Sentence examples for procurement channel from inspiring English sources

Analysts also liked Kodak's recently announced plans to purge $1 billion from its $6 billion procurement budget by 2002, in part by eliminating vendors who cannot achieve double-digit productivity gains that can be passed along the supply chain and in part by using the Internet as the primary procurement channel.

In the procurement channel, number of competitors appears to have no effect on prices.

For HIV, the mean count of actual suppliers is larger in the procurement channel, and this may understate potential competitors.

This effect is expected to be weaker in the retail channel than the procurement channel, if uncertain quality undermines price competition in the retail sector.

For these countries, the retail channel (IMS) has more molecules with both an originator and at least one generic available than the procurement channel (GPRM).

The income elasticity of generic prices is insignificant in the procurement channel, as expected if tendering forces generics to price at marginal cost, which varies little across countries.

Further, TIs had to switch their procurement channels so that they procured medicines for STIs and condoms from government suppliers rather than the SLP.

Big businesses and the public sector have a role to play in reassuring SMEs, particularly through procurement channels.

Key provisions mean Iran's nuclear activities, future research efforts, procurement channels and supply chains will be closely scrutinised long after the agreed 10-year monitoring period expires.

The only frustrating part of the change for him is going through official procurement channels: ':You can't just call your plumber or contractor," he said.

One participant said they would like to see savings in procurement channelled into a specific pot to fund social programmes, rather than allowing suppliers to adopt their own approaches and risking "gimmicks or tokenism".