Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from corporate activities are gradually becoming a mainstream management issue for businesses. The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Corporate Standard has been adopted as the international standard to report a corporation’s overall emission profile of their value chain activities. Through Scope 3 Corporate Standard, companies can recognize potential emissions and associated ...

Supplier assessment has been a vital issue of strategic importance in supply chain. It helps to reduce operating cost, improve competitiveness and develop business opportunities. However, supplier selection is usually complex unstructured activity, involves the consideration various characteristics simultaneously such as large number alternatives, multiple criteria involved evaluation process w...

We study a firm’s cost-based sourcing decision of whether to invest in an incumbent supplier or switch to an alternative supplier in order to realise lower purchasing costs. In isolation, it can be shown that the development of an incumbent supplier (i.e., a cooperative investment) becomes more attractive, the higher the uncertainty about the price the buying firm can realise on the market and ...

Abstract Many studies on buyer–supplier-supplier triads demonstrate the value of interactions between three business actors instead two for identifying triadic collaboration strategies that can lead firms to improve their performance. However, there is little research date has explored which specific lean improvements various types to. This paper fills this gap. We study an automotive supplier ...

A Supply chain management (SCM) adopts a systematic and integrative approach to managing the operations and relationships among different parties in supply chains. To implement SCM successfully involves a lot of issues. One of the major issues is supplier development. On the other hand, studies have investigated how quality management can be employed in SCM to improve the performance of ...

The paper presents the process of the selection of a potential supplier, which have to be the most appropriate to stakeholders. The selection is based on a set of criteria: Delivery Price, Financial Position, Production Specifications, Standards and Relevant Certificates, Commercial Strength, and the Performance of supplier, etc. The criteria for evaluation and their importance are selected by ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Despite growing recognition of the importance of boundary spanners at managing inter-organizational relationships , the process by which capabilities residing in boundary spanning individuals are leveraged to encourage partner firm investment remains unclear. In addressing this gap, we find that a boundary spanner's capabilities in strategic communication and job expertise...

The Information Technology Procurement & supplier Quality department of Bell Canada is responsible for the procurement of complex sofrware products. To assess and manage the risks related to these acquisitions, we have developed methods and tools that combine process capability assessment and software product assessment, This provides us with a generic view of the deployment of software tools a...

Given the managerial/financial commitments needed for supplier development programs, buying firms need to be selective of suppliers they engage development. This paper examines moderating role five supply-side factors (i.e. size, supply share, product complexity, buyer-supplier integration, and supplier's management systems) in relationship between performance, through a structural model, which...