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Akwera, Gordon. "Decision Sourcing." Information Design Journal 20, no. 2 (2013): 184–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/idj.20.2.08akw.

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Russell, Roberta S., and Marilyn Smith. "Reeling In Outsourcing: Evaluating Supply Chain Risk And Reward Under Economic Uncertainty." Journal of Service Science (JSS) 2, no. 1 (2009): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jss.v2i1.4290.

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In todays climate of economic uncertainty, companies that have relied on outsourcing in the past to curtail costs are increasingly reeling in their outsourcing decision to more appropriately balance supply chain risk and reward. This paper provides a review of the literature on reversing supply chain outsourcing and frames the sourcing decision in terms of multiple options, including multi- sourcing, near sourcing, and in-sourcing. A decision tree model is presented to aid the decision maker in evaluating the expected value of various sourcing decisions when risks and returns are explicitly considered. Trends and conditions that influence the outsourcing decision are also discussed.

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Schleper, Martin C., Constantin Blome, and Alina Stanczyk. "Archetypes of sourcing decision-making." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 40, no. 2 (2019): 117–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-07-2017-0397.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop taxonomy of sourcing decision-making (SDM) archetypes and explore how different contextual factors influence these archetypes when global sourcing of complex components is considered a viable option. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study approach with five in-depth cases is employed. In total, 19 interviews as well as publicly available and internal data from large buying firms headquartered in Austria and Germany were collected and analyzed. Findings The results reveal three different SDM archetypes which are described in detail (i.e. “consensus,” “argumentation” and “cabal”). Furthermore, it is found that these archetypes are mainly influenced by three contextual factors: sourcing maturity, product complexity and leadership style. The final model comprises six propositions which illustrate how these contextual factors determine companies’ SDM archetypes. Research limitations/implications The study contributes to theory development at the intersection of organizational buying behavior and the (global) SDM literature. Thereby, it answers the call for more rigorous investigation of the influence of contextual factors on SDM processes. Practical implications The findings enable practitioners to better understand and consequently manage SDM processes and their outcomes. By supporting decision-makers in identifying SDM archetypes, this study allows sourcing managers and teams to make better decisions by avoiding problems that occur in situations in which the preferred decision-making type would result in suboptimal decisions. Originality/value The study provides a first step toward taxonomy of SDM archetypes and is among the first that explores their underlying contextual factors.

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Atkinson, Mary Anne, Ozden Bayazit, and Birsen Karpak. "A Case Study Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process for IT Outsourcing Decision Making." International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management 8, no. 1 (2015): 60–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijisscm.2015010104.

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Decisions related to managing IT resources - which resources to keep in-house and which resources to outsource - are critical to business success. The goal of this paper is to show the usefulness of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a decision-making tool for IT sourcing decisions, based on an analysis of factors that recent literature found to be associated with IT sourcing risk. Although the AHP previously has been suggested for IT outsourcing decision making, this study is the first to consider evaluating the risks of offshore outsourcing, rural outsourcing, and in-sourcing IT processes by using the AHP. From the perspective of the expert decision maker, three IT sourcing strategies were evaluated with respect to 58 criteria. The case study example presented in this paper shows the effectiveness of the AHP to support management for this business decision. The authors' results show that a systematic approach to analyzing outsourcing can reduce the uncertainty and risk that is common in such decisions.

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Chen, Jingxian. "Sourcing for Quality: Cooperating with a Single Supplier or Developing Two Competing Suppliers?" Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2016 (2016): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3040343.

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Supplier efforts regarding product quality are an important issue in outsourcing and play a critical role in a manufacturer’s choice of sourcing strategy. Consider a manufacturer that wants to outsource the manufacturing of two substitute products to external suppliers. This paper studies the strategic interactions under two sourcing strategies: single and dual sourcing. A four-stage noncooperative game model is established to describe each member’s decisions. We further propose four decision scenarios: single sourcing with and without manufacturer quality investment sharing and dual sourcing when suppliers cooperate or do not cooperate on quality decisions. By the backward induction approach, we obtain analytical equilibrium solutions for each decision scenario. By comparing each pair of equilibrium profiles, we find that an appropriate proportion of quality investment sharing by the manufacturer can enable a cooperating strategy with a single supplier to be the dominant strategy. When the manufacturer does not want to share or does not want to share a relatively large portion of its supplier’s quality investment, it will always prefer to develop two competing suppliers when the cost of dual sourcing is sufficiently low. However, dual sourcing can be extremely risky for the manufacturer because the suppliers could provide a relatively low product quality level by cooperating on the quality decision to extract the manufacturer’s profit.

