Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is an application that gives support to a company in the task of deciding which supplier to choose when a new supply has to be ordered. It is based on a measure of trust and provides several tools that visualize that measure and support its use on decision making.

In today’s accelerating world economy, the drive to continually cut costs and focus on core competencies has driven many to outsource some or all of their production. In this environment, improving supply chain execution and leveraging the supply base through effective supplier relationship management (SRM) has become more critical than ever in achieving competitive advantage. It was found that...

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Increasingly, buyers are turning to the use of online, reverse auctions in their negotiation activities with suppliers. How does the use of these price competition mechanisms impact buyer-supplier relationships? We consider this question in the context of a quasi-experiment involving six reverse auctions conducted in the supply base of a major industrial buyer. The results indicate that online,...

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We develop a new theory of supplier diversification based on buyer risk. When suppliers are subject to the risk of buyer default, buyers may take costly action to signal creditworthiness so as to obtain more favorable terms. But once signaling costs are sunk, buyers sourcing from a single supplier become vulnerable to future holdup. Although ex ante supply base diversification can be effective ...

Femto-cells deployment in today’s cellular networks came into practice to fulfill the increasing demand for data services. It also extends the coverage in the indoor areas. However, interference to other femto and macro-cells users remains an unresolved challenge. In this paper, we propose an interference mitigation scheme to control the cross-tier interference caused by femto-cells to the macr...

Enterprises are full of all kinds of data. But they lack of high-level valid data resource. It is difficult to access the upstream sources of operational data, and is very complicated to collect all the needed information and to integrate and aggregate. This paper presents an Enterprise Multiple-tier Distributed Data Processing Architecture (EMDDPA) to support enterprise data resource shared an...