Indicator selection of joint purchasing mode of small and medium-size enterprises

Abstract

There are mainly 3 types of joint purchasing modes of SMEs: joint purchasing mode constructed by SMEs spontaneously, joint purchasing mode constructed by industry association, and joint purchasing mode constructed by the third party. How to choose joint purchasing mode is critical for SMEs to implement joint purchasing. Based on theoretical study and practical survey, it is found in the paper that when SMEs choose or establish joint purchasing organization, 15 evaluation indicators of 4 dimensions including operation management capacity, technical capacity, market influence capacity, and service capacity are used for the evaluation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.