This review of the Mexican Federal e-Procurement system, CompraNet, assesses the system’s ability to ensure that public procurement in Mexico is efficient, effective, transparent and accountable. It measures CompraNet’s scope, functionality and use against global trends in e-procurement in...

We develop a purchasing portfolio method by integrating a company view, a market-based view and a process view, aggregated in a 3-dimensional portfolio cube. Top management typically takes another view on purchasing issues than purchasing itself. Furthermore, it seems crucial to include the...

There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%....

Wieland Appelfeller und Wolfgang Buchholz verstehen Supplier Relationship Management als die von einer Beschaffungsgesamtstrategie ausgehende Gestaltung der strategischen und operativen Beschaffungsprozesse unter Nutzung konventioneller und internetgestützter IT. Als Bezugsrahmen wird das...