A new approach to multi-attribute e-procurement

With the development of Internet, e-commerce becomes a new business mode and plays an important role in production and management in an enterprise. In supply chain suppliers, companies often try to negotiate contracts based on different attributes like delivery date, quality, and mode of delivery. Especially for many situations in the b2b area there are other important attributes apart from price to be considered for decision-making. Therefore the area of multi-attribute auction gains more and more attention in the scientific community as well as manufactory. This paper mainly introduces the multi-attribute auction mechanism and then solves the problem of winner-determination.