Business clusters and global value chains (GVCs) command growing interest in some research disciplines. In the existing literature overwhelmingly focus on two niches: governance and upgrading. The detailed mechanisms of buyer-supplier relationship management tend to remain under-researched. This paper presents a framework base on the literature on the literature of International Marketing and P...

This paper presents an overview of the SAS® approach to supplier management, focusing on the use of SAS’ wellestablished optimization expertise to aid in selecting and evaluating suppliers. The supplier management solutions are explored individually and are shown in the context of a complete spectrum of SAS supply chain solutions.

The emergence of new electronic procurement applications and the rise of existing ones to their full potential have been revolutionising the disciplines of procurement and supplier relationship management. To date, however, very little research has been conducted regarding the impact of electronic procurement on supplier relationships. This paper lays the foundation for a more fine-tuned assess...

While there is an ever increasing adoption of e-sourcing, where the buyer auctions procurement contracts to a small group of pre-qualified suppliers, a critical question to its sustainability remains: Does it damage long-term buyer-supplier relationships? We explore this question by developing a conceptual model of non-price attributes, bidding behavior and auction outcome. We examine in detail...

In a business-to-business (B2B) environment, most if not every large company interacts with suppliers, customers, and competitors on one or more Net markets, connecting to both ends of the supply chain, the supplier side and the customer side. To support purchasing agents, analysts, and managers in evaluating their purchasing decisions, a new analytical tool is presented, the Marketplace Compet...

There are many fields of application in the agro-food industry where interoperability of information system would be essential. Amongst others food tracking and tracing, logistics, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) integration all need interoperability solution in a heterogeneous environment. In order to carry out a successful research on this top...

The aim of this study is to provide a conceptual model that links several key variables including supplier relationship management (SRM) and customer (CRM) organisational factors (OF) knowledge (KM) enhance quality performance (QP) Hong Kong watch trade. Literature review was conducted extensively, the approach employed conceptualized into proposed framework. A framework suggested in paper QP w...