We examine supplier switching decisions using a unique database that tracks firms (credit unions) and their suppliers (data processing vendors); the data are in a panel, allowing us to track supplier switching decisions at a new level of detail. We focus on two sets of relationships. First, we estimate a model that relates supplier choices and switching to a variety of buyerand supplier-specifi...

For any organization, the most important decision is purchasing goods and services selection is one of the most critical activities of purchase management in supply chain. Significant suppliers play an important role in the competitive market. Better suppliers perform the better organization. The supplier selection of a leading automobile organization is analyzed in this study. Analytic Network...

It is widely acknowledged that suppliers contribute positively to innovation in new product development. However, it remains rather unclear what suppliers actually contribute to innovation. Based on a literature review focusing on 80 articles, and a focus group meeting with strategic purchasing managers, a conceptual framework is developed categorizing different supplier inputs to innovation. T...

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) plays an important role in the reduction of costs and the optimization of performance in industrial enterprises. Despite enormous investments in innovation, the health care sector has not experienced fundamental change yet. However, increased market dynamics and the implementation of economic principles will force health service providers to optimize cost ...

The strategic supplier-related activity of supplier segmentation focuses on the evaluation of suppliers, identifying different approaches, identifying the most suitable criteria and proper methods to segment the suppliers. The main aim of the evaluation of suppliers is to form different groups from the selected suppliers to create different supplier management strategies for segments involved. ...

Supplier selection in supply chain is critical strategic decision for organization’s success and has attracted much attention of both academic researchers and practitioners. Supplier selection problem consists of stochastic and recognitive uncertainties. However, the requirement of large sample size and strong subject knowledge to build suitable fuzzy membership function restrict the applicabil...

––In the supplier selection process, the most important issue is to determine suitable decision making criteria for selecting the right supplier. This research aimed to identify the most important criteria to be used as a baseline for a supplier selection process of automobile sector in India. The results are based on the feedback from automobile sector in India. The common questionnaire was us...

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...

Based on the characteristics of supplier selection for CALS(Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support), that companies with CALS have many suppliers and suppliers are always strategic suppliers, supplier selection process is divided into two phases: pre-selection and making decision. At supplier pre-selection stage, polychromatic sets theory from Russia is introduced as the solution scheme....