Supplier Selection and Assessment by University Procurement Officers

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Bouhnik ◽  
Yahel Giat ◽  
Issachar Zarruk
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Informal Information ◽  
Information Channels ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
Selection And Assessment

Supplier selection and assessment is at the core of the procurement process. This study investigates how procurement officers in Israel's universities select and assess their suppliers. The authors explore which information channels officers use to assess suppliers and find that incidental and informal information sources are the most frequently used followed by official sources. The authors examine the criteria used by officers to select suppliers and identify quality and price as significantly more important than most other criteria. Finally, the authors do not find strong evidence that officers categorize suppliers to key and non-key suppliers according to the university's goals.

A theoretical analysis of independent business owners' preferences for informal information sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Chan ◽  
Jonathan Brier ◽  
Zahra Farhadi ◽  
Myeong Lee ◽  
Shawn Janzen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Informal Information

THE USE OF CARIN LANGUAGE AND ALGORITHMS FOR INFORMATION INTEGRATION: THE PICSEL SYSTEM

2000 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 383-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANÇOIS GOASDOUÉ ◽  
VÉRONIQUE LATTÈS ◽  
MARIE-CHRISTINE ROUSSET
Keyword(s):  
Information Integration ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
Integration System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Information Server ◽  
Logical Formalism

PICSEL is an information integration system over sources that are distributed and possibly heterogeneous. The approach which has been chosen in PICSEL is to define an information server as a knowledge-based mediator in which CARIN is used as the core logical formalism to represent both the domain of application and the contents of information sources relevant to that domain. In this paper, we describe the way the expressive power of the CARIN language is exploited in the PICSEL information integration system, while maintaining the decidability of query answering. We illustrate it on examples coming from the tourism domain, which is the first real case that we have to consider in PICSEL, in collaboration with the travel agency Degriftour. see

scholarly journals What Does the Evidence Tell Us about ‘Thinking and Working Politically’ in Development Assistance?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niheer Dasandi ◽  
Ed Laws ◽  
Heather Marquette ◽  
Mark Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
The Core ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
High Standards

This article provides a critical review of the evidence on ‘thinking and working politically’ (TWP) in development. Scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognised that development is a fundamentally political process, and there are concerted efforts underway to develop more politically-informed and adaptive ways of thinking and working in providing development assistance. However, while there are interesting and engaging case studies in the emerging, largely practitioner-based literature, these do not yet constitute a strong evidence base that shows these efforts can be clearly linked to more effective aid programming. Much of the evidence used so far to support these approaches is anecdotal, does not meet high standards for a robust body of evidence, is not comparative and draws on a small number of self-selected, relatively well-known success stories written primarily by programme insiders. The article discusses the factors identified in the TWP literature that are said to enable politically-informed programmes to increase aid effectiveness. It then looks at the state of the evidence on TWP in three areas: political context, sector, and organisation. The aim is to show where research efforts have been targeted so far and to provide guidance on where the field might focus next. In the final section, the article outlines some ways of testing the core assumptions of the TWP agenda more thoroughly, to provide a clearer sense of the contribution it can make to aid effectiveness.

scholarly journals Design of a web-based multiagent system for electronic procurement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailesh Atkari
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Multiagent System ◽  
Selection System ◽  
Electronic Marketplace ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
Electronic Procurement ◽  
Decision Engine

The proposed electronic marketplace (EM) is aimed to enhance the procurement process by acting as an intermediary between buyers and suppliers. The proposed EM consists of users (buyers and suppliers), various components and a user interface. As part of the decision engine, a prototype supplier selection system, SupplySelect, is developed and implemented.

Students' Formal and Informal Information Sources

2019 ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Corinna Petra Raith
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Usage Behavior ◽  
Question And Answer ◽  
Informal Information ◽  
Preparation Work

Based on an explorative interview study, this chapter reports on students' usage behavior concerning formal and informal information sources for academic (learning) purposes. In this regard, a variety of information sources was reported, ranging from scholarly materials to applications based on user-generated content like Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, forums, and question-and-answer sites. The findings showed that students' acceptance of information sources varied with an increase in the academic age: the more experienced students were, the more focused their choice of information sources was. Bachelor students utilized diverse sources, while doctoral and PhD students mainly concentrated on scholarly materials and news articles, but used Wikipedia, YouTube, and blogs as well. Regarding such informal sources, bachelor students mainly consulted these for learning purposes, while doctoral/PhD students primarily utilized them for checking up/acquiring information and their preparation work. The results are preliminary in their nature and are to be validated in further research.

Arabised Terminology Issue in the Holy Quran from a Modern and Critical Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
BasmaOdeh Salman Al-Rawashdeh
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Subject ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
The Holy Quran

<p>Arabised terms in the Quran have been the core subject for philologists, linguists and scholar's debates and argument throughout history.</p>This research is considered to be significant because it discusses a significant issue namely the argument of language scholars and philologists over certain terms that allegedly being foreign, while the Quran indicates that it has been revealed in the Arabic tongue. While using the principles of critical scientific researcher is determined to reveal the truth of the Quran, it is without a doubt is true andaccurate when God says “the Quran is revealed in the Arabic tongue”. Majority of the scholars and language philologists accepted this truthful logic. Others claimed the presence of foreign terms in the Quran. While the rest took a middle grounds. Researcher has been able to prove through several scientific methods and the strong evidence of well known scholars, dictionaries and the rules of borrowing among languages, that there is no foreign words especially- Ebla’i and Istebraq- in the Quran. Rather the Quran proves once again that is revealed in Arabic tongue, as well as researcher and every believer.

Green supplier selection with an uncertain probabilistic linguistic MABAC method

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 3125-3136
Author(s):  
Guiwu Wei ◽  
Yan He ◽  
Fan Lei ◽  
Jiang Wu ◽  
Cun Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supplier Selection ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
Green Procurement ◽  
Green Supplier Selection ◽  
Supplier Integration ◽  
Selection Problems ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

In recent years, with the increased voice for protecting the environment by the people all over the world, the governments also have actively adopted more and more measures to further promote environmental conservation and sustainable development. Traditional procurement approaches have not well updated to the current needs of the society, especially for the retail industry which is in relation to the national economy due to numerous products and different suppliers being involved. Therefore, the need for green procurement is more important. The qualified green supplier selection is the core of green procurement, which is the utmost importance in the business competition throughout the supply chain in today’s strong business competition. Thus, in order to obtain the optimal green supplier, integration of Entropy weights and multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) under uncertain probabilistic linguistic sets (UPLTSs) has offered a novel integrated model, in which information Entropy is utilized for calculating objective weights with UPLTSs to acquire the final ranking result of green supplier. Besides, so as to indicate the applicability of devised method, it is confirmed by a numerical case for green supplier selection. Some comparative studies are made with some existing methods. The proposed method can also serve for selecting suitable alternative successfully in other selection problems.

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