A reverse auction case study: the final chapter

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Stein, Andrew, Hawking, Paul and Wyld, David C (2005) A reverse auction case study: the final chapter. In: E-Commerce and M-Commerce Technologies. Deans, Candace, ed. IRM Press, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

The reverse auction tool has evolved to take advantage of Internet technology and has been identified by many large organisations as a tool to achieve substantial procurement savings. As companies adopt this technology it is important for them to understand the implications of this type of procurement. This chapter re-visits a reverse auction event and discusses the impacts the reverse auction format had upon all participants involved in the auction. In late 2001 a small Australian supplier of transport and logistics services was asked to participate in a reverse auction for services they had provided for five years to a multi-national organisation. They were not successful in retaining their contract position and this chapter looks at the reverse auction and its business impacts two years after the initial auction. The case study is viewed through the eyes of the winning supplier, losing supplier, auction vendor, and buyer. The main outcomes show that the reverse auction struggles to adapt to fluid business conditions and is limited if it is used as only a price fixing mechanism. It did not engender co-operative supply chains or win-win situations between the auction players.

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Item type Book Section
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/24746
DOI 10.4018/978-1-59140-566-5,
Official URL http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/reverse-auction-...
ISBN 9781591405665 (print) 9781591402404 (online)
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1503 Business and Management
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > College of Business
Keywords e-commerce, e-business, Web, business information systems, auctions
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