There are other online auction sites, but they are much smaller. eBay's real competition, however, is increasingly coming from all over the internet, not least from people selling directly off their own websites and using online marketing methods, such as purchasing search terms on competing sites such as Google, to promote themselves.
Agencies are also evaluated on demonstrating continuous progress towards implementing additional statutory or Executive Order targets and goals reflected in their annual Sustainability Plans, such as green purchasing and electronics stewardship.
Were they fully merged--they remain distinctly separate despite sharing a chief executive and such tasks as purchasing, tech networks and some car chassis, engines and transmissions--the amalgam would be the fourth-largest carmaker on the planet.
Meanwhile, Brazilian manufacturers trying to export to China face steep non-tariff barriers on manufactured goods, such as obstructive state purchasing agents.
While some measures such as changes in purchasing take longer to impact financial performance, early results give us confidence that we have begun taking the right steps to address these issues and position the business for further success.
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As we built a multi-functional shared services capability with IT, HR, and Finance, over time we continued to look for other services such as facilities, purchasing, sales order management, meetings, card services, and fleet management to bring under the umbrella to deliver bottom line saving to the corporation.
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Wary of hyperinflation, people used cigarettes as currency, and sought to protect their savings by purchasing commodities such as art.
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Many are using profits from farming to diversify into such businesses as logistics, purchasing fleets of lorries with help from new car-finance firms.
By pooling resources, creating an administrative post and purchasing services such as handyman or home care as a group, these villages help people stay in their own homes longer.
They wanted to find a way of monitoring those systems responsible for key business applications such as invoicing, payroll and purchasing, and identify which are most at risk of failure.
With new technologies being developed constantly, people are also purchasing diverse devices such as tablet computers and electronic readers.
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And these spikes - controversial and highly suspicious though they may be - feed through into the gas purchasing contracts of customers such as ICI.
The Fed should be mandated to follow a price rule conducting monetary policy in accordance with sensitive market prices, such as gold and other commodities, maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar without inflation.
Yes, it is a phone, or at least can be used as one, but those purchasing the thing aren't terribly likely to be using it as such -- at least not frequently.
Still, with real wages stagnant for decades, many Americans who have grown dependent on cheap imported goods such as polo shirts or power tools could see their purchasing power decrease.
Increasingly, corporate purchasing decisions are influenced by nontechnological attributes such as service and support or leasing programs, he said.
This is even more important for those purchasing a new type of product, such as a tablet, for the first time.
Such a deal would provide marketing and purchasing synergies, as well as input from Ghosn, who has proved he can turn around an automaker with Nissan.
Namely, the purchasing of government sponsored mortgaged-backed securities, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paper, rather than its previous approach of simply buying U.S. Treasury securities.
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The algorithm then trawls through Tesco's purchasing data to see what other products (staples such as milk and bread aside) tend to wind up in the same shopping baskets as ostrich burgers do.
That nickname has accrued to I-95, a highway running along America's east coast from Miami all the way to Maine, which gun traffickers have long used to haul guns bought in southern states with relatively lax purchasing laws to sell in north-eastern states such as New York and New Jersey, which more strongly regulate gun sales.
Procurement or purchasing managers: Well-acquainted with online procurement offerings such as Coupa.
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Specifically, the company purchasing a PPC campaign pays the advertising publisher every time an advertisement, such as a text link or banner, receives a click.
An environment such as this puts investors in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between preservation of capital and preservation of purchasing power.
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With mergers and scale come problems such as duplication (two chief executives and treasuries, say), more bureaucratic decision-making and unco-ordinated purchasing (of, for instance, reinsurance) by different parts of the business.
But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
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