lead-time at the expense of the supplier with shorter production lead-time and there are conditions for the retailer’s profit to be increasing in default correlation. When wholesale prices are allowed to vary, analysis of the game between suppliers shows that introduction of the deferment option

the auction (post-qualification). Using an optimal mechanism analysis we analytically explore the tradeoffs between varying levels of pre- and post-qualification. While using post-qualification causes the expected contract payment to increase (bids from unqualified suppliers are discarded) we find

, which compared 23 attributes of the current suppliers with “new ” potential supplier. The attributes of new suppliers were varied across two to four levels using established factorial experimental design procedures. The resultant multinomial logit models show the relative impact of cost, flexibility

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with management personnel at 36 organisations in Finland and in the Netherlands. Almost every firm had innovation relationships with their custo-mers and suppliers, but the forms these relationships took, and the kinds of practices they involved, varied greatly. As a result, the firms considered the management

Abstract In manufacturing systems, the quantity of raw material needed in production is dependent on the production size. In this paper we consider a man-ufacturing system which procures raw materials from suppliers and processes them to make a finished product. The problems are to determine

What are the key success factors for a supplier in a global account management relationship? Despite a strong trend in international marketing practice to establish global account management (GAM) programs, the answer to this basic question seems to elude both practice and theory. Existing research

shop that offers several modes of repair with different repair times and an external supplier of spare parts. The network model of the problem presented here efficiently solves the problem for deterministic demands that vary over time with backorders taken into account.

are consistent with varied models, one of which is that government and nonprofit providers have different objective functions, trading off quality and consumer access differently as government pursues a supplier-of-last-resort role. The Roles of Government and Nonprofit Suppliers in Mixed Industries I.

Abstract: As production equipment is often designed and built by equipment suppliers rather than made in-house, a collaborative buyer-supplier-relationship could be utilized in order to create robust solutions and enhance innovative ideas. The purpose with this paper is to explore critical user-supplier