Problem definition: Fast recovery from sourcing interruptions is a key objective for global supply chains and business continuity professionals. In this paper, we study the impact of different chain strategies—supplier diversification use long-term relationships—on ability to recover interruptions. Academic/practical relevance: Improving chains’ has been an important focus area both practitione...

Collaborative sourcing is defined as a group of organisations combining on the demand side as part of the outsourcing process. Based upon a synthesis of the outsourcing and collaboration literatures, this paper seeks to examine both the benefits of collaborative sourcing and the options available. A series of case studies identifies that a number of alternative collaborative sourcing modes are ...

Determining the optimum number of suppliers and the optimum quantities to order from each of them is a critical problem for any supply chain. This paper has mathematically arrived at conditions to identify the appropriate sourcing strategy in a multi-period scenario for a stochastic supply and a stochastic demand environment. It has also obtained the total order quantity, optimum number of supp...

Innovation events the introduction of new products or processes represent the end of a process of knowledge sourcing and transformation. They also represent the beginning of a process of exploitation which may result in an improvement in the performance of the innovating business. This recursive process of knowledge sourcing, transformation and exploitation we call the innovation value chain. M...

The dynamic sourcing of Open Corpus Learning Content is a complex and resource intensive process. However, modern technologies and methods can facilitate an efficient content identification and acquisition process. Several bodies of research have begun investigating the application of modern technologies to problems in this area, such as automatic semantic tagging of content, however none have ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance outcomes of strategic sourcing, specifically examining how strategic sourcing affects buyer‐supplier relationship, supplier evaluation, and sourcing performance from the buying firm's perspective in the context of the US textile and apparel industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study provides an empirical investigation of ...

Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad D. Abdulrahman & Shams Rahman To cite this article: Nachiappan Subramanian, Muhammad D. Abdulrahman & Shams Rahman (2014) Sourcing complexity factors on contractual relationship: Chinese suppliers’ perspective, Production & Manufacturing Research, 2:1, 558-585 To link to this...

This paper calls for awareness of the risks in global sourcing of IT and IT-enabled services. It calls for appropriate assessment and mitigation of these risks. The authors identify ways in which global sourcing (often called offshoring) increases information security exposures and recommends strategies for managing such risks.