Relationship quality and supplier performance in food supply chains

Managing Services Supply Chains: The Relationship between Supplier Relations and Supply Chain Performance

Supply chain management has increasingly been recognized as a key driver of overall operational and financial performance. However, empirical studies in this area have been conducted primarily in manufacturing and/or at the SBU or firm level. It is unclear whether the results of these studies generalize to services and/or intra-firm processes. Thus, in this study we focus specifically on suppli...

Automated Reasoning for Supplier Performance Appraisal in Supply Chains

Supplier Selection Criteria and Methods in Supply Chains: A Review

An effective supplier selection process is very important to the success of any manufacturing organization. The main objective of supplier selection process is to reduce purchase risk, maximize overall value to the purchaser, and develop closeness and long-term relationships between buyers and suppliers in today’s competitive industrial scenario. The literature on supplier selection criteria an...

testIng a performanCe measurement framework for agrI-fooD supplY ChaIns

Measurement of entire supply chain performance is an important issue, because it allows for ‘tracking and tracing’ of efficacy and efficiency failures and leads to more informed decisionmaking with regards to chain organization. The ultimate aim of implementing a performance measurement system is to improve the performance of the organization. If supply chains can get their performance measurem...

Vulnerable Options in Supply Chains: Effects of Supplier Competition

This paper presents valuation of inventory-reorder options in a competitive environment with defaultable suppliers. Analysis of a single period model of a supply chain with two suppliers, a retailer, and exogenous sources of defaults, leads to a number of surprising observation on the effects of the supplier credit risk and competition on the value of the deferment option, retailer’s procuremen...