Changes in cost sharing and remuneration system in the Netherlands in 2006 led to clear changes in financial incentives faced by both consumers and general practitioner (GPs). For privately insured consumers, cost sharing was abolished, whereas those socially insured never faced cost sharing. The separate remuneration systems for socially insured consumers (capitation) and privately insured con...

This paper analyzes the problem of …rms that need to make investment decisions in capital markets characterized by trading frictions and ex-post bargaining. Trading frictions make switching from one capital supplier to another costly, thus implying that the match between …rms and suppliers generates surplus. Ex-post bargaining implies that suppliers can appropriate part of this surplus. Firms r...

regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.in this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

In many new or repeat purchasing situations, business buyers must decide how many suppliers to consider (a ‘‘choice set’’) in determining which supplier(s) to actually buy from or contract with. This paper develops an optimization approach to determining the size of the choice set, taking into consideration buyer utility and search and evaluation costs. A theoretical model is developed for both...

This paper investigates a model for pricing the demand for a set of goods when multiple suppliers operate discount schedules based on total business value. We formulate the buyers’s decision problem as a mixed binary integer program (MIP) which is a generalization of the capacitated facility location problem (CFLP) and can be solved using Lagrangean heuristics. We have investigated commercially...

Programming as-an administration (SaaS) cloud frameworks empower application administration suppliers to convey their applications through huge distributed computing foundations. Not with standing, because of their imparting nature, SaaS mists are powerless against noxious assaults. In this paper, we show IntTest, an adaptable and viable administration honesty verification system for SaaS mists...

Supplier relationship management is an important research field in Supply Chain Management. This paper aims to study the existing portfolio models for supplier relationship management then apply Svensson(2000)’s model to classify buyer-supplier relationship in an Iranian automotive industry supply chain. Finally present a framework for supplier relationship management. Data for this study was c...

Proof. (i) In a short-term contract, prices must be subgame perfect. Thus, it is easy to see that in the second period the buyer will o¤er the lowest prices that satisfy the participation constraints of the suppliers, i.e., p22 = 2 (c1) + d (d1) for supplier 2 and p s 12 = d1 + 2 (c1) for supplier 1 (since d1 is known at the end of the …rst period). Recalling that the buyer must also incur a pe...

food industries as one of the most important industries in the country are an urgent need to supply raw materials at the macro and micro levels. so one of the main sections requiring serious study is supply chain management and suppliers issues in food industries. the purpose of this study is to identify the criteria to evaluate and rank the suppliers by using fuzzy topsis technique in pabas pr...

This study aims to minimize the total cost of a four-echelon supply chain including suppliers, an assembler, distributers, and retailers. The total cost consists of purchasing raw materials from the suppliers by the assembler, assembling the final product, materials transportation from the suppliers to the assembler, product transportation from the assembler to the distributors, product transpo...