The presentation covers recent and current procurement management team research activities at Hanze university, notably SME procurement, sustainable procurement, and innovation procurement.

Waste Treatment Technologies has made a considerable growth the past couple of years. The organization is designing, constructing, building and maintaining waste treatment facilities all over the world. Several aspects within the organization have grown together with the recent developments. However, …

Overview of recent and current procurement research projects @ Hanze. Prepared for farewell lecture Professor Gert Walhof and for the re-accreditation by the International Facilities Management Association

As a German conglomerate company specialized in electrical engineering and electronics, operates Siemens the world market with eight different divisions ranging from Power and Gas to Mobility. This study refers to the division Siemens Building Technologies (BT), the worlds market leader for energy efficient …

Presentatie bij het bestuur van de NEVI Research Stichting (NRS)

Ondernemers in het midden- en kleinbedrijf (mkb) zijn vooral met klanten bezig. Alle activiteiten zijn erop gericht. Zo moet inkoop ook direct bijdragen aan waarde voor de klanten. Ondernemers vinden rendement belangrijk als het gaat om investeringsbeslissingen en het is zaak dat op een simpele manier …

The Procurement Platform Groningen is a cooperation of 15 tendering authorities in the northern part of the Netherlands. The Platform requested Hanze to start a research project concerning the Social Added Value of the Platform’s spend. The first phase of this research has now been completed. This phase …

This paper provides guidance for developing risk-based management tools to improve the procurement (purchasing) performance of SMEs. Extant academic literature only offers little support on developing such tools and does not consider the wide variety of SMEs. The paper defines a procurement tool for …

This survey is about recognizing patterns in the way Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) organize their procurement activities. The scope of the survey is limited to the key commodities of the SME. A key commodity is defined as the purchased product or service group which is essential for realizing the …

Posterpresentatie USE Conferentie 2015.