This work uses unique data from three dairy dependent communities in rural Wisconsin to test established theory and empirical studies that link farm structure to local purchasing patterns and community economic development. A theoretical model of purchasing choices is developed to derive the determinants of local purchasing by dairy farms. This model is tested empirically using a double bounded...

Purchasing management is often approached as a qualitative art. Experience, insight and managerial qualities may indeed make useful contributions. However, in addition to this, the possibilities of an approach based on hard data and figures should not be underestimated. This does not only apply to purchases dealt with by the Purchasing Department, but in particular, also to purchasing activitie...

background: exact determination between children's sleep habits and their growth could help us to prevent this risk factor of children's growth disorders. thus this research was performed to investigate the correlation between sleep habits and growth of preschool children in ahvaz- iran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, the data was obtained by using available sam...

This paper deals with improving the e€ ectiveness of purchasing in a small company. The purchasing has a tremendous in ̄ uence on the performance of manufacturing, as most of the companies purchase about 60% of the components and raw materials from suppliers. Also, the contribution of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to national economy is signi® cant. Realizing the role of purchasing in SMEs...

Multi-site organizations must balance conflicting forces to determine the appropriate degree of purchasing centralization for their respective supplies. The ability to garner quantity discounts represents one of the primary reasons that organizations centralize procurement. This paper provides methodologies to calculate optimal order quantities and compute total purchasing and inventory costs w...

Cooperative purchasing is increasingly seen as a valuable mechanism in the health and care sector in holding down health spending by leveraging the combined volumes of hospitals in the purchase of medical products as well as optimizing purchasing activities especially in hospitals. Little is known, however, about the actual extent of cost-savings that cooperative purchasing generates for partic...

DREXEL’s Bielec: Purchasing cards are cheaper and easier. FINDING WAYS TO better manage your purchasing strategy can help save considerable sums not just on purchases, but on back-end support costs. For suggestions on how to cut tech procurement costs and control spending, we spoke with CIOs at two universities and a senior manager of higher ed purchasing at one of the biggest tech product supp...

 examination of key success factors in the organisation of purchasing  analysis of organisational design characteristics, including structural configurations, product or service characteristics, centralisation and decentralisation and mixed structures  visions of the future of purchasing from both the USA and Europe, and their implications for purchasing organisation  recent research findin...

Introduction All health systems exercise some form of purchasing, which, in its most basic form, constitutes the allocation of funds to provider organizations. When purchasing goes beyond the simple reimbursement of products and services and is aligned to societal healthcare needs and wishes, it has the potential to play a key role in determining a health system’s overall performance. However, ...