam
ELECTRONICMARKETS
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Current Trends and Challenges in Electronic Procurement: An Empirical Study
The following paper presents results from a longitudinal study on the use of ICT for B2B-related business processes in large Swiss companies. In an empirical survey, 68 questionna...
Christian Tanner, Ralf Wölfle, Petra Schubert...
ANOR
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Application of multi-dimensional procurement auction in single-period inventory models
Procurement is one of the major activities in the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), which is closely coupled with inventory management. Any improvement in this area will h...
Pooya Farahvash, Tayfur Altiok
AAAI
2006
13 years 4 months ago
TPBOSCourier: A Transportation Procurement System (for the Procurement of Courier Services)
TPBOSCourier is the Transportation Procurement and Bid Optimization System (TPBOS) for Philips Electronics to automate and optimize its procurement of courier services. It was joi...
Andrew Lim, Zhou Xu, Brenda Cheang, Wee-Kit Ho, St...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Argumentation-based agents for eProcurement
Procurement is the complete process of obtaining goods and services
Paul-Amaury Matt, Francesca Toni, Thanassis Stourn...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Queueing Network Modeling and Lead Time Compression of Electronic Procurement
Abstract- Procurement, i.e., the process of obtaining materials or services and managing their inflow into organizations, is a critical process in supply chain management. Internet...
C. V. L. Raju, Y. Narahari