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A Purchasing Portfolio approach to Supplier Relationship Management at Volvo Car Group IT
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Barriers in supplier development encountered by SMEs as suppliers in the South African railway industry
, 2014
"... Barriers in supplier development encountered by SMEs as suppliers in the South African railway industry ii The purpose of the study was to explore barriers to supplier development encountered by SMEs as suppliers in the South African railway industry. The first objective was to identify barriers fac ..."
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Barriers in supplier development encountered by SMEs as suppliers in the South African railway industry ii The purpose of the study was to explore barriers to supplier development encountered by SMEs as suppliers in the South African railway industry. The first objective was to identify barriers
The Structure of Costs and the Duration of Supplier Relationships∗
, 2015
"... Download the latest version The duration of a supply relationship depends on two types of costs: (i) the transaction cost of switching suppliers and (ii) the cost of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the relationship lasts too long. I develop a model of optimal contract duration that cap ..."
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Download the latest version The duration of a supply relationship depends on two types of costs: (i) the transaction cost of switching suppliers and (ii) the cost of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the relationship lasts too long. I develop a model of optimal contract duration
II. The Growing Importance of Suppliers: A Mixed Blessing........................... 3
, 2000
"... Executive Summary............................................................................................ i Policy Recommendations.............................................................................................. ii ..."
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Executive Summary............................................................................................ i Policy Recommendations.............................................................................................. ii
The Location Decision of Automotive Suppliers in Tennessee and the Southeast
, 1999
"... Contents EXECUTIVESUMMARY ................................................v I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................1 II WHATINFLUENCESBUSINESSLOCATION? ..............................2 TheLocationDecisionProcess .......................................3 WhatFactors ..."
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Contents EXECUTIVESUMMARY ................................................v I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................1 II WHATINFLUENCESBUSINESSLOCATION? ..............................2 TheLocationDecisionProcess .......................................3 What
Relational Contracts and Supplier Turnover in the Global Economy
, 2015
"... Headquarters and their specialized component suppliers have a vital interest in establish-ing long-term collaborations. When formal contracts are not enforceable, such efficiency-enhancing cooperations can be established via informal agreements, but relational con-tracts have been largely ignored in ..."
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, and ii) whether to make a non-binding offer to overcome hold-up problems. Our key result is that the possibility to switch partners crucially affects the contractual nature of buyer-supplier relationships. In particular, some patient firms do not immediately estab-lish a relational contract, but only
Supplier Capacity and Intermediary Profits: Can Less Be More?
"... We identify market conditions under which intermediaries can thrive in retailer-driven supply chains. Our main finding is that, as a consequence of the retailers ’ leadership position, intermediaries prefer products for which the supply base (existing production capacity) is neither too narrow nor t ..."
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too broad; that is, less existing capacity can result in more inter-mediary profit. We also show that our main finding is robust to (i) the presence of horizontal competition among retailers and intermediaries, (ii) the existence of exclusive suppliers, and (iii) the ability of the retailers to source
1 Online Companion Document Appendix for Optimal Inventory Policy with Two Suppliers
"... We show that the optimal policy is one of the three forms cited in the theorem provided the following two properties hold: (i) The optimal cost function,)(1 xfn − , is a K-convex function on),0 [ ∞ 1. (ii))(~) ( 11 zfzczczczm n H hsn − − +++ = α is decreasing on]0,(− ∞ and increasing on),0 [ ∞. ..."
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possibility]. Assume that properties (i) and (ii) hold for the n-1 period model. For the n-period model there are two choices to consider. Choice 1: Buy from the LVC supplier. This corresponds to the first term in equation (2), namely [])()()(inf 1 yGxycKxyxy nL −+−+⋅− ≥ δ. By the induction step,)(1 zfn
A multiple criteria decision making technique for supplier selection and inventory management strategy: A case of multi-product and multi-supplier problem.
- Decision Science Letters,
, 2013
"... Selection of an appropriate supplier along with planning a good inventory system has become an area of open research for the past few years. In this paper, we present a multi objective decision making supplier and inventory management model where two objectives including the quality and offering pr ..."
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price of supplier are minimized, simultaneously. The proposed model is formulated as mixed integer programming and it is converted into an ordinary single objective function using Lp-Norm. In order to find efficient solution, we use NSGA-II as meta-heuristic technique and the performance of the proposed
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