Sourcing from emerging economies may yield direct cost savings, but companies often face greater risk of supplier responsibility problems due to many factors, with lax regulatory enforcement in these regions being one of them. Intuitively, to mitigate such risks, companies can design incentive schemes in sourcing contracts and invest in screening mechanisms for supplier sourcing. However, the r...

Recent years have witness the pervasive supply disruptions and their impacts on supply chain performance. We investigate single or dual sourcing emergency model with partial supply disruptions. Introducing the concept of disruption proportion and delivery allocation, we first explore partial interrupted proportion of main supplier and delivery proportion of backup supplier. Under partial disrup...

This paper is to study how a firm screen an external supplier who has fairness preference using general screening framework. The with provides products or services the firm, and designs contract type of suppliers. supplier’s adjusted by their ability difference, this analyzes difference affect optimal variables under standard results illustrate that larger will narrow output between two differe...

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Supplier selection is a multi-criteria problem which includes both tangible and intangible factors in these problems if suppliers have capacity or other different constraints two problems will exist: which suppliers are the best and how much should be purchased from each selected supplier? The objective of this paper is to present an integrated model and a supporting approach for effective ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Asymmetry Customer–supplier relationships Smaller supplier Larger customer Taiwanese electronics industry The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship development stages of asymmetric customer–supplier relationships. The structure of relationships between larger customers and smaller suppliers has been the focus of a number of studies in IMP (Industri...

Many companies have changed their focus from short-term purchasing transactions to supply chain management, concentrating on developing long-term relations with suppliers. Thus, selecting a supplier commits the organization and its resources to an outsider for a long time, and any mistake in this selection adversely affects the stability of the organization. Moreover, the continual increase in ...