Supply Chain Management and Logistics involves optimizing the delivery of goods, services and information from supplier to customer. An effective supply chain makes companies competitive and profitable. Information is essential to making optimal supply chain decisions because it provides the global scope needed to make optimal decisions. Information technology (IT) provides the tools together t...

The design of supplier relationship management to facilitate supplier selection using an integrative case based supplier selection and help desk approach to select the most appropriate suppliers together with their past performance records from a case base warehouse has become a promising solution for manufacturers to identify preferred suppliers and trading partners to form a supply network on...

Prominent buyers’ brands have been damaged because their suppliers caused major harm to workers or the environment, e.g., through a deadly factory fire or release of toxic chemicals. How can buyers motivate suppliers to exert greater care to prevent such harm? This paper characterizes a “backfiring condition” under which actions taken by prominent buyers (increasing auditing, publicizing negati...

Europas Konzerne investieren trotz Konjunkturfloute ungebremst i n den elektronischen Einkauf. E-Pr~urement stelk einen wesentlichen Baustein auf dem Weg zurn Supplier Relationship Monogement (SRM) dar. Die Komplexität der Projekte wird oft unterschätzt Um einen schnellen ROi sicherzustellen, ist eineprozessorientierte Einführung sowie aktives Wissensmanagement unerlässlich. Jede Projektphase g...

In this paper, we present a model of lean supplier management between an OEM and its suppliers for the objectives of eliminating wastes, reducing cost and improvement continuously based on the lean production. This model includes supplier selection and categorization, supplier improvement, supplier certification and supplier evaluation. First, the supplier selection process and some basic princ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of intellectual capital of Turkish automotive supplier industry upon their innovation performance. This study showed that three types of intellectual capital –employee capital, structural capital, and customer capital– had a significantly positive relationship with innovation performance. Moreover, the results also indicated that the hi...

According to the earlier researches there is no evidence that the information systems (IS) have any tangible benefits. But, it is very clear that IS can identify less costly sources of inputs for firms by making it cheaper and easier to evaluate prospective supplier offers. According to this, adopting IS should denote a value of information. We now develop a model which relates this potential v...

Attracted by the easier access to local markets, many foreign companies have formed manufacturing joint ventures in China. One of the key elements of successful international joint venture (IJV) manufacturing in China is the management of suppliers, since the supply chain plays an essential role in contributing to both the quality of finished products and controlling costs. Supplier management ...

Article history: Received 1 January 2010 Received in revised form 10 March 2010 Accepted 1 April 2010 Available online 30 April 2010 Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is one of the effective techniques for managing the inventory in supply chain. VMI models have been proven to reduce the cost of inventory compared with traditional economic order quantity method under some conditions such as constan...