Manufacturing enterprises face enormous competitive pressures in today’s business environment and to make full use of inside and outside resources in a competitive globalization market, many manufacturers and service providers are seeking a strategic cooperation with suitable vendors to improve their supply chain management (SCM) so that they can concentrate their efforts on their own core busi...

The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2002 is an independently administered technology evaluation of mature face recognition systems. FRVT 2002 provides performance measures for assessing the capability of face recognition systems to meet requirements for large-scale, real-world applications. Participation in FRVT 2002 was open to commercial and mature prototype systems from universities, res...

INTRODUCTION: The first steps towards Parallel Imaging were made from 1987 on [1]-[5]. Since the introduction of the first clinical examples with SMASH and SENSE by Sodickson [6] and Pruessman [8] it still took several years until the first vendor implementations for Parallel Imaging came up. Siemens introduced the integrated Parallel Acquisition Techniques (iPAT) for the MAGNETOM Sonata, Symph...

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is a supply-chain initiative in which the vendor is authorized to manage inventories of agreed upon stock-keeping-units at retail locations. In this paper, a modified joint inventory policy is introduced for VMI systems where the vendor takes a standard (s, S) policy and the retailers utilize can-order policies. Under the regime of a can-order policy, each retaile...

This paper aims to enable the decision maker of an integrated vendor–buyer system, under Consignment Stock (CS) policy, to make the optimal/sub-optimal production/replenishment decisions where the buyer places a space limitation to the vendor and the lead-time is controllable with an extra investment. Within any production cycle, the vendor produces at a finite rate and ships the outputs to the...

We examine the commitment problem faced by a software vendor in ending critical support, in the presence of network security risks. When releasing a new version of a product, in order to drive up its demand, the vendor must cease supporting the old version. However, the vendor’s ability to leverage the increased demand can be limited because of a commitment problem. For, when the demand increas...

In response to the increasing competition, organizations are working towards cost cutting, especially in the areas of procurement, plant operations and primary distribution. In order to reduce costs, managing vendor relationship is critical. The philosophy of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) addressed interactions with the third party participation in a supply chain with the aim of improv...

This study identifies a list of constructs from popular literature to measure offshore vendor capabilities for an outsourced IT project. A pilot study was conducted with a scenario description of an actual offshore software project. Factor analytic techniques were employed on to elicit eight constructs to measure vendor capabilities. Validity and reliability data for the measure are reported.