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Baines, Tim, and Gwyn Kay. "Manufacturing Sourcing Practices and Relationships." International Journal of Logistics Management 13, no. 2 (2002): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09574090210806469.

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Product‐sourcing practices can impact the competitiveness of an organization's products and services. Many sourcing practices exist and the challenge is to find the right practice, for the right product, at the right time. This paper describes a survey of 3,500 of UK companies, and reports on current and intended manufacturing sourcing practices; the associated decision‐making processes; and, the principal motives behind sourcing decisions. Key findings demonstrate a strong and ambitious trend towards open, integrated relationships between manufacturers and their principal suppliers; sourcing decisions increasingly based on well‐structured analysis of business needs and capabilities; and, the chief motivators being financial and market factors.

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Chae, Sangho, Benn Lawson, Thomas J. Kull, and Thomas Choi. "To insource or outsource the sourcing? A behavioral investigation of the multi-tier sourcing decision." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 39, no. 3 (2019): 385–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-04-2018-0231.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the behavioral tendencies of supply managers when they are faced with uncertainty in making multi-tier sourcing decisions. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses the literature on multi-tier supply chains and behavioral decision making to develop a theoretical framework for examining factors influencing a supply manager’s decision to retain control over sourcing in the multi-tier context. An experimental vignette methodology is used to gather data from 259 supply managers. Findings Results suggest that supply managers choose to exert less multi-tier control when they have high levels of interpersonal trust in the tier-1 supplier’s sales representative. This effect is accentuated by a high level of familiarity with potential lower-tier suppliers. Under high levels of familiarity with potential lower-tier suppliers, supply managers will exert greater levels of multi-tier sourcing control as the behavioral uncertainty of the tier-1 supplier increases. Practical implications Buying firms can enhance their understanding of supply managers’ multi-tier sourcing decision making and the potential biases associated with it. Suggestions for a more effective use of multi-tier sourcing are provided in the Discussion section. Originality/value Multi-tier sourcing is an increasingly important area of research, and this paper is the first to examine individual supply managers’ behavioral decision making in the multi-tier context. This paper also contributes to the outsourcing literature by investigating behavioral factors influencing the outsourcing of sourcing activities.

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Talluri, Srinivas, Hugo A. DeCampos, and G. Tomas M. Hult. "Supplier Rationalization: A Sourcing Decision Model." Decision Sciences 44, no. 1 (2012): 57–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5915.2012.00390.x.

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Ventovuori, Tomi. "ELEMENTS OF SOURCING STRATEGIES IN FM SERVICES - A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY." International Journal of Strategic Property Management 10, no. 4 (2006): 249–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1648715x.2006.9637556.

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The aim of this paper is to identify the different elements of the sourcing strategy decision‐making process and to clarify what are the factors that lead to the selection of a certain sourcing strategy in FM services. The study is based on a literature review and a multiple case study, which was conducted with four organizations representing different types of FM service clients. To find the optimal sourcing strategy and understand the consequences of different sourcing options, five decision categories must be analysed: sourcing interface, organizational decision‐making, the scope of service package, the geographical area of sourcing and relationship type. There are also some other elements that must be taken into account in the process of sourcing strategy development such as different elements of business in general and the prevailing market conditions. It is strongly suggested that companies could apply the presented integrated approach as a starting point for the development of sourcing strategies in FM services. In addition, this study shows that companies should view the development of sourcing strategies as an important phase of the procurement cycle.

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Rafati, Laleh, and Geert Poels. "Service-Oriented Enterprise Engineering." International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector 10, no. 3 (2018): 20–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijisss.2018070102.

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Strategic sourcing, as a critical area of strategic management, is centered on decision-making towards achieving value-driven targets. Many companies face challenges in obtaining the benefits associated with effective strategic sourcing decision-making. Enterprise modeling can contribute to strategic sourcing decision-making by helping in the conceptualization, design and exploration of multiple strategic options for better decision-making. In this article, the authors explore a solution approach that refines the existing Enterprise Engineering (EE) modeling discipline into a Service-oriented Enterprise Engineering (SoEE) modeling discipline, by founding it on the novel application of the Viable Systems Approach (vSa) towards strategic (sourcing) decision-making. The proposed modeling discipline provides (1) the systemic viewpoints to interpret complex sourcing phenomena; and (2) the outside-box models to specify the value-driven interactions of an enterprise (as a system) with other actors. Finally, to operationalize the modeling discipline the authors introduce the conceptual basis (C.A.R.S) of a modeling language to apply the SoEE viewpoints and develop the related models for supporting strategic sourcing decision-making. The paper elaborates on preliminary ideas presented at the SoEA4EE 2013 workshop.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sourcing decision"

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Delen, Guus Pieter Arnold Jozef. "Decision- en controlfactoren voor IT-sourcing." Zaltbommel : Amsterdam : Van Haren Publishing ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2005. http://dare.uva.nl/document/88638.

