Most research on order splitting have focused on the reduction of safety stock in the multiple sourcing setting. Moreover, all works study the use of order splitting for the continuous review inventory systems. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of the multiple-delivery arrangement in the sole sourcing environment. In addition, we concentrate on the reduction of cycle stock for perio...

Recent years have witness the pervasive supply disruptions and their impacts on supply chain performance. We investigate single or dual sourcing emergency model with partial supply disruptions. Introducing the concept of disruption proportion and delivery allocation, we first explore partial interrupted proportion of main supplier and delivery proportion of backup supplier. Under partial disrup...

Spurred by the consumer market, companies increasingly deploy smartphones or tablet computers in their operations. However, unlike private users, companies typically struggle to cover their needs with existing applications, and therefore expand mobile software platforms through customized applications from multiple software vendors. Companies thereby combine the concepts of multi-sourcing and s...

This paper investigates sourcing decisions for new ventures. Sourcing are especially problematic start-ups because they lack resources, knowledge and legitimacy to evaluate interact with suppliers. We develop apply a framework that connects global sourcing, relationship development attractiveness. Further, we investigate how ventures their first supply chains by conducting an exploratory multip...

The wide range of products and services that are being sourced today has made the company’s procurement organization an increasingly important function. The complexities of managing sourcing options is greater than ever making the procurement function critical for overcoming an increasingly global, complex and uncertain sourcing environment. This paper discusses an overview of relevant sourcing...

The paper describes algorithms required to enable the crowd sourcing of indoor building maps, i.e., where GPS is not available. Nevertheless to enable crowd sourcing we use the 3-axis accelerometers and the 3-axis magnetometers available in many smart phones and the piezometer in a Nike running shoe. Volunteers carry the sensors while walking around in buildings, and use some application on the...

Although information technology (IT) outsourcing is widely applied by companies and has been intensively researched, there has been little scientific research on the differences in singleversus multi-sourcing constellations. Furthermore, linear extension of single-sourcing to multi-sourcing is limited, despite the fact that companies utilize multi-sourcing more frequently in recent times. This ...

This paper addresses the issue of understanding the strategic sourcing decision making process in a supply chain environment. A case study of an automotive company was used to analyse the decision making process under different sourcing scenarios. A strategic sourcing assessment was conducted to analyse the consequences of different strategies when sourcing an activity or a product. The assessm...