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Record W2066254791 · doi:10.5539/ass.v10n1p250

Strategic Procurement and Financial Performance of Iranian Manufacturing Companies

2013· article· en· W2066254791 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueAsian Social Science · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicPublic Procurement and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcurementBusinessPurchasingStrategic sourcingProfit (economics)Industrial organizationQuality (philosophy)Order (exchange)MarketingStrategic financial managementFinanceStrategic planningEconomicsMicroeconomics

Abstract

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Procurement has turned into the strategy for cutting cost and improving quality in order to increase the efficiency of the procurement function and reduce production costs. The objective of this study is to scrutinize the interrelation between the level of strategic procurement and financial performance of manufacturing companies in Iran. A cross-sectional explanatory study was designed to identify Iranian manufacturing company’s procurement management practices and performance outcome. Findings of this study noted a positive relationship between the strategic procurement and financial performance of the companies. For developing strategic procurement, firms should therefore improve the skills in their purchasing professionals, tally the strategic procurement with overall business strategy with long-term plans, select the potential and key suppliers, and create a good relationship with them. These factors could affect a firm’s financial performance and increase profit.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.926
Threshold uncertainty score0.376

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it