Determinants of Supplier Selection in E-procurement Tenders.

Nowadays, new electronic solutions within global e-supply chain allow business partners to obtain and utilize new form of information for business decision making. New e-procurement tools provide competitive advantage and power of purchasing companies to push on supply side. Although, new kind of information from global e-supply chain tools can support suppliers to improve decision making more efficiently. In the paper we are examining the significance of particular information as internal and global ratings, loyalty etc. for decision making to win the procurement tender. For the study, the simulation game was realized and analyzed through decision trees techniques. We have examined different results as from standard correlation tests and show interesting rules for decision making in different situation of suppliers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]