Supplier sourcing strategies are a crucial factor driving supply chain success. In this paper, we investigate the implications of uncertain supplier reliability on a firm’s sourcing decisions in an environment with stochastic demand. In particular, we characterize specific conditions under which a firm should choose a single versus multiple supplier sourcing strategy. In an environment with bot...

In the everyday business world, the sourcing process of multiple goods and services usually involves complex negotiations (via telephone, fax, etc) that include discussion of product and service features. Nowadays, this is a high-cost process due to the scarce use of tools that streamline this negotiation process and assist purchasing managers’ decision-making. With the advent of Internet-based...

Sourcing decisions are a key factor in supply chain security. In this research the authors posit that there are multiple risk types involved in the sourcing decision, and develop a model framework for analyzing these risk components. Specifically, increasing the number of sources minimizes risk related to supply disruptions, but intensifies risk related to security failures. This paper, which i...

In this paper, we use qualitative methods to explore how social information technology (IT) sourcing organizations balance the paradoxical orientations of commerce and social upliftment. We apply the theory of organizational impression management to explore how such organizations meet the demands imposed by multiple audiences. The results of our study suggests that in managing the duality of th...

Strategic sourcing is critical for firms practicing the principles of supply chain management. strategic sourcing process pdf It specifically deals with managing the.Strategic Sourcing: Trends and Emerging Issues for Research. Strategic sourcing it will be useful to first understand the methodology and the steps adopted in.Strategic Sourcing Methodology. strategic sourcing process ppt Five core...

Companies recognize international sourcing as a business practice useful to reduce product prices, deal with supply shortages and identify new competitive suppliers. Effective international sourcing implies the integration and coordination of materials, processes, information flows and multiple producers at each buying location. Many companies do not have the capabilities or the willingness to ...

Motivated by the recent trend of onshoring/backshoring, this paper studies a two-stage sourcing game where competing firms may choose between sourcing internationally (call this efficient sourcing strategy due to low production cost) and sourcing domestically (call this responsive sourcing strategy due to short lead time). We first characterize the equilibrium of the sourcing game. Then we exam...

Little attention is given in the literature to decisions on the appropriate selection of suppliers, and on assigning order quantities to these suppliers, in the case of multiple sourcing, with multiple criteria and with suppliers' capacity constraints. Only a few mathematical programming models to analyse such decisions have been published to date, and these have tended to consider only net pri...