Procurement of prescriber support systems

Selection of Suitable Procurement Systems in Construction: a Multi-criteria Decision Support Model

The use and development of appropriate procurement systems helps to avoid problems and is the key to the attainment of project specific goals. A systematic and consistent approach for procurement selection is essential to achieve the project success and ensure value for the client’s money. This paper presents a decision support model developed, based on Multi Attribute Utility Technique. Four r...

A New Procedure for Reactive Power Market Clearing Considering Distributed Energy Resources

Traditionally, conventional generation unit was used to provide ancillary services e.g. reactive power support, and spinning reserve. Nonetheless, with the emergence of highly penetrated distributed energy resources (DERs) systems and considering how beneficial they can be; it appears reasonable to use them as reactive power providers. Therefore, this paper introduces a new procedure for DERs t...

مدل سازی عوامل کلیدی آمادگی بیمارستان‌ها برای سیستم تدارک الکترونیک با استفاده از نقشه شناختی فازی (مورد مطالعه: یک بیمارستان تخصصی در تهران)

Background and Aim: Nowadays, e-procurement systems have provided many opportunities to improve supply and procurement activities in healthcare industry through Internet-based electronic communications for supplier-buyer interactions. Considering the fact that the implementation of these systems is not successful in many cases, extensive preparation in relevant areas is necessary before impleme...

Uncommon Sense and Artificial Intelligence for Re- Engineering Procurement Systems

Common sense and occasional innovations have hitherto failed to fuel more than incremental improvements in construction procurement systems. Even the bolder initiatives have not yet unleashed promised productivity gains which have been allegedly restrained by adversarial and otherwise inappropriate procurement systems. Both (a) the present proliferation of procurement options; and (b) the scatt...

A decision support system for procurement risk management in the presence of spot market