Research on supplier satisfaction in buyer–supplier relationships has been primarily conceptual. One purpose of the research described in this paper is to empirically test the influences of supply chain power on supplier satisfaction. Exploration of the effects of power on factors of supplier satisfaction will provide the key to understanding the power-satisfaction link in supply chain relation...

Efficiency and effectiveness of the organization is result ofmanagement performance and supply chain structure.Today, several factors in selection the supplier or the best combination of suppliers have been identified that this issue would increase the complexity of suplier selecting.This study investigates the application of Fuzzy Delphi in order to identify the important factors in selecting ...

Supplier involvement is touted as enhancing a firm’s competitive edge, but its linkage with specific dimensions of manufacturing flexibility (e.g., volume flexibility) has not been established. This study investigates the relationship between supplier involvement, manufacturing flexibility, and business performance in the motherboard industry. Using data collected from 105 manufacturing firms, ...

Evaluation of Performance Measures for Materials Management Process in Industrial Construction Projects. By. MOHAMMED KASHIF UL ASAD. A Thesis. with evaluating characteristics that are deemed necessary for a supplier to provide a. materials management process have been examined. logistics, performance indicators. total project costs (Construction Industry Institute, 1987). Excellence in Project...

With increased worldwide awareness of environmental protection, green supply chain management (GSCM) has received much attention from both researchers and practitioners over the past decade. Traditionally, organizations have considered criteria such as cost, quality, and delivery to evaluate the performance of their suppliers. Although there is an abundance of studies considering the convention...

(2014) New product development in an emerging economy: analysing the role of supplier involvement practices by using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo technique. The research question is whether the positive relationship found between supplier involvement practices and new product development performances in developed economies also holds in emerging economies. The role of supplier involvement ...

Selecting suppliers is a multi-criteria decision-making problem involving both qualitative and quantitative factors. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-criteria approach that aids to select suppliers based on two interrelated inputs: overall system performance and supplier performance. With this model, enterprises that are collaborating will have a tool to select suppliers not only bas...

This research examines the relationship between antecedents of supplier integration and supply management performance. A conceptual model has been developed based on the literature on strategic supply management skills, supplier integration, the perceived status of supply management, and supply management performance. To test the model a survey interview was conducted to obtain primary data fro...

Purpose This study investigates the impact of a buyer-assisted quality intervention on suppliers' performance and buyer–supplier relational dynamics in garment industry. Design/methodology/approach employed multiple-embedded case following qualitative research approach. The used data from interventions sewing lines four supplier factories. Qualitative were collected through semi-structured inte...

The aim of this study was to provide an analytical tool to evaluate and select the best supplier(s)/vendor(s) in fuzzy environment for Television (TV) manufacturing organization. A hierarchy through which decision makers can bring about a comparison among the suppliers was worked out and software for the same was developed. The methodology for selection was based upon multiple criteria decision...