'Suppliers will kick and scream before they participate...' In the world of B2B auctions, the reverse auction is king. But is that just the buyer talking? Adrian Mello investigates the benefits or ...

Auction software provides consumers an exciting, competitive approach to purchasing the goods and services they need. However, launching your online auction site has historically meant learning ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, ...

Following the demise this month of ProcurePoint, a third-party provider of hotel reverse auction software, industry sources told Business Travel News that other vendors are attracting an increasing ...

From 2005 to 2008, Maricopa County, Ariz., supplied bulk flour for its eight jails, which used 5.5 million pounds over the course of those three years. During that time, the price of bulk flour spiked ...

Suppliers existing on already thin margins are fearful of being beaten down on price by powerful buyers. So why would they embrace reserve auctions, which end up awarding contracts to the cheapest ...

Purchasing officials at the University of the Incarnate Word say they have saved a surprising 29.5 percent on their latest large purchase -- a big order of lighting equipment -- by using a relatively ...

Business 2.0, CIO, Information Week, Electronic Business Mobile Computing & Communications. our years ago, after hearing the buzz about reverse auctions, leaders of the Army's ...

In the world of B2B auctions, the reverse auction is king. Reverse auctions are so named because, as the auction progresses, prices are bid down rather than up as they are with ordinary forward ...