Managing suppliers

The study thus demonstrates that an untapped opportunity exists for future research in supply chain risk management, which would develop an integrated framework for risk management in strategic sourcing in Africa.

17p longtimenosee10 26-04-2024 12 8   Download

Supplier selection criteria are of importance in supplier selection because of their impact on the input materials and production progress of purchasers. However, there is a dearth of researches on a well-designed and validated questionnaire, from which practitioners or researchers are able to execute an official survey in large scope to assess supplier selection criteria for textile and apparel sector in general and for Vietnamese textile and apparel industry in particular.

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Previous research suggests that the inconsistent results about the relationship between supplier chain integration and performance are due to incomplete and inappropriate conceptualization of supply chain integration dimensions. Therefore, since the resource-based view has been recognized as the most suitable framework to understand these capabilities, we identify and examine routines bundles that make up them. This paper contributes to expand the organizational routines research and provide theoretical guideline for future research in the supply chain management field.

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This research is a single case study of the impact of the introduction of both information technology (software, hardware and Internet) and a company policy about IT use on the internal operations of a fire truck assembly company and its supply chain relationships. Using Action Research, the research focuses on a fire truck assembly company in Thailand, where supply chain efficiency was not improving and where costs of, and relationships with, both upstream suppliers and downstream clients in the supply chain were increasing.

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This study addresses the question: “How do small and medium Asian grocery retailers (SMAGRs) manage their relationships with suppliers in relation to their power positions under different circumstances?” Using the Kraljic matrix as its analytical base, this study incorporates power relations, in addition to the strategic importance and supply risks of the items purchased, as a third dimension to examine the relationship management strategies SMAGRs used to deal with different suppliers.

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The research "Thesis for the degree of Master of Doctor of Philosophy: E-procurement as an instrument in improving public procurement processes: A Bangladesh perspective" reiterates that commitment and ownership by sector-level public organisations, internalisation of the reform, and e-readiness, which includes responsive roles of suppliers and contractors, are the critical factors for successful adoption of eProcurement in Bangladesh.

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This paper examines the impact of supplier relationship management on the operational performance of firms. The data was collected from 304 manufacturing plants in 4 Asian countries in the period 2013-2015. The results of statistical descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis indicate that supplier relationship management has a positive relationship with operational performance.

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Raw materials management can be defined as the function of business that is responsible for the coordination of planning, sourcing, purchasing, moving, storing and controlling raw materials in an optimum manner so as to provide services to customers at a minimum cost. Raw materials management enables companies to coordinate raw materials-related activities and control total raw materials costs through integrated systems. The raw materials management has the duties as follows: Purchasing; Selecting supplier; Valuation process; Reception process; Technical evaluation; Trade evaluation.

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In this paper, a mathematical model for multi-product inventory management in a three-tier supply chain consisting of multi-supplier, a manufacturer, and several retailers is presented.

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This paper examines the effect of supply chain on performance indicators including sales growth and market value in the context of manufacturing firms in Kuwait.

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The present study highlights “Innovation and technology” and “Information exchange” as the most significant factors with high influential power for the BSR. This study aims to aid the decision makers (buyer or supplier) in evolving effective business strategies.

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which the Intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning (I-ERP) System can be used in company operations. Machine learning is embedded in a decision tree algorithm to demonstrate the viability of intelligent technology in an ERP system and to enhance the quality of operations through an I-ERP system.

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This paper purposes a comprehensive multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) to select the best potential supplier for VMI collaboration in healthcare organization.

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The main concern of the current empirical research is to examine the role of management accounting techniques in determining the relationship between purchasing and supplier management in the retail sector of Kazakhstan, which during the last four years, has grown significantly.

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This study employed a cross sectional research mode and designed a survey to collect data from poultry production units in Indonesia. Results reveal that due to suppliers’ involvement and integrating product modularity make a significant positive effect on poultry business performance.

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In the existing market, companies confront a fierce competition, so the need for new and efficient process for supply chain has become necessarily important. To this end, supply chain management among multi agent system is proposed for addressing the selection and evaluation process related to the inbound logistics.

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Đề tài tổng quan về quản lý mối quan hệ với nhà cung ứng (supplier relationship management-SRM); phân tích hoạt động SRM tại tổng công ty dung dịch khoan và hóa phẩm dầu khí - CTCP; một số giải pháp nâng cao chất lượng SRM của tổng công ty DMC. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo.

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(BQ) Chapter 10: Fundamentals of cost management. Upon completion of this chapter you should be able to: explain the concept of activity-based cost management; use the hierarchy of costs to manage costs; describe how the actions of customers and suppliers affect a firm’s costs; use activity-based costing methods to assess customer and supplier costs;...

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(BQ) Chapter 15: Transfer pricing. A common example of decentralized decision making occurs when business units (divisions) within the organization buy goods and services from one another and when each is treated as a profit center (i.e., when each unit manager is evaluated on reported unit profit). When such an exchange occurs, the accounting systems in the two divisions record the transaction as if it were an ordinary sale (purchase) to (from) an external customer (supplier).

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These three important and cutting-edge topics, which can all be viewed as part of supply-chain management, are brought together in a new chapter. In particular, e-commerce contributions to supplier and customer management are emphasised. New concepts that are covered in this chapter include enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, customer relationship management (CRM), and B2B (business-to-business) relationships.

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