  It is well known that rightly applied reverse auctions offer big commercial
potential to procurement departments. However, the sheer number of auction
types often overwhelms users in practice. And since the implications of a
wrongly chosen auction type are equally well known, the overall usage of
reverse auctions lacks its potential significantly. In this paper, a novel
method is being proposed that guides the user in selecting the right
combination of basic auction forms for single lot events, considering both
market-, as well as supplier-related, bijective criteria.
