A sustainable sourcing competence model for purchasing and supply management professionals

Sustainable supply management as a purchasing capability A power and dependence perspective

Education of Purchasing Professionals in Austria: Competence Based View

This paper deals with the education of purchasing professionals in Austria. In this education, equivalent and measurable criteria are collected in order to create a comparison. The comparison shows the problem. To make the aforementioned comparison possible, methodologies such as KODE-Competence Atlas or presentations in a matrix form are used. The result shows the content taught and whether th...

Steel Scrap Purchasing Optimization and Supply Management

A mixed integer non-linear optimization problem has been developed to aid in purchasing scrap steel. The model, which includes about 600 real-valued variables, 200 integers, and over 800 possible constraint equations, uses industrial data, actual market prices and supplier information to perform calculations. Prices, quality and supplier information are input or read into the model, along with ...

Strategic purchasing , supply management , and firm performance

Purchasing has increasingly assumed a pivotal strategic role in supply-chain management. Yet, claims of the strategic role of purchasing have not been fully subjected to rigorous theoretical and empirical scrutiny. Extant research has remained largely anecdotal and theoretically under-developed. In this paper, we examine the links among strategic purchasing, supply management, and firm performa...

A multi objective mixed integer programming model for design of a sustainable meat supply chain network

In the recent decades, rapid population growth has led to the significant increase in food demand. Food supply chain has always been one of the most important and challenging management issues. Product with short age, especially foodstuffs, is the most problematic challenges for supply chain management. These challenges are mainly due to the diversity in the number of these goods, the special n...