18 Critical Success Factors for Supplier Development and Buyer Supplier Relationship: Exploratory Factor Analysis Joshi P. Sarang, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India H V Bhasin, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India Rakesh Verma, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India Manoj Govind Kharat, National Institute of Industrial Engine...

The deficiencies in previous quantitative models for buyer–supplier coordination in a just-in-time (JIT) environment are corrected. An expanded model incorporating additional factors is developed and the factors are ranked through a detailed numerical analysis. Factor ranks are then compared with results of a series of semi-formal interviews with supplier and purchasing representatives. Publish...

FX&MM MAY ISSUE 2010 To subscribe online visit: www.fx-mm.com REVERSE FACTORING – BENEFITS FOR ALL A growing number of transaction banks are implementing supplier finance programmes for their large credit-worthy customers who wish to support their supply chain partners. Reverse factoring is the most popular model, enabling banks to provide suppliers with finance at a lower cost than they would ...

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 ...

This paper finds an optimal mechanism for selling a good to a buyer who may be budget-constrained. We consider a seller with one unit of a good facing a buyer with a quasilinear utility function. If the buyer does not face a binding budget constraint, textbook monopoly pricing is optimal. By contrast, the possibility of a binding budget constraint can make it optimal for the seller to use nonli...

Reverse factoring—a financial arrangement where a corporation facilitates early payment of its trade credit obligations to suppliers—is increasingly popular in industry. Many firms use the scheme to induce their suppliers to grant them more lenient payment terms. By means of a periodic review base stock model that includes alternative sources of financing, we explore the following question: wha...

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...

A supply chain consisting of a single-supplier and a single-buyer is modeled and compared in two different modes: non-coordinated and coordinated. The model is established based on the fact that the demand is uncertain and shortages are considered as lost sales. The buyer’s order lead time is a nonlinear function of the buyer’s order size and the number of shipments from the supplier. Quantity ...

Exogenous demand assumptions provide accurate results at the retail level. As we go in the supply chain, the orders of the buyers get more complicated. The orders are influenced by both the decisions of the supplier and the costs of the buyer’s operations. Therefore, it is critical for a supplier to understand the ordering behavior of a buyer in order to manage her operations. We consider a two...