T This paper analyzes different pricing strategies in a two-echelon supply chain including one supplier and two retailers. The supplier and the retailers face random yield and random demand, respectively. Moreover, coordination or non-coordination of retailers in receiving the discount is investigated. Game theory is used to model and analyze the problems. The supplier as a leader of Stackelbe...

A growing number of companies are outsourcing their purchasing processes to independent purchasing agencies. These agencies now have to process an ever increasing number of purchase requests each day. The conventional methods of selecting the right suppliers for the purchase requests incur heavy human and time costs. We have designed and implemented BestChoice, a decision support system for sup...

The paper presents the process of the selection of a potential supplier, which have to be the most appropriate to stakeholders. The selection is based on a set of criteria: Delivery Price, Financial Position, Production Specifications, Standards and Relevant Certificates, Commercial Strength, and the Performance of supplier, etc. The criteria for evaluation and their importance are selected by ...

This paper examines the relationships between supplier development efforts and buyer competitive advantage from the buyer’s perspective, and seeks to understand how specific supplier development efforts may impact on a buyer’s operational performance. We conducted a survey of 142 electronics manufacturing companies in Hong Kong, and applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to test a structura...

supplier selection is one of the most important activities of purchasing departments. this importance is increased even more by new strategies in a supply chain, because of the key role suppliers perform in terms of quality, costs and services which affect the outcome in the buyer’s company. supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making problem in which the objectives are not equall...

This thesis addresses the challenges of improving the quality of parts received from suppliers at Waters, an analytical instrument manufacturing company. Preliminary analysis identified improvement opportunities at evaluation of supplier's capability, agreement on requirements with suppliers at early supplier selection stage as well as closed loop supplier management. A 4-step sequential proces...

Supplier selection played a role in developing industry performance. It was one of the critical issues supply chain management. This study illustrated applying decision-making procedure for supplier on KUD Dau Batu by ANP and fuzzy TOPSIS. Four suppliers (Princi, Gading Kulon, Petung Sewu, Kucur) thought qualified procuring milk. The first step determined weight criteria sub-criteria that impac...

As the most important responsibility of purchasing management, the problem of supplier evaluation and selection has always received a great deal of attention from practitioners and researchers. This management decision is a challenge due to the complexity and various criteria involved. Many methods based on data envelopment analysis(DEA) emerged, especially the cross efficiency. But it exists s...

The aim of this research project is the evaluation of performance in buyer-supplier relationships through the measurement of intensity and effectiveness of information flows occurring between two or more actors involved in a supply chain. It is grounded in the assumption that gradual increments of the information sharing produce positive increase in the local and global performance of the suppl...

In this study, a two-echelon supplier-manufacturer system with finite production rate and lead time is proposed. It is assumed that shortage is not permitted and the lot size of manufacturer (second echelon) is m-factors of the lot size of supplier (first echelon) and supplier can supply the manufacturer’s lot size in several shipments in each cyc...