Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate how buyers and the vendors pursue
alignment in collaborative purchasing (CP) of complex medical technologies …

The healthcare industry is viewed as the world's largest industry in terms of budget,
employees, customers, etc. This industry always faces many challenges such as high …

Effective supply chain management is a key differentiator and source of competitive
advantage across several industries, yet many rapid advances in supply chain and logistics …

A group purchasing Organisation (GPO) is an entity which aggregates the purchasing
volume of health care providers to save costs by getting quantity discounts from …

Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) aim to aggregate the purchasing requirements of
many buyers and utilize economies of scale to save costs and obtain quantity discounts from …

Purpose The promulgation of group purchasing organizations (GPOs) into the healthcare
(HC) sector is an invaluable procurement strategy to manage the suppliers effectively. This …

Based on an industrial case study, we present a stochastic model of a supply chain
consisting of a set of buyers and suppliers and a group purchasing organization (GPO). The …

Background Hospitals frequently enter into group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to
manage supply costs, yet there is mixed evidence regarding the benefit for hospitals to …

This paper extends the application of GPOs (group purchasing organizations) to the chain
store industry. We consider a supply chain consisting of several suppliers, a GPO, and …

Die Zeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität der Bundeswehr München am
Lehrstuhl für Materialwirtschaft und Distribution vergeht sprichwörtlich wie im Flug. Das liegt …