Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) plays an important role in the reduction of costs and the optimization of performance in industrial enterprises. Despite enormous investments in innovation, the health care sector has not experienced fundamental change yet. However, increased market dynamics and the implementation of economic principles will force health service providers to optimize cost ...

Supplier intelligence represents an important type of competitive intelligence essential to organizational strategic planning and analysis, because the moves that the suppliers of a firm make will affect the business network’s health, which in turn will impact the performance of the firm. Central to supplier intelligence is to identify who the suppliers of a focal firm and its competitors are. ...

Supplier relationship management (SRM) is the overall coordination, collaboration and information sharing between an organization its suppliers. The study focused on effect of supplier organizational performance for firms in plastic manufacturing industry Harare. This research adopted interpretivism philosophy data was collected using open-ended questionnaires telephonic interviews. population ...

The importance of buyer-supplier relations has been recognized by research as well as practice. Information sharing and knowledge exchange have been found to positively impact closer collaboration, increase transparency, and improve perceptions of trust between buyers and sellers. There is however, lesser research about IT as an enabler in the dynamics of buyer-seller relationship management. A...

The processes performed by strategic sourcing professionals have evolved beyond sourcing initiatives to include supplier relationship management and continuous category-based opportunity assessment. This comprehensive set of processes is best described as "Category Lifecycle Management" or CLM. Enterprises that understand and leverage CLM in its broadest sense will gain a strategic edge over th...

Introduction Supplier development and management systems of U.S. aircraft manufacturers have evolved rapidly during the 1990s in an environment of reduced military procurement and a worldwide slump in commercial aircraft sales. The result has been an ongoing restructuring within the aircraft industry supplier base, with significant implications for customer-supplier relationships and, potential...

Increased competition and market dynamics in healthcare have led to a stronger need for a strategy to amend customer relationships and for a clear understanding of how healthcare providers can improve their collaboration with key suppliers. Under the label of ‘supplier relationship management’, more research is conducted to study this phenomenon either on a social system or technical system per...

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...

Supplier relationship management is an important research field in Supply Chain Management. This paper aims to study the existing portfolio models for supplier relationship management then apply Svensson(2000)’s model to classify buyer-supplier relationship in an Iranian automotive industry supply chain. Finally present a framework for supplier relationship management. Data for this study was c...

With the change and globalization of the internal and external environments and the application of the information network technology, the internal and B2B business models of the domestic machinery industry have been completely changed, and such key factors as ‘Innovation’, ‘Speed’ and ‘Flexibility’ have become the key values of the future competition in the machinery industry with e-Business a...