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Lammers, Markus. "Sourcing decision making in the banking industry." Berlin Pro Business, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2675692&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Mroczkowski, Victor A. (Victor Adam). "Integrated decision support model for global sourcing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44307.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-109).<br>Over the last decade, the U.S. aircraft industry has experienced increasing levels of international integration as companies seek to access global talent and resources, cut production costs, spread financial risk, and secure access to airplane markets throughout the world. In an increasingly complex environment, decision makers seek an effective framework to evaluate the true benefits, costs and risks of sourcing alternatives-both relating to the short-term effects of selecting particular suppliers or groups of suppliers, as well as the long-term effects of redrawing their firm boundary and developing a more vertically disintegrated supply chain. This thesis is an examination of strategic sourcing decision practices at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, based on a six-month internship study with the Future Airplane Production group in Seattle, Washington. In this thesis we will discuss the application of strategic analysis, lean operational analysis, managerial accounting, and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to improve existing sourcing analysis practices. An integrated decision support model is introduced to represent key sourcing decision factors, their relative importance, and the expected benefits, costs and risks to stakeholders related to each factor (comparing two sourcing alternatives). Using a weighted average, the model expressly indicates the relative value of each alternative. The model is applied to two case studies involving local insourcing and offshore outsourcing, respectively. This study demonstrates the need for incorporating explicit valuation of 'softer' strategic, operational and risk components along with the 'hard' financial analysis when making sourcing decisions.<br>by Victor A. Mroczkowski.<br>S.M.<br>M.B.A.

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Abidin, Aznizah Zainal. "An analytical approach to strategic sourcing decision making." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493107.

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Strategic sourcing is one of the major decision making areas in Supply Chain Management (SCM) that provides competitive advantage to companies around the world. This research provides a conceptual understanding of the strategic sourcing decision making process when considering SCM issues. The research started with an understanding of the strategic sourcing decision environments captured from semi structured interviews and empirical studies.

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Scott, James. "Developing a decision framework for the strategic sourcing of biomass." Thesis, Aston University, 2013. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/20913/.

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The deployment of bioenergy technologies is a key part of UK and European renewable energy policy. A key barrier to the deployment of bioenergy technologies is the management of biomass supply chains including the evaluation of suppliers and the contracting of biomass. In the undeveloped biomass for energy market buyers of biomass are faced with three major challenges during the development of new bioenergy projects. What characteristics will a certain supply of biomass have, how to evaluate biomass suppliers and which suppliers to contract with in order to provide a portfolio of suppliers that best satisfies the needs of the project and its stakeholder group whilst also satisfying crisp and non-crisp technological constraints. The problem description is taken from the situation faced by the industrial partner in this research, Express Energy Ltd. This research tackles these three areas separately then combines them to form a decision framework to assist biomass buyers with the strategic sourcing of biomass. The BioSS framework. The BioSS framework consists of three modes which mirror the development stages of bioenergy projects. BioSS.2 mode for early stage development, BioSS.3 mode for financial close stage and BioSS.Op for the operational phase of the project. BioSS is formed of a fuels library, a supplier evaluation module and an order allocation module, a Monte- Carlo analysis module is also included to evaluate the accuracy of the recommended portfolios. In each mode BioSS can recommend which suppliers should be contracted with and how much material should be purchased from each. The recommended blend should have chemical characteristics within the technological constraints of the conversion technology and also best satisfy the stakeholder group. The fuels library is made up from a wide variety of sources and contains around 100 unique descriptions of potential biomass sources that a developer may encounter. The library takes a wide data collection approach and has the aim of allowing for estimates to be made of biomass characteristics without expensive and time consuming testing. The supplier evaluation part of BioSS uses a QFD-AHP method to give importance weightings to 27 different evaluating criteria. The evaluating criteria have been compiled from interviews with stakeholders and policy and position documents and the weightings have been assigned using a mixture of workshops and expert interview. The weighted importance scores allow potential suppliers to better tailor their business offering and provides a robust framework for decision makers to better understand the requirements of the bioenergy project stakeholder groups. The order allocation part of BioSS uses a chance-constrained programming approach to assign orders of material between potential suppliers based on the chemical characteristics of those suppliers and the preference score of those suppliers. The optimisation program finds the portfolio of orders to allocate to suppliers to give the highest performance portfolio in the eyes of the stakeholder group whilst also complying with technological constraints. The technological constraints can be breached if the decision maker requires by setting the constraint as a chance-constraint. This allows a wider range of biomass sources to be procured and allows a greater overall performance to be realised than considering crisp constraints or using deterministic programming approaches. BioSS is demonstrated against two scenarios faced by UK bioenergy developers. The first is a large scale combustion power project, the second a small scale gasification project. The Bioss is applied in each mode for both scenarios and is shown to adapt the solution to the stakeholder group importance and the different constraints of the different conversion technologies whilst finding a globally optimal portfolio for stakeholder satisfaction.

