the nature of the products or services being procured

Key areas for many developing countries are product standards and the domestic services sector.

The more sophisticated a product or service is, the more its national identity tends to disappear.

Family production was not only limited to agricultural products but they also produced manufacturing goods and provided services.

Because of an overwhelming variety of products and services on the market, those that stand out in some manner are better noticed by consumers.

A request for tenders (RFT) is a formal, structured invitation to suppliers, to bid, to supply products or services.

Within the current broad structure of the Central Product Classification, ICT, information, health and other services products have been elaborated.

The sector specific services are intended to meet the requirements of the food and non food agricultural processing industries.

A business model is defined as the organization of product, service and information flows, and the source of revenues and benefits for suppliers and customers.

Marketing or product differentiation is the process of describing the differences between products or services, or the resulting list of differences.

TQM is based on all members of an organization participating in improving processes, products, services and the culture in which they work.

Line Management is a business term to describe the administration of activities that contribute directly to the output of products or services.

These services comprise post harvest systems in the food sector, fibre processing, product innovation and diversification for enhanced market access, and enhancing rural community livelihood through efficient agro supply chains.

In order to market their tourism products efficiently, destination and tourism providers should keep abreast of technological developments and standards.

OFDI also leads to better product service quality and greater technological edge.

According to the popular business writer Daniel Pink, giving meaning or sense to a product or a service is increasingly becoming the main source of added value.

While considerable resources are being invested by tourism providers in developed countries to design user friendly DMSs offering various functionalities (e.g. online booking systems and customer relationship management), developing countries have so far mainly developed simple e tourism websites offering information that could satisfy consumer expectations in travel planning but do not offer secure booking or payment facilities.

Non traditional banking services provided by the FWBL include advisory and consultancy services relating to investment and project identification, identification and development of markets, promotion and sponsoring of work of female entrepreneurs and product display centres for female entrepreneurs.

In turn, this can spur sustainable non farm employment growth in services, agro processing, and small scale manufacturing.

An efficient supply side response to this large and growing source of demand requires regulatory reform in many services, including finance, product safety, transport, and logistics.

The UNDP provides assistance to SMEs and supports grass roots initiatives in all sectors of production and transformation, service provision, and trade.

This is particularly possible in cases of infrastructure and utilities development projects, where the provision of the products and or services in question gives rise to a natural monopoly.

These dynamic giants terrify the wealthy populations of the industrialized world with the potential power of their low cost competition, cheap products, and outsourcing of services.

Petroleum products

Marketing is communicating the value of a product, service or brand to customers, for the purpose of promoting or selling that product, service, or brand.

Finished products are subdivided into two basic types flat and long products.

Other key market access areas are so called product exclusions (the fact that the distribution of certain products is sometimes excluded from commitments), for example as regards alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical or certain agricultural (raw) products.

Meanwhile, online activists have started a campaign to boycott Chinese products in retaliation against the Chinese veto.

product quality control

product quality control

Print products

The total number of products sold in all lines is referred to as length of product mix .

ISO 9002 1987 Model for quality assurance in production, installation, and servicing had basically the same material as ISO 9001 but without covering the creation of new products.

Outputs are also defined as service improvements or products provided to an end user outside of the support account structure instead of services or products delivered among organizational units of the support account.

Bioproducts or bio based products are materials, chemicals and energy derived from renewable biological resources.

In marketing, product bundling is offering several products for sale as one combined product.

According to the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), the purpose of APQP is to produce a product quality plan which will support development of a product or service that will satisfy the customer.

8110 Product characteristics requirements

Products or masses of goods

Smallholders are particularly hard hit by EurepGAP requirements, and many of them will be forced to turn to local (increasingly informal) markets instead of exporting.

But jugaad is not about pirating products or making cheap imitations of global brands.

Business units Sony offers a number of products in a variety of product lines around the world.

As low quality products sell at the same price as high quality products, the latter disappear from the market.

UNCTAD defines EPPs as products that cause significantly less environmental harm at some stage of their life cycle than alternative products that serve the same purpose.

The things are coming out at a faster pace.