Buyer-backed purchase-order financing for SME supplier with uncertain yield

Providing a Model for Financing the Buyer and Supplier in the Supply Chain of Mehrvarzan Healthcare Products Distributor

The present study aims to provide a model for financing buyer-supplier in Mehrvarzan healthcare Company. The statistical population of the study includes 300 employees of the company. According to Morgan table, 168 people are selected as the statistical sample. Available non-random sampling method has been used. For collecting the required information, the standard buyer-supplier financing ques...

The Design of Intelligent Agents for Buyer-Supplier-Supplier Coordination

Buyer power and supplier incentives

This paper investigates how the formation of larger buyers affects a supplier’s profits and, by doing so, his incentives to undertake non-contractible activities. We first identify two channels of buyer power, which allows larger buyers to obtain discounts. We subsequently examine the effects of buyer power on the supplier’s incentives and on social welfare. Contrary to some informal claims in ...

Supplier Diversification under Buyer Risk

We develop a new theory of supplier diversification based on buyer risk. When suppliers are subject to the risk of buyer default, buyers may take costly action to signal creditworthiness so as to obtain more favorable terms. But once signaling costs are sunk, buyers sourcing from a single supplier become vulnerable to future holdup. Although ex ante supply base diversification can be effective ...

A Model for Selecting Buyer-supplier Relationships

This paper proposes a new method for selecting appropriate buyer-supplier relationships (BSR) for specific projects. Because it is almost impossible in reality to establish mathematical relationships between the BSR attributes and the factors of a project, the concept of relationship indices (RI) is introduced to quantify such BS relationships which are in turn established through design of exp...