As manufacturing firms increasingly realize that supplier performance is crucial to their establishing and maintaining competitive advantage, supplier development has been a subject of considerable research in supply chain management. We develop and test a path model to explore how supplier development practices affect buyer–supplier performance from the buying firm’s perspective in the context...

The relationship between the manufacturer and supplier has changed from one of competition into that of greater cooperation during recent years. The selection and evaluation of suppliers are primary and important issues when an enterprise implements Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and Total Quality Management (TQM). Much research indicates that most enterprises tend to evaluate their sup...

The dynamic business environment today requires organizations to effectively use all available resources to remain competitive. The quality and cost of a product or service offered in the market is a function, not only of the capabilities of the firm, but also the supplier network providing inputs to the enterprise. To remain competitive, organizations are increasingly implementing supplier dev...

supplier evaluation and selection is important in supply chain management. this is a typical multiple criteria decision making that consists of both quantitative and qualitative factors. ahp is a proper approach to aid this decision making problem, because of its inherent capacity to handle qualitative and quantitative criteria, but when criteria are dependent this method is not so good. also t...

Taking into account the supplier involvement in the new product development (NPD), this article focuses on the synthesis evaluation, and selection of the part design scheme in part deployment process. The concepts of performance indicator (PI) and integrated performance indicators (IPI) are introduced to measure the performance of the part design scheme and product design scheme respectively. A...

This study investigates the relationships between U.S. buying firms’ supplier development efforts, commitment, social capital accumulation with key suppliers, and buying firm performance. We identify linkages between supply chain management research on supplier development and organization theory research on social capital to consider how buying firm commitment to a long-term relationship, cogn...

This paper will discuss determinants of supplier selection and evaluation, their impact on business key performance indicators with a focus on telecom companies. This research is causal by nature. Interviews were conducted from the heads, managers and specialists of the supply chain department. Data was gathered through questionnaire distributed among the practitioners. Different statistical to...