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Weber, Deisi Luana Diel. "Sourcing decision: a behavioral perspective, a replication of david hall teses." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2015. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/5224.

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Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-05-02T17:58:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Deisi Luana Diel Weber_.pdf: 569327 bytes, checksum: 355337b56ffb691e0e6bd0005f05fc4d (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-02T17:58:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Deisi Luana Diel Weber_.pdf: 569327 bytes, checksum: 355337b56ffb691e0e6bd0005f05fc4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-10<br>UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos<br>This research presents an investigation about the decision-making process regarding Make or Buy, trying to understand which variables most influence this decision to insource some activities, to outsource others, or to better estimate a percentage to combine both. The dependent variable on our research is the behavioral decision-making process, measuring the influence received by cost, quality, and monitoring. Trying to understand if differences between these independent variables influence how managers make their decision in the context of insource or outsource production. In order to test this model empirically, an experiment research was conducted, on the basis of eight different scenarios, which simulate a purchasing decision situation ranging the variables costs, quality, and monitoring of suppliers between High and Low, to understand the relationship of these constructs with the decision-making process of Brazilian managers. It was performed with a sample of 211 students from the Production Engineer course at Universidade do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos). The data was analyzed using statistical technique ANOVA. The results demonstrate that managers consider cost variation to decide about how much to internalize and how much to outsource. They change their choices when quality is higher in their suppliers than inside the company. They also evaluate manager capability to control costs over their suppliers and on their process inside the company. However, they do not change their sourcing decision due to supplier’s monitoring variation, neither when quality monitoring is considered. This issue was already addressed in Hall’s study (2012) conducted in the United States. Thus, we decided to replicate his in Brazil in order to check if in a different environment, with other economic, politic, social, and regulatory situation, the manager will change their decisions. Nevertheless, after comparing both studies, we realize that the same hypothesis was supported in both studies, what means that even in another context the same variables are considered to base managers sourcing decision.

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Medina, Serrano Rubén. "Strategic Sourcing Management - A Multiple Criteria Decision Support Methodology with TOPSIS." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/99670.

