Problems in Industrial Purchasing

Problems of Industrial Health in India

Alliances in Industrial Purchasing: The Determinants of Joint Action in Buyer- Supplier Relationships

Recent trends in industrial markets indicate that buyers and sellers are increasingly supplanting conventional "arm's length" arrangements with "alliances" involving closer ties. The authors develop a theoretical model of industrial buyer-supplier ties that presents ioint action as a key aspect of closeness. Whereas conventional ties emphasize a clearly defined division of labor, these newer re...

Real-life Problems and Industrial Statistics

1. Introduction Modern quality theory started in the Twenties when mass production was introduced in industry. In its development three phases can be distinguished, which can be characterized by: Quality by Inspection, Quality by Process Control and Quality by Design. In this paper we give a survey of the research which was initiated by consultancy projects in Dutch industry. In the examples st...

Using SAT Solvers for Industrial Combinatorial Problems

SAT solving is the task of checking whether a given propositional logic formula has a solution, i. e., if there exists an assignment to all Boolean variables s. t. the whole formula is satis ed. As a lot of problems can be easily encoded into propositional logic, SAT solving is a general purpose approach which can be used in many di erent areas. In this thesis we consider the application of SAT...

Quality Management in Purchasing

Olga Anisimova Quality Management in Purchasing, 52 pages, 1 appendix Saimaa University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Business Administration, Lappeenranta Degree Programme in International Business Thesis 2014 Instructor: Senior Lecturer, Leena Laari-Muinonen, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences The implementation of quality management by the companies is one of the last tendencies towards ...