The purpose of this paper is to find out current supplier development practices employed by different organization. Paper mainly focuses on supplier development, supplier development activities, programs, critical elements and beneficial move by buyer. Importance of relationship development and factors responsible for it long with current gaps in this field is discussed in brief.

Increasingly, buyers are turning to the use of online, reverse auctions in their negotiation activities with suppliers. How does the use of these price competition mechanisms impact buyer-supplier relationships? We consider this question in the context of a quasi-experiment involving six reverse auctions conducted in the supply base of a major industrial buyer. The results indicate that online,...

The two critical factors distinguishing inventory management in a multifirm supply-chain context from the more traditional centrally planned perspective are incentive conflicts and information asymmetries. We study the well-known order quantity/reorder point (Q r) model in a two-player context, using a framework inspired by observations during a case study. We show how traditional allocations o...

in the supplier selection problem considering both parties benefits including the buyer and the supplier, is one of the key factors to enhance the supply chain management performance as well as sustaining a long term relationship with the suppliers. in fact, the integrated supplier selection models have been discussed in order to confirm the aforementioned subject. in this research, an integrat...

This paper theoretically and empirically examines the conventional wisdom in procurement management that often portrays supply inspections and supplier plant inspections as substitutes. We develop a theoretical model that focuses on potential internal spillover costs of the buyer receiving low-quality inputs and external spillover costs should low-quality inputs go undetected. Key to our analys...

The topic of buyer–supplier relationships has attracted much attention in the extant supply chain management literature, often from a buyer’s perspective. But recently, a number of studies have begun to take a dyadic perspective, acknowledging that both parties in a buyer–supplier relationship may possess divergent perspectives on many issues. Unlike existing dyadic-view studies that have exami...

This article develops an integrated JIT lot-splitting model for a single supplier and a single buyer. In this model we consider reduction of setup time, and the optimal lot size are obtained due to reduced setup time in the context of joint optimization for both buyer and supplier, under deterministic condition with a single product. Two cases are discussed: Single Delivery (SD) case, and Multi...

This research develops a causal-predictive model for predicting the supplier performance due to buyer-initiated supplier process improvement (SPI). SPI is one type of supply chain collaboration that focuses on process improvement. It is a common practice in supply chains that are driven by a powerful buyer firm. Drawing upon the supply chain management and process improvement literature, we rel...

E the tension between theory and practice regarding complexity and performance in contract design is especially relevant. The goal of this paper is to understand why simpler contracts may commonly be preferred in practice despite being theoretically suboptimal. We study a two-tier supply chain with a single supplier and a single buyer to characterize the impact of contract complexity and asymme...