The authors investigated a type of buyer-seller relationship that occurs when a supplier becomes deeply involved in a manufacturer’s new product development activity; this is often called Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) in industry These relationships are interesting because they embody interorganizational issues and strategic concerns arising from new product development. Survey data collecte...

Section one consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 entitled " Enterprise Applications for Supply Chain Management " is written by Susan A. Sherer. Coordination of information to effectively operate and manage a supply chain can be a source of competitive advantage today. In order to gather, utilize, and effectively share information, companies continue to invest in information technology, acquiri...

The OEM’s requirements engineering and management process is affected by many residual encumbrances and future constraints. The encumbrances’ origin comes from the OEM’s strong dependency on suppliers’ software development knowledge and support. In contrast, future constraints are dealing with the assembling of software engineering knowledge, especially requirements engineering, as OEM’s core a...

This paper reports the results of a comparative study of quality tools and methods adoption by operations and supply chain managers. A survey was administered to both types of managers in the Western United States. Performing a Kruskal Wallis analysis, we found support for the hypothesis that operations and supply chain managers approach quality management differently. We found that operations ...

Résumé We use agency theory to shed light on a complex, multiyear outsourcing contract between an important public organization and three major information services outsourcers. The contractual arrangement shows that innovative contracts can be drawn that reduce the scope of supplier opportunism. Nous utilisons la théorie des mandats pour analyser un important et complexe contrat d’impartition....

This study contributes to the agribusiness supplier relationship management literature both empirically and theoretically. The paper presents results from a survey of 133 dairy producers in Malaysia, and paper identifies how Malaysian milk buyers can build a loyal customer base with their suppliers as a means to secure uninterrupted milk supplies. A structural equation model was conducted to te...

IT outsourcing’s adoption by some of the largest international corporations has seen outsourcing become a key component of the Information Management agenda. However, the process of evaluating, selecting, and subsequently contracting out or selling the organization’s IT assets, people and/or activities to a third party supplier raises significant concern in light of the inherent ‘Winner’s Curse...

As a key to a firm’s success, effective supply chain management practices have received enormous attention from both academics and practitioners. Especially, a shift in a paradigm of supplier-customer relationships from an “arm’s length” type of interaction to a “closer tie” relation in the manufacturing industry has been widely reported (Frazier et al. 1988; Heide and John 1990; The Economist ...

Whilst there is much research material on buyer and supplier performance assessment and management, a relationship perspective can bring an added dimension, especially to the performance of close, mutual relationships. This article aims to bring a relationship performance understanding to the study of buyer–supplier exchange. Unfortunately, business-to-business relationships are assumed to enha...

Supply chain and industrial cluster are the results of competition economy. Clustering analysis enable more efficient supply chain management practices. In this paper, we focus our discussion on the rough set theory for clustering supplier chain management. We propose ROSMAN (ROugh Set approach for clustering Supplier chain MANagement), an alternative algorithm for clustering supplier base mana...