This article investigates integrated production-inventory models with backorder. A single supplier and a single buyer are considered and shortage as backorder is allowed for the buyer. The proposed models determine optimal order quantity, optimal backorder quantity and optimal number of deliveries on the joint total cost for both buyer and supplier. Two cases are discussed: single-setup-singl...

Business clusters and global value chains (GVCs) command growing interest in some research disciplines. In the existing literature overwhelmingly focus on two niches: governance and upgrading. The detailed mechanisms of buyer-supplier relationship management tend to remain under-researched. This paper presents a framework base on the literature on the literature of International Marketing and P...

B of long lead times associated with product development and building capacity, a supplier must initiate investment in capacity when the product development effort is ongoing. Because the product is ill defined at this point in time, the buyer is unable to commit to the future terms of trade through a courtenforceable contract. Instead, to provide incentives for capacity investment, the buyer i...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Inter-organizational systems Information technology Information systems Business relationship Buyer–supplier relationship Information technology (IT) has long been acknowledged as an integral part of inter-organizational business exchange. The extant research, however, tends to emphasize the focal company perspective and focuses on operational issues, perceiving ...

Supplier relationship management is an important research field in Supply Chain Management. This paper aims to study the existing portfolio models for supplier relationship management then apply Svensson(2000)’s model to classify buyer-supplier relationship in an Iranian automotive industry supply chain. Finally present a framework for supplier relationship management. Data for this study was c...

time sharing contracts are a new type of contracts relating to immovable property created in response to modern life necessities. the main feature of this type of contract is that the ownership of property is transferred to the buyer for a limited period of the year. unlike traditional sale contracts in which the buyer acquires the complete and continuous ownership of the property purchased, in...

In this paper, we analyze the impact of supplier pricing schemes and supplier capacity limitations on the optimal sourcing policy for a single firm. We consider the situation where the total quantity to be procured for a single period is known by the firm and communicated to the supplier set. In response to this communication, each supplier quotes a price and a capacity limit in terms of a maxi...

Strategic buyer–supplier relationships are increasingly viewed in both the scholarly and practitioner literatures as key drivers of sustainable competitive advantage. In particular, relationship specific adaptations – the extent to which exchange members make tangible or intangible adaptations for a partner – are acknowledged as one of the central issues. Such adaptations need to be examined in...