Supply chain management has increasingly been recognized as a key driver of overall operational and financial performance. In this study we focus on supplier relations in financial services processes and empirically examine the relationship between supplier relations and supply chain performance using a unique database with a sample of 108 financial services processes. Our results show that, af...

Efficiency and effectiveness of the organization is result ofmanagement performance and supply chain structure.Today, several factors in selection the supplier or the best combination of suppliers have been identified that this issue would increase the complexity of suplier selecting.This study investigates the application of Fuzzy Delphi in order to identify the important factors in selecting ...

W explore using an option contract as a price discrimination tool under demand uncertainty. In our capacity game model, a monopolistic supplier has to build capacity before observing the uncertain demand. The demand is generated by two potential customers, who privately know their own types. The types could be either high or low, differing in willingness to pay for each unit of demand. To discr...

Purpose of the paper and literature addressed: The purpose of this research is to understand why early supplier integration in new product development repeatedly fails and how to select the right suppliers to avoid supplier obstructionism. We review the literature on early supplier integration. Research method: We conducted a consortial benchmarking study, involving seven firms as part of the r...

Prior studies have documented that in firm-supplier relations where the firm makes an investment up-front, the profits are exposed to expropriation by the supplier, and results in underinvestment. We analyze such a firm-supplier relation in a bargaining framework, and show that the bargaining power of the firm is positively related to the resale value of its investment, and negatively related t...

Abstract Electric power market competition is intense. The competition between the various power plants will is the contest of economic efficiency as the core. Fuel cost is the center link of production management and economic accounting in thermal power plant, so selection management of the coal-fired supplier has great significance for the development of thermal power enterprise and improveme...

In many industries such as automotive industry, there are a lot of suppliers dealing with the final products manufacturer. With growing numbers of suppliers, the suppliers’ efficiency measurement often becomes the most significant concern for manufacturers. Therefore, various performance measurement models such as DEA, AHP, TOPSIS, are developed to support supplier selection decisions. After an...

As the most important responsibility of purchasing management, the problem of supplier evaluation and selection has always received a great deal of attention from practitioners and researchers. This management decision is a challenge due to the complexity and various criteria involved. Many methods based on data envelopment analysis(DEA) emerged, especially the cross efficiency. But it exists s...

This article outlines a hybrid method, incorporating multiple techniques into an evaluation process, in order to select competitive suppliers in a supply chain. It enables a purchaser to do single sourcing and multiple sourcing by calculating a combined supplier score (CSS), which accounts for both qualitative and quantitative factors that impact on supply chain performance. By performing a clu...

Purpose This study aims to examine the role of supplier selection and monitoring in public procurement efficiency terms cost reduction Tanzania. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire was used collect cross-sectional survey data from 179 procuring entities Structural equation modelling (SEM) analyse collected data. Findings The findings revealed that are positive significant pre...