The National Health Service (NHS) market led to problems in funding research and development (R&D). The current policy is to resolve these by funding R&D through a national levy on purchasers. The policy does not, however, address the underlying problem that evidence produced by R&D is largely irrelevant to purchasers. The consequences of this policy are likely to be that purchasing will have l...

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...

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...