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¿Deben las empresas realizar actividades y servicios de fabricación e I+D (Investigación y Desarrollo) por su cuenta o subcontratar éstos a proveedores externos? ¿Qué diseños de cadena de suministro (SCD) pueden ser tomados en cuenta por los responsables de toma de decisiones para diseñar la estrategia más adecuada y efectiva para gestionar actividades externas? Hoy en día, la mayoría de los gerentes eligen la opción de subcontratación para obtener resultados a corto plazo y soluciones para los gerentes de línea. ¿Conlleva la opción de subcontratación una ventaja competitiva a largo plazo para las empresas? ¿Qué criterios deben considerarse para evaluar las opciones de fabricación y subcontratación? ¿Cómo pueden los responsables lidiar con los requisitos de oportunidades y riesgos establecidos en la revisión de la normativa ISO 9001: 2015? Todas estas preguntas han dado lugar a una mayor conciencia de la importancia de la toma de decisión entre la realización de actividades de fabricación en la empresa o la subcontratación de éstas, y especialmente del dilema al que se enfrentan las empresas al decidir entre mantener las actividades de I+D y de fabricación en la empresa o subcontratarlas. Esta tesis presenta los resultados del trabajo de investigación realizado por el autor, con experiencia internacional en los procesos de gestión de abastecimiento estratégico (SSM) y gestión de la cadena de suministro (SCM). SSM examina en detalle las opciones de autoaprovisionamiento y contratación. SSM abarca el proceso de toma de decisiones del abastecimiento estratégico, incluyendo la cadena de suministro (Supply Chain, SC) en términos de competitividad, eficacia y eficiencia. Esta investigación proporciona una metodología de apoyo a la decisión de SSM y SCM que cualquier profesional puede implementar, independientemente del tamaño o sector industrial de la organización. Las decisiones de SCM y SSM son de importancia estratégica para las empresas y deben tomarse de manera estructurada, sistemática y coherente. El objetivo de este estudio es abordar las decisiones de abastecimiento basadas en una Metodología de Decisión de Criterios Múltiples (MCDM) utilizando la lógica subyacente de la Técnica de Preferencia de Orden por Similitud con la Solución Ideal (TOPSIS). El enfoque adoptado en esta tesis es amplio, global y coherente, pero los capítulos son independientes, permitiendo al lector consultar diferentes capítulos según sea necesario. Esta investigación se organiza en siete partes: (1) una revisión de la literatura sobre decisiones de fabricación o compra se realiza en el capítulo “¿Debemos fabricar o comprar? Una actualización y revisión”; (2) un marco para decisiones de fabricación o compra se desarrolla y analiza en el capítulo “Aprovisionamiento estratégico: desarrollo de un marco progresivo para decisiones de fabricación o compra”; (3) el capítulo "Integración de los aspectos de sostenibilidad en la selección de proveedores basado en el ejemplo de una empresa industrial alemana" presenta una serie de criterios de sostenibilidad verificados a través de un estudio de caso; (4) las prácticas de evaluación de proveedores se resumen y analizan a través de un estudio de caso múltiple en el capítulo "Prácticas de evaluación de proveedores sostenibles en toda la cadena de suministro: un caso múltiple"; (5) se desarrolla un marco para las decisiones de diseños de cadena de suministro en el documento "Exploración de las prácticas de la cadena de suministro sostenible: un estudio de caso en la industria alemana"; (6) Exploración de cómo evaluar los riesgos de la cadena de suministro sostenible (SSCR) utilizando una FMEA aplicada en un estudio de caso en Alemania, y (7) la applicación de la metodología Six Sigma para reducer los costes originados por los proveedores externos en un estudio de caso. Esta tesis considera las perspectivas tácticas y estratégicas en relación con las estrategias corporativas e incluye capítulos dedicados sobre cómo configurar una función de abastecimiento estratégico (SS). El texto está enriquecido con gráficos, marcos y ejemplos sólidos de las mejores prácticas de los estudios de caso. Este estudio se basa en las valiosas y esenciales contribuciones de los responsables involucrados en la toma de decisiones y es adecuado para cualquier persona que trabaje en la gestión de compras y suministros, ya que les permite comprender los mecanismos de creación de valor a través del abastecimiento estratégico. Ciertamente esta tesis proporciona pautas de gestión para ayudar a los tomadores de decisiones a: (1) evaluar si la subcontratación es adecuada para su empresa; (2) determinar exactamente qué productos y servicios subcontratar, y qué tipo de diseño de cadena de suministro es más adecuado para la empresa; (3) determinar las expectativas de desempeño mediante la evaluación de proveedores externos; (4) usar un proceso profesional bien definido para evaluar y seleccionar qué proveedores externos están más cualificados para el trabajo; (5) utilizando un proceso de evaluación de proveedores para supervisar y revisar los riesgos y el desempeño del proveedor; (6) así como la implementación de la metodología Six Sigma para conseguir una mejora de procesos. Se espera que los hallazgos y métodos discutidos en esta investigación sean de ayuda en muchas otras actividades de fabricación, particularmente cuando se trata de tomar decisiones sobre las ubicaciones de fabricación. El enfoque descrito en esta tesis se centra en cómo elaborar estrategias de abastecimiento, pero puede estandarizarse y aplicarse en muchas ramas diferentes y proporciona directrices claras y prácticas para mejorar la eficacia de la cadena de suministro. Una de las principales contribuciones de la investigación es el desarrollo de nuevos marcos basados en conceptos de investigadores pasados en los campos de SSM y SCM y su integración en situaciones de la vida real, apoyando a la comunidad investigadora. La consistencia de los marcos y modelos propuestos, así como su factibilidad y metodología efectiva, se validan y verifican a través de diferentes estudios de caso.

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Karamipour, Azita. "Les déterminantes des différents modes d'accès à la technologie : étude de cas de l'Iran." Thesis, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011INPL072N/document.

