Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance outcomes of strategic sourcing, specifically examining how strategic sourcing affects buyer‐supplier relationship, supplier evaluation, and sourcing performance from the buying firm's perspective in the context of the US textile and apparel industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study provides an empirical investigation of ...

Supplier intelligence represents an important type of competitive intelligence essential to organizational strategic planning and analysis, because the moves that the suppliers of a firm make will affect the business network’s health, which in turn will impact the performance of the firm. Central to supplier intelligence is to identify who the suppliers of a focal firm and its competitors are. ...

This study investigates the relationships between U.S. buying firms’ supplier development efforts, commitment, social capital accumulation with key suppliers, and buying firm performance. We identify linkages between supply chain management research on supplier development and organization theory research on social capital to consider how buying firm commitment to a long-term relationship, cogn...

Original scientific paper In the present conditions of market globalization and thus increased market competition, the purchasing department and management structure of the company, in addition to answering questions what, how many and when to buy at what price, has also to be answered the question about an appropriate supplier. Supplier selection as well as the efficient inventory control can ...

Supplier evaluation and selection is a critical decision process for companies in order to gain competitive advantage. Decision models focusing on risk minimization have recently received increasing attention in supplier selection literature. In this paper, risk factors, which incorporate qualitative as well as quantitative data, are employed in fuzzy data envelopment analysis for obtaining eff...

The aim of this paper is the evaluation overall performance of buyer-supplier relationships.In some situations the cost of inputs in a buyer-supplier chain are available, on the other hand, achieving a low cost position is necessary for most businesses. And, in a buyer-supplier chain wants to know how assign inputs with the least cost. This paper introduces cost efficiency with same and dierent...

The relationship between the manufacturer and supplier has changed from one of competition into that of greater cooperation during recent years. The selection and evaluation of suppliers are primary and important issues when an enterprise implements Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and Total Quality Management (TQM). Much research indicates that most enterprises tend to evaluate their sup...

abstractPT.XYZ is a manufacturing drilling tools company where the assembly parts are supplied by other companies. With 4% average percentage of not good (NG) from incoming inspections in 2019 and peak 9,8% April, needs to review its current suppliers. This research compares result supplier selection using FAHP, TOPSIS SMART methods get recommended The three resulted same suppliers with highest...

In these days, considering the growth of knowledge about sustainability in enterprise, the sustainable supplier selection would be the central component in the management of a sustainable supply chain. In this paper the sustainable supplier selection criteria and sub-criteria are determined and based on those criteria and sub-criteria a methodology is proposed onto evaluation and ranking of a g...

Supplier selection is a multi-Criteria problem. This study proposes a hybrid model for supporting the suppliers’ selection and ranking. This research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the suppliers where each supplier has multiple Inputs and Outputs. First, the supplier evaluation problem is formulated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), since the regarded decision deals with uncertai...