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Böris, Elin, and Vendela Hall. "Developing a Methodology for Supplier Base Reduction : A Case Study at Dynapac GmbH." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-119334.

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Dynapac GmbH is a manufacturer of road construction equipment and has historically been acquired and merged with several companies, resulting in an expansion of their supplier base. Currently, they are experiencing a large supplier base within direct material causing a decrease in the effectiveness and efficiency in the management of the suppliers. Dynapac GmbH therefore wishes to lower the number of suppliers in order to obtain desired effects, such as cost savings, reduction of administrative workload, higher control, higher quality and improved communication with suppliers. The purpose of the study is therefore to develop a methodology that describes all the activities needed to successfully reduce the number of suppliers. At the moment, approximately 80 percent of the total purchasing budget is allocated to only 14 percent of the supplier base. The supplier base can therefore be assumed to consist of a high number of suppliers supplying only a few products with a low turnover. Based on this, it can be concluded that the supplier base includes several opportunities for supplier base reduction. The action of reducing the supplier base is perceived as being in line with the sourcing strategy as well as the business strategy and the needed support is therefore believed to be present in order to succeed with performing supplier base reduction. Based on existing research, a conceptual model for supplier base reduction was created. The current situation at Dynapac GmbH was thereafter analysed in order to enable a customization of the model. Interviews were held to obtain input regarding the model and the activities. The overall view on the model was positive and all activities were considered to be relevant to include. Possible customizations of the activities were discussed during the interviews, which resulted in a customized model consisting of activities with either two types of customizations: (1) defined variables or (2) developed processes. Lastly, the model was validated in a pilot test before it was reconfigured and handed over as a methodology. The finalized methodology included a thorough description on how to conduct supplier base reduction from beginning to end, consisting of 14 activities corresponding to five different phases. The first two phases intend to lay the basis for enabling a reduction of the supplier base and the third phase aims at implementing it in practice. The fourth phase consists of analysing the result of the implementation followed by the last phase with focus on continuous improvement of the supplier base.
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Kocher, Ronald Jay. "An analysis of Defense Contract Management Command Springfield's supplier base." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA359697.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.
"December 1998." Thesis advisor(s): David V. Lamm, David A. Smith. Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160). Also available online.
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Pimenta, Handson Claudio Dias. "Diffusion of environmental and social sustainability practices across the supplier base." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2016. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/12287.

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Significant literature on sustainable supply chain management exists but there is a lack of theory explaining diffusion of sustainability practices within the supplier base led by manufacturing firms. In particular diffusion theory is insufficiently developed to characterise the development of sustainability practices in suppliers. The purpose of this research is to establish the conditions for enhancing the diffusion of environmental and social sustainability practices across the supplier base from the buying firms’ perspective. The research design is based on a theory building strategy. The data analysis was carried out based on a triangulation of different sources of data (e.g. 30 interviews with directors or managers of four sustainability leading manufacturing firms from the beverage, cosmetic and textile sector, and an extensive array of documents) and cross-case analysis and application of diffusion of innovation theory (DoI). This research identified environmental and social practices diffused through supplier selection (implementation of requirements), performance assessment and development. This map of sustainability practices provides a unique perspective; hence it distinguishes practices diffused across different supply chain tiers, as well as the mechanism/initiatives employed to diffuse them. The findings suggested that more emphasis was given to environmental practices than social practices. In general, social practices were more related to compulsory level (e.g. human rights) and were evaluated (selection), monitored (performance) and diffused through development (especially educating initiatives) in both 1st tier and 2nd tier. Critical materials suppliers in the 2nd tier were more likely to be engaged by specific procurement teams through the selection, performance and development activities, especially with the aim of meeting compliance and improving performance. The findings also suggested that joint initiatives with critical industrial suppliers focused more on environmental practices. Diffusion of innovation theory was applied to consider different elements that have not been covered in the literature, for instance, emphasis on communication channels and social system elements. The rate of adoption of sustainability practices was directly affected by supporting suppliers in measuring and collaborating in implementing improvements plans, as well as intense educating initiatives. DoI provides a powerful lens to help explain the role of buying firms in the diffusion of sustainability practices. The research provided a more comprehensive view on how sustainability practices were diffused through the supplier selection, performance assessment and development. This work is the first instance of considering intra- and interorganisational factors in the same model for enhancing the diffusion of sustainability practices. Overall, this depicts patterns of the factors and points out the most critical variables influencing the implementation of sustainability practices across the supplier base. This research has the potential to serve as an analysis tool to uncover gaps in activity that could lead to greater adoption of sustainability practices by suppliers, as well as gathering good practice in a structured way.
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Reiter, Donald J. "A study as to the feasibility of the Department of Defense mandating its supplier base adopt Total Quality Management." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27290.

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Chouan, Camille Aliénor Rebecca. "Creating buyer-supplier commitment in food supply chains at the base of the pyramid." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11374.

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This research analyzes the role of relational aspects such as trust, commitment, power usage and interdependence in the framework of inclusive business strategies that engage agribusiness MNCs and smallholder farmers in food supply chains in Brazil. Inclusive business strategies that seek direct sourcing from smallholders in emerging countries have been acknