Multiattribute electronic procurement using goal programming

S. Kameshwaran

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.01.010

2007-06-01

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S. Kameshwaran

Y. Narahari *

Charles H. Rosa

Kulkarni, Devadatta M.

Jeffrey D. Tew

DOI：10.1016/j.ejor.2006.01.010

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One of the key challenges of current day electronic procurement systems is to enable procurement decisions transcend beyond a single attribute such as cost. Consequently, multiattribute procurement have emerged as an important research direction. In this paper, we develop a multiattribute e-procurement system for procuring large volume of a single item. Our system is motivated by an industrial procurement scenario for procuring raw material. The procurement scenario demands multiattribute bids, volume discount cost functions, inclusion of business constraints, and consideration of multiple criteria in bid evaluation. We develop a generic framework for an e-procurement system that meets the above requirements. The bid evaluation problem is formulated as a mixed linear integer multiple criteria optimization problem and goal programming is used as the solution technique. We present a case study for which we illustrate the proposed approach and a heuristic is proposed to handle the computational complexity arising out of the cost functions used in the bids. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keyword:

goal programming

e-Procurement

multiattribute auctions

multiple criteria optimization

configurable bids

business rules

volume discount cost functions

bid evaluation problem

mixed integer linear program