Article ID: | iaor199511 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 14 |
End Page Number: | 23 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1994 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Sadrian Amir A., Yoon Yong S. |
Keywords: | programming: integer |
Emergence of a new discount pricing schedule called Business Volume Discount becomes a major obstacle for procurement managers in finding the best purchasing strategy. In the context of business volume discount, a supplier offers discounts on total dollar amount of sales volume, not on the quantity or variety of the products purchased from the supplier. This paper describes a Procurement Decision Support System (PDSS) that has been successfully implemented to improve the purchasing activities of regional Bell telephone companies. In most purchasing operations, a flexible procurement plan is considered a necessity because of the uncertainties associated with product demand and procurement budget. PDSS provides this flexibility by combining two different purchasing strategies-purchasing on an