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La technologie est un facteur important pour obtenir des avantages concurrentiels, par conséquent, les processus d'acquisition, de développement et d'application rapide de la technologie sont essentiels pour les entreprises. Les entreprises comptent sur leurs activités internes de R & D pour maintenir leur compétitivité technologique, mais elles élaborent aussi des stratégies de coopération. Elles ont encore la possibilité de mettre en œuvre des acquisitions ou des alliances si elles veulent croître. En conséquence, une préoccupation majeure pour les chercheurs et les praticiens est «comment font les entreprises pour obtenir la technologie?» Et «quelles sont les sources de technologies que les entreprises souhaitent mobiliser ? Cette recherche examine les facteurs qui influencent le choix de modes d’accès à la technologie (TSM) dans des entreprises technologiques à forte intensité en Iran et de haute technologie tout en décrivant la façon dont ces facteurs influents sur le choix de la TSMs. 167 entreprises iraniennes actives dans quatre secteurs ont été interviewées : la microélectronique et télécommunications (y compris électronique), technologies de l'information, la biotechnologie, et la nanotechnologie. Dans ces entreprises, les tendances à opter pour des développements technologiques internes ou externes à étudier selon différents facteurs dont : la réussite des expériences passées, l’accroissement des ressources technologiques propres, la phase concernée du cycle de vie de la technologie, le degré d'incertitude technique, la qualité des ressources humaines internes et la capacité d’absorption<br>Technology is a top management major concern in order to increase the competitiveness of companies. Thus processes relating to technology acquisition, development and application become strategic key factors. Companies rely on their own R&D activities but also on partnership. Thus, literature points out that the use of technology sourcing modes by itself could create advantages for the firms. Among others technology sourcing modes are: - alliance through technology collaboration, consortium, research joint venture,- acquisition through licensing, R&D sub contracting, technology purchasing. As a consequence academics and practitioners direct their attention toward two main questions: when is it necessary to develop a new technology and what is the best sourcing mode? Thus, this research studies the decision key factors of Iranian high technology companies in the field of technology sourcing. Internal and external variables are investigated including: internal scientific resources, past experience success, absorptive capacity, and, the concerned phase of the technology live cycle, the technological uncertainty

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Johansson, Björn. "Deciding on Sourcing Option for Hosting of Software Applications in Organisations." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, VITS - Laboratoriet för verksamhetsinriktad systemutveckling, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10024.

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Software applications are of great importance in organisations, and performance of an organisation depends on how hosting of software applications are organised. This thesis deals with the question: Why and how organisations decide on specific sourcing options for software applications hosting. The thesis describes and explains sourcing decision-making processes made in the Swedish Post (MeLo) and Jönköpings Kommun (the municipality). MeLo’s sourcing decision resulted in outsourcing of hosting, and the municipality’s sourcing decision resulted in internal sourcing of hosting. Both organisations were distinguished by a decentralised structure to a great extent and showed a huge diversity in software applications used. The sourcing decisions resulted in a change to a more centralised hosting of software applications. The thesis is a retrospective case study based on semi-structured interviews and documents analysis. Concepts from the resource-based view and factors described in sourcing literature are used to analyse these sourcing decisions. From nine theoretical initial propositions 28 propositions are developed about why and how sourcing decisions are made. From these propositions, relations are described and some conclusions are presented about why and how sourcing decisions are made. The main conclusion is that maturity level regarding software applications usage seems to influences the start, the process as such, and the outcome of a sourcing decision-making process. This is explained as the more mature the organisation is regarding usage of software applications the more proactive decision-makers are in the sourcing decision. It is also identified that involved factors can be either influencing or justifying, and it is found that control of software applications usage influences the start of a sourcing decision to a high extent. The findings suggest that a sourcing decision-making process can be described as an irrational decision process that aims at increasing commitment on an already made decision. The study suggests that the less mature and more decentralised the organisation is the more reactive and the stronger influence the need to increase control over software applications have in a sourcing decision-making process.<br>Information och kommunikations teknik (IKT) och hur organisationer väljer att organisera driften av mjukvaruapplikationer spelar en allt större roll för organisationers framgång. Forskningsfrågan i avhandlingen är: Varför samt hur organisationer beslutar när de väljer ett specifikt lokaliseringsalternativ för driften av mjukvaruapplikationer. Avhandlingen beskriver och förklarar lokaliseringsbeslut i Posten AB och Jönköpings Kommun från ett resursbaserat perspektiv. Båda organisationerna uppvisade en spretig och decentraliserad struktur av mjukvaruapplikationer. Postens lokaliseringbeslut resulterade i utlokalisering. Kommunens lokaliseringsbeslut resulterade i en intern omlokalisering. Besluten resulterade i båda fallen i en mer centraliserad drift av mjukvaruapplikationer. Avhandlingen är en retrospektiv fallstudie baserad på analys av semistrukturerade intervjuer och dokument. Begrepp från resursbaserad teori och litteratur om lokalisering används för att beskriva och förklara lokaliseringsbesluten. Från nio teoretiska initiala propositioner utvecklas 28 propositioner vilka tydligare redogör för varför samt hur lokaliseringbeslut genomförs. Utifrån dessa propositioner diskuteras kring relationer mellan varför och hur faktorer är involverade i lokaliseringsbeslut. Den främst dragna slutsatsen är att organisationers mognad vad gäller användningen av mjukvaruapplikationer kan beskrivas som influerande för såväl starten, beslutsprocessen som sådan, samt det slutliga resultatet av beslutsprocessen vid ett lokaliseringsbeslut rörande drift av mjukvaruapplikationer. Detta kan förklaras som att ju mer mogen organisationen är vad gäller användning av mjukvaruapplikationer desto mer proaktiv är beslutsfattare i beslutsprocessen. Involverade faktorer kan också förklaras som antingen påverkande eller försvarande. Kontroll av användning kan beskrivas ha den största påverkan på starten av beslutsprocessen. Analysen föreslår att beslutsprocessen kan ses som en irrationell beslutsprocess som genomförs med inriktning på att förankra ett redan fattat beslut, och att ju mer omogen och decentraliserad desto större inverkan har önskemålet om en ökad kontroll över mjukvaruapplikationer i ett lokaliseringsbeslut.

