Since a company can merely perform as good as allowed by its suppliers, the extreme importance of supplier selection in supply chain management has been increasingly recognized. Supplier selection can be best described as a highly complex process due to the involvement of many, sometimes conflicting, both qualitative and quantitative criteria. The goal of supplier selection is to select the mos...

Since a company can only perform as well as it is allowed to by its suppliers, the importance of supplier selection in supply chain management has been increasingly recognized. Supplier selection can best be described as a highly complex process, due to the involvement of many, sometimes conflicting, qualitative and quantitative criteria. The objective is to select the most suitable supplier(s)...

Economic interdependence between suppliers and customers generates proprietary information useful for credit risk assessment. Such proprietary information can mitigate information asymmetry between borrowers and lenders, and substitutes for conservative accounting numbers in debt contracting. We hypothesize that a pre-existing lending relationship with a borrower’s customer(s) grants the lender...

Industrial buyers often create cost models to estimate the costs of potential suppliers and use the information to negotiate an attractive price with suppliers. However, in settings where the buyer wishes to negotiate a contract price by soliciting competitive bids from multiple suppliers, the benefit of cost modeling is not clear since the bidding competition among suppliers can itself reveal ...

This paper discusses multiple unit auctions for industrial procurement where the cost structures of suppliers capture economies and diseconomies of scale caused by the nature of the production cost and the opportunity value of suppliers capacities. The problem of winner determination and demand allocation is proven to be NP-complete. We propose a binary tree algorithm with bounds (BTB) which ef...

Horizontal scope – the set of products and services o¤ered – is an important dimension of ...rm strategy and a potentially signi...cant source of competitive advantage. On the one hand, the ability to build close buyer-supplier relationships over multiple transactions can give an advantage to broad ...rms that o¤er buyers “one-stop-shopping.” On the other hand, the existence of organizational t...

in recent years, supply chain management has developed into one of the most critical strategies for achieving competitive advantage in different industries and the supplier selection process has increasingly been distinguished as an important and vital decision in supply chain management of manufacturing and service industries. on the other hand, with so many suppliers having different capabili...

In 2010-2012, new outpatient service locations were established in Hungarian micro-regions, which had lacked such capacities before. We exploit this quasi-experiment to estimate the effect of geographical accessibility on outpatient case numbers using both individual-level and semi-aggregate panel data. We find a 24-27 per cent increase of case numbers as a result of the establishments. Our spe...

This research was conducted at the Barcelona School of Engineering (ETSEIB) and promoted by the Nissan factory in Barcelona. In this paper, first, the concept of synchronous manufacturing is explored. After several improvement ideas are spotted within the Nissan plant, the paper focuses on the suppliers. An intervention approach is proposed. Suppliers are categorized and selected suppliers are ...