Currently competitive world outsourcing is one of the important strategies used by modern enterprises. Contractor selection is characterized as a multi-criteria decision-making problem that comprises tangible and intangible factors. Previous contractor selection techniques do not consider strategic perspective. This paper applied quantified SWOT in the context of contractor selection under a fu...

Many outsourcing contracts are expiring, and vendor transition is becoming an increasing concern in business. However, little research exists to help organizations manage vendor transition, a tripartite problem between the client, outgoing and incoming vendor. This paper applies balance of threat theory, a political science theory about interactions among nations, to explain and predict client ...

In traditional IT outsourcing and multisourcing arrangements, clients isolate vendor tasks, resulting in modular sourcing structures. But this approach can stifle vendor competition, result in vendor lock-in and hinder organizational flexibility. The full article describes how adidas adopted a new type of multisourcing strategy, which embraces vendor overlaps to overcome these constraints, and ...

The growth in the information technology (IT) services market and the increasing tendency of firms to outsource some or all of their IT functions necessitate better mechanisms for selecting IT vendors. For most projects, there are a multitude of potential vendors that differ in quality and other aspects that are difficult to assess at the time of contracting. In addition, many projects have out...

INTRODUCTION This study compared the variability of 3D echo derived circumferential and longitudinal strain values computed from vendor-specific and vendor-independent analyses of images acquired using ultrasound systems from different vendors. METHODS Ten freshly harvested porcine hearts were studied. Each heart was mounted on a custom designed phantom and driven to simulate normal cardiac m...

What factors affect client perception of vendor preference in a crowdsourcing marketplace? We approach this question from two theoretical perspectives in this study. First, extending the knowledge of e-commerce transaction, we propose the concept of vendor-task fit in this study and test its relationship to vendor preference. Second, we posit that swift trust also influences client decisions. O...

One of the key issues in logistics management context is the measurement of the vendors’ efficiency which helps companies to achieve the most appropriate services. In today’s competitive condition, most of the firms have changed from a single vendor to a multi-vendor point of view. A number of conceptual and analytical models have also been developed for identifying the vendor selection problem...

The Indian manufacturing industry is growing rapidly, and supply chain management (SCM) plays the most important role in industry. In SCM, customer satisfaction terms of quantity, quality on time delivery critical factor. To satisfy this requirement, best third-party logistics (3PL) service provider required. Therefore, selection one basic requirements SCM. Logistics services are backbone an ec...

A Many organizations consider outsourcing their information technology (IT) development projects as an attractive risk-mitigating approach. In such an engagement, the vendor may agree to complete a project for a fixed cost and according to a defined time schedule. Nevertheless, while the vendor is liable for the traditional project risks, other forms of risk may arise, which are the vend...