This paper studies the influence of two properties of interdependence –magnitude and relative asymmetryon the buyer’s control on its supplier. Four dimensions of control are examined: the objects of the control (results, working processes, behaviours and supplier characteristics), the means of the control (market, organisation, social control), the influence strategies (more or less coercive), ...

this paper provides an analytical framework for an Agri-food supply chain (ASC) network that consists of the farmers' group and/or cooperative (FGC) as a supplier of vegetables, modern retailers (MR), and end customers. In this network, FGC cannot supply vegetables direct to MR because they cannot fulfill the requirements as a qualified supplier. However, MR needs FGC as a supplier to shorten A...

In a highly competitive scenario, suppliers play a vital role in making a business organization successful. Business of any organization is continuous process and therefore the supplier selection is also dynamic in nature. This is quite natural as the organization’s demand; supplier’s capacity, quality level, lead time, unit part cost and fixed transportation cost of supplier varies with time. ...

Over the past two decades, the automotive industry has experienced major changes as a result of globalisation, changing customer requirements and environmental legislation. The supplier integration in the new product development process is a significant step in facilitating reduction in the time to market of innovations and reducing costs. The aim of this work is to assess the extent of supplie...

This paper presents the findings of a study with a Unilever bottle-filling plant and its key bottle supplier, ALPLA. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the complexity associated with before and after integration. The nature of the complexity alters as the supplier-customer relationship changes, in this case from pre-integration to post-integration system. The areas in which complexity ...

Various supplier networks consist of many different types of interorganizational relationships. The coordination and evaluation of these kinds of networks is becoming more challenging as the importance and relative power of a single supplier increases due to the centralization of purchases. The main objective of this study is to measure mutual interorganizational trust in the supplier relations...

Supplier selection negotiation is a challenged, complex, and nondeterministic problem. To solve the problem well, it is necessary to develop an intelligent system for negotiation support in supplier selection process. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful algorithm which can be used for the price offer in supplier selection negotiation with the aim of maximizing the demander’s profits. In t...

Supplier selection is an important problem in supply chain management (SCM), and has attracted the attention of many researchers. Tremendous effort has been spent on the development of agent-based systems to automate supplier selection negotiation process in SCM applications. In this kind of multiagent system (MAS), software agents are established to represent various parties and functions invo...

This research considers a supply chain under the following conditions: (i) two heterogeneous suppliers are in competition, (ii) supply capacity is random and pricing is endogenous, (iii) consumer demand, with and without an intermediate retailer, is price dependent. Specifically, we examine how uncertainty in supply capacity affects optimal ordering and pricing decisions, supplier and retailer ...

This paper will discuss determinants of supplier selection and evaluation, their impact on business key performance indicators with a focus on telecom companies. This research is causal by nature. Interviews were conducted from the heads, managers and specialists of the supply chain department. Data was gathered through questionnaire distributed among the practitioners. Different statistical to...