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Ahmad, Mustaffa Nurakmal. "Global dual-sourcing strategy : is it effective in mitigating supply disruption?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/21046.

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Most firms are still failing to think strategically and systematically about managing supply disruption risk and most of the supply chain management efforts are focused on reducing supply chain operation costs rather than managing disruption. Some innovative firms have taken steps to implement supply chain risk management (SCRM). Inventory management is part of SCRM because supply disruptions negatively affect the reliability of deliveries from suppliers and the costs associated with the ordering process. The complexity of existing inventory models makes it challenging to combine the management of the supply process and inventory in a single model due, for example, to the difficulty of including the characteristics of the disruption process in the supply chain network structure. Therefore, there is a need for a simple flexible model that can incorporate the key elements of supply disruption in an inventory model. This thesis presents a series of models that investigate the importance of information on disruption discovery and recovery for a firm’s supply and inventory management. A simple two-echelon supply chain with one firm and two suppliers (i.e., referred to as the onshore and offshore suppliers) in a single product/component setting has been considered in this thesis for the purpose of experimental analyses. The sourcing decisions that the firm faces during periods of supply disruption are examined leading to an assessment of how information about the risk and length of disruption and recovery can be used to facilitate the firm’s sourcing decisions and monitor the performance of stock control during the disruption. The first part of this thesis analyses basic ordering models (Model 1 and Model 2 respectively) without the risk of supply disruption and with the risk of supply disruption. The second part analyses the value of supply disruption information, using a model with advance information on the length of disruption (Model 3) and a model with learning about the length of disruption (Model 4). The third part explores a quantitative recovery model and the analyses in this part consider of three models. Model 5 assumes a basic phased recovery model, Model 6 assumes advance information about the phased recovery process and Model 7 assumes learning about the phased recovery process. The last part of this thesis investigates the order pressure scenario that exists in the firm’s supply chain. Under this scenario, disruption to one part of the supply chain network increases demand on the remainder resulting in a lower service levels than normal. This scenario is applied to all the previous models apart from Model 1. The models in this thesis are examined under finite and infinite planning horizons and with constant and stochastic demand. The objective of the models is to minimise the expected inventory cost and optimise the order quantity from the suppliers given the different assumptions with respect to the length of supply disruption and information about the recovery process. The models have been developed using the discrete time Markov decision process (DTMDP) technique and implemented using the Java programming language. The findings of this thesis could be used to help a firm that is facing the risk supply disruption to develop its SCRM program. The findings highlight the importance of considering quantitative measures of the disruption and recovery processes, something which is still not popular within SCRM in some organisations.

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Shaw, Susan A. Opportunities for British food suppliers: Product sourcing in the food chain. Institute for Retail Studies, University of Stirling), 1991.

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1949-, Camm Frank A., Hanks Christopher H, Rand Corporation, Project Air Force (U.S.), and United States Air Force, eds. Sourcing decisions for Air Force support services: Current and historical patterns. Rand, 1997.

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Office, General Accounting. DOD personnel: DOD actions needed to strengthen civilian human capital strategic planning and integration with military personnel and sourcing decisions : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Readiness, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives. General Accounting Office, 2003.

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Roberts, Dale. Decision Sourcing. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315576145.

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Roberts, Dale, and Rooven Pakkiri. Decision Sourcing: Decision Making for the Agile Social Enterprise. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Decision Sourcing: Decision Making for the Agile Social Enterprise. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Strategic sourcing management: Structural and operational decision-making / Olivier Bruel. Kogan Page, 2017.

