Potential Pitfalls of E-Auctions  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sloan: Management Review vol. 43 no. 2 (2002), page 18.
Topik: auction; potential; pitfalls; e - auctions

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Fans of online reverse auctions, or e - auctions, can cite some big numbers - and some big names - to support their case. In 2001, for example, General Electric expected to generate more than $600 million in savings by putting $12 billion in contracts up for bid online. "The concept of reverse auctions was right in the GE sweet spot," legendary CEO Jack Welch told shareholders in his April 2001 farewell address. But those numbers don't tell the whole story, according to research by Sandy Jap, associate professor of marketing at Emory University's Goizueta Business School in Atlanta. As she reports in a July 2001 working paper titled "The Impact of Online Reverse Auctions on Buyer - Supplier Relationships," online reverse auctions can potentially hurt a buyer's long-term performance by sowing distrust among its suppliers. In a reverse auction, buyers and sellers swap their usual roles. The sellers compete for the opportunity to supply a product or service, and as bids come in, the price goes down. By putting these auctions online, buyers can streamline the process of collecting bids and deal with many sellers at once. That creates the potential for substantial savings by stimulating increased supplier competition. In order to understand the impact of the process, Jap analyzed six reverse online auctions, collectively involving $100 million in purchase contracts, which took place between fall 1999 and spring 2000. All the auctions were conducted on behalf of a single manufacturer of automotive components and involved direct inputs to production, such as semiconductors, plastics and electrical parts. Three of the auctions involved a single round of sealed bids, whereas three used the open - bid format, in which suppliers see their competitors' bids (but typically not their identities) and respond in real time. In both cases, the buyer reserved the right to award its business to any auction participant, not just the lowest bidder.

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