Supplier Assessment with Gray Relationship Analysis Method

Conceptualizing Supplier Relationship Management

Purpose of the paper and literature addressed: This paper aims to conceptualize supplier relationship management (SRM). It provides an overview of the objectives of SRM from the perspective of a buying company and proposes the structure of the required capabilities of the firm to obtain these objectives. The paper aggregates the previous studies on buyer-supplier relationships and participates ...

Analysis of Current Supplier Relationship Management Practices: A Solution Proposal

Linking supplier development to supplier segmentation using Best Worst Method

The strategic supplier-related activity of supplier segmentation focuses on the evaluation of suppliers, identifying different approaches, identifying the most suitable criteria and proper methods to segment the suppliers. The main aim of the evaluation of suppliers is to form different groups from the selected suppliers to create different supplier management strategies for segments involved. ...

Supplier Relationship Management in Health Care

The effects of globalization, fragmentation of markets and new technological advancement, for example in data transmission and processing, has an immense impact on the value chains of highly competitive industries (OECD, 2007). Despite enormous investments in innovation and the magnitude of opportunities for innovators in health care, one has not seen a fundamental change yet (Herzlinger, 2006)...

Relationship performance dimensions of buyer–supplier exchanges

Whilst there is much research material on buyer and supplier performance assessment and management, a relationship perspective can bring an added dimension, especially to the performance of close, mutual relationships. This article aims to bring a relationship performance understanding to the study of buyer–supplier exchange. Unfortunately, business-to-business relationships are assumed to enha...