a r t i c l e i n f o This paper aims to investigate the effects of supplier collaboration on the firm innovation performance as well as the enabling characteristics of the purchasing function. This is an original contribution as few papers empirically test the effect of supplier collaboration (meant as supplier involvement, development, and integration) on innovation performance and — simultan...

Green supplier selection is an important part of green supply chain management. To improve the validity and reliability of green supplier selection, this paper constructed a model based on the improved intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS. Firstly, the concepts of intuitionistic fuzzy set and intuitionistic fuzzy number were given, and a series of algorithms and aggregation operators were defined; on th...

As a key to a firm’s success, effective supply chain management practices have received enormous attention from both academics and practitioners. Especially, a shift in a paradigm of supplier-customer relationships from an “arm’s length” type of interaction to a “closer tie” relation in the manufacturing industry has been widely reported (Frazier et al. 1988; Heide and John 1990; The Economist ...

This paper presents a framework of buyer–supplier relationships used in an empirical study to investigate how the development of more collaborative relationships between UK retailers and freshproduce suppliers affects the financial performance of suppliers in such relationships. Relationships between key partnership characteristics and performance are discussed and empirically tested. In additi...

The purpose of this paper is to find out current supplier development practices employed by different organization. Paper mainly focuses on supplier development, supplier development activities, programs, critical elements and beneficial move by buyer. Importance of relationship development and factors responsible for it long with current gaps in this field is discussed in brief.

Supplier evaluation and selection are critical decision making processes that require consideration of a variety of attributes. Several studies have been performed for effective evaluation and selection of suppliers by utilizing several techniques such as linear weighting methods, mathematical programming models, statistical methods and AI based techniques. One of the successful evaluation meth...

Supplier evaluation and selection is an important group decision making problem that involves not only quantitative criteria but also qualitative factors incorporating vagueness and imprecision. This paper proposes a novel fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making framework for supplier selection integrating quality function deployment (QFD) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The proposed me...

performance evaluation is one of the most important management agendas as key to achieving continuous improvement in the ability to evaluate the ongoing performance of the organization. many organizations have realized the importance of ongoing evaluation of performance and performance appraisal systems employ a variety of organizations. in this regard between 1850 and 1975, only on the basis o...

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help measure objectives critical to business sustainability. This research takes place in a toy factory’s injection moulding department that has yet develop indicators for subcontractor performance. Poor performance significantly impacts the production. In last three months, delivered quantity exceeded target by 27%, delivery time consistency is only 78%, there...