Abstract Electric power market competition is intense. The competition between the various power plants will is the contest of economic efficiency as the core. Fuel cost is the center link of production management and economic accounting in thermal power plant, so selection management of the coal-fired supplier has great significance for the development of thermal power enterprise and improveme...

This paper examines the ISO 9001\2 requirement that the capability of a supplier to supplier product or service should be assessed. In practice the development of a preferred supplier list is driven by qualitative rather than quantitative factors of supplier capability. In the field of software considerable progress has been made towards developing models which when applied yield quantitative m...

A Supply chain management (SCM) adopts a systematic and integrative approach to managing the operations and relationships among different parties in supply chains. To implement SCM successfully involves a lot of issues. One of the major issues is supplier development. On the other hand, studies have investigated how quality management can be employed in SCM to improve the performance of ...

Many studies list the customer-supplier -relationship related issues among the most important reasons for software project failures. Today most of the software development is done outside the organization actually using the software, so the organizational interface of customer and supplier is something that we just need to live with. Since it is not possible, or desirable, to eliminate this int...

Software development contracts often lead to disputes between the software service supplier and the client commissioning the development. A chief cause of the disputes is the cost of the software development exceeding initial estimates. Software development pricing is based on a ‘fee per unit’ basis. This paper examines 3 key ‘fee per unit’ pricing approaches Time and Materials, Fixed Price for...

Supplier selection plays a vital role in the process of product development. The purpose of this research is to integrate the state of the art Web technologies with business theories to establish a Web-based distributed environment for supplier selection. A Web Services-oriented multipossibility supplier selection system has been developed, which helps manufacturers to make decisions for select...

The impact of supply chain integration on new product development has been very well studied in literature. However, little literature examines the relationship between supplier integration and customer integration when they influence new product performance. This study aims to explore the complicated relationships among supplier integration, customer integration and new product performance via...

Objectives of the Study Today the green supply chain management (GSCM) is gaining increasing interest and awareness by companies not only as a source of cost saving, but also as a competitive advantage obtained by efficiency improvement. Together with the pressure from various stakeholders like customer and government, companies are becoming more environmentally friendly. In China, how to balan...

The increasingly competitive markets of the 1990s are generally perceived to be demanding higher-quality and higher-performing products, in shorter and more predictable development cycle-times, and at lower cost. Product development must therefore increasingly be managed as a concurrent, multi-disciplinary process. In terms of the manufacturing function and suppliers this is re#ected in recomme...