The present study aims to provide a model for financing buyer-supplier in Mehrvarzan healthcare Company. The statistical population of the study includes 300 employees of the company. According to Morgan table, 168 people are selected as the statistical sample. Available non-random sampling method has been used. For collecting the required information, the standard buyer-supplier financing ques...

This paper focuses on strategic information flows between buyers and suppliers within logistics supply chain relationships and on subsequent relationship-specific performance outcomes. Our analysis of dyadic data collected from 91 buyer–supplier logistics relationships finds that buyer and supplier strategic information flows positively impact the relationship-specific performance of both shari...

The aim of this research project is the evaluation of performance in buyer-supplier relationships through the measurement of intensity and effectiveness of information flows occurring between two or more actors involved in a supply chain. It is grounded in the assumption that gradual increments of the information sharing produce positive increase in the local and global performance of the suppl...

Information technology has altered the way companies manage their supply chains, and has resulted in a variety of new inter-organizational logistics management approaches. Many partners who are adjacent on the supply chain can both gain from sharing information that was previously accessible to only one of them; this situation is typical in retailer-supplier interactions. Our study analyzes the...

While sharing the innovation between a buyer and a supplier can increase the efficiency and total profit of the supply chain, many suppliers are reluctant to do so. Sharing innovations leaves the supplier in a vulnerable position if the buyer exploits the information (e.g. by re-sharing the supplier’s innovation with competing suppliers). In this paper, we examine conditions under which a colla...

With the popularity of commercial use of the Internet and WWW, business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce and e-procurement are moving corporate purchasing to the Web. Basically, there are two types of B2B e-commerce business models. Extranets connect the buyer and its suppliers with a closed network. In contrast, electronic markets create open networks for buyer and supplier interactions. Extensive ...

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...

Forecast sharing in a supply chain using linear price contracts often leads to inefficiencies as the buyer has an incentive to inflate demand forecasts to ensure sufficient supply. Recent research in supply chain contracting has focused on one-shot relationships, and has identified various contracts that align incentives in the supply chain and induce the buyer to reveal forecast information tr...

With the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, information sharing among participants in a supply chain is greatly facilitated, raising privacy concerns on sharing sensitive information. Balancing the conflicts between the improvement of visibility and the decrease of sensitive information shared is paramount. In this paper, the authors propose a leader-follower game mod...