Businesses are opting for automated purchasing and reverse auctions where all that matters is price.

Need a fully automated purchasing system?

From 1987 to 1990, Mrs. Valin was responsible for applications development, including the House's first automated purchasing system.

It may look like CPM rates are fixed -- and they are if you use their automated purchasing system.

Some regions do most of their purchasing manually; others make limited use of TAPS; and, another has developed its own automated purchasing system.

Automated purchasing - electronic data interchange (EDI) for ordering and electronic funds transfer (EFT) for supplier payment.

TAPS; Transaction-Based Automated Purchasing System Système intégré de traitement des achats (n.m.); SITA (n.m.)

• Transactional-based Automated Purchasing System (TAPS) TIMS, AMAX, a commercial set of systems provided by ASI Inc.

Model One - Fully automated purchasing system: Firstpage can design and implement an online database of your goods, allowing site visitors to browse your inventory, purchasing products by adding them to the equivalent of an electronic shopping cart.

• Transactional-based Automated Purchasing System (TAPS) TIMS, AMAX Asset and Materiel Management Information System (AMMIS)

It costs the school system $750,000 a year to provide a staff for the warehouse, the office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation found, and last year he recommended that the school system use a new automated purchasing system that would mean schools would directly receive all supplies ordered.