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Bombarda, Pamela, and Elisa Gamberoni. Diagonal Cumulation and Sourcing Decisions. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8884.

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How Should the Army Use contractors on the Battlefield?: Assessing Comparative Risk in Sourcing Decisions. RAND Corporation, 2005.

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The Analytic Hierarchy Process as a Framework for Sourcing Decisions: Management, Operations, and Maintenance of a PBX. Storming Media, 2000.

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Banasiewicz, Andrew D. "Sourcing & Assessing." In Evidence-Based Decision-Making. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351050074-8.

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Banasiewicz, Andrew D. "Sourcing & Assessing." In Evidence-Based Decision-Making. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351050074-9.

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Moyano, Francisco, Kristian Beckers, and Carmen Fernandez-Gago. "Trust-Aware Decision-Making Methodology for Cloud Sourcing." In Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07881-6_10.

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Knol, Arjan, Henk Sol, and Johan van Wamelen. "Decision Enhancement for Sourcing with Shared Service Centres in the Dutch Government." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29863-9_18.

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Zhu, Jingjing, and Shaochuan Fu. "Ordering Decision-Making Model for a Dual Sourcing Supply Chain with Disruptions." In LISS 2012. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32054-5_57.

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Frez, Jonathan, Nelson Baloian, and Gusravo Zurita. "SmartCity: Public Transportation Network Planning Based on Cloud Services, Crowd Sourcing and Spatial Decision Support Theory." In Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_60.

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Tsekeridou, Sofia, George Leventakis, George Kokkinis, et al. "All-in-One Next-Generation Community Policing Solution Powered by Crowd-Sourcing, Data Analytics, and Decision Support: The INSPEC2T Case." In Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22002-0_12.

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Penter, Kevan, John Wreford, Graham Pervan, and Fay Davidson. "Offshore BPO Decisions and Institutional Influence on Senior Managers." In Advances in Global Sourcing. Models, Governance, and Relationships. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40951-6_6.

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Günther, Ralf. "Analysis of fleet planning decisions and financial success." In Impact of Aircraft Sourcing & Financing on Financial Success. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24094-3_7.

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Abdulrahman, Muath, Ciara Heavin, and Gaye Kiely. "Understanding the Impact of Isomorphic Influences on Business Services Outsourcing Decisions: An Institutional Theory Approach." In Digital Technologies for Global Sourcing of Services. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66834-1_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sourcing decision"

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Hanif-ur-Rehman, Hemant Kumar Bamma, Shah Nazir, Sara Shahzad, and Thomas Hodosi. "A sourcing decision model for application maintenance services." In 2017 3rd International Conference on Science in Information Technology (ICSITech). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsitech.2017.8257146.

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Ray, Pritee, and Marnata Jenamani. "Sourcing decision with correlated supplier disruption: An MV framework." In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ieem.2014.7058762.

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Takacs, C., and Alok Chakrabarti. "Exploring the Role of Value in the Technology Sourcing Decision." In 2006 Technology Management for the Global Future - PICMET 2006 Conference. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/picmet.2006.296870.

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Roedder, Nico, Paul Karaenke, and Rico Knapper. "A Risk-Aware Decision Model for Service Sourcing (Short Paper)." In 2013 IEEE 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/soca.2013.54.

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Ni, Guoyu, and Yong Xie. "Ordering Decision in Dual-sourcing Supply Chain with Substitute Product." In 2016 International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology. Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icemet-16.2016.431.

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Kusters, Rob J., Lieven Pouwelse, Harry Martin, and Jos Trienekens. "Decision Criteria for Software Component Sourcing - Steps towards a Framework." In 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. SCITEPRESS - Science and and Technology Publications, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005915005800587.

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Twyman, Nathan W., Jeffrey L. Jenkins, Jay F. Nunamaker, and Katherine Carl. "Knowledge Sourcing and Knowledge Consumption in Computer-Mediated Complex Decision Making." In 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2011). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2011.276.

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Sadeghi, Armin, and Stephen L. Smith. "On Re-Balancing Self-Interested Agents in Ride-Sourcing Transportation Networks." In 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cdc40024.2019.9030043.

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Knol, Arjan J., Henk G. Sol, and Johan P. van Wamelen. "Decision Enhancement for Sourcing with Shared Service Centres in the Dutch Government." In 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2013.164.

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Vaccaro, A., and D. Villacci. "A decision support system for optimal energy sourcing in liberalised energy markets." In 20th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2009). IET, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp.2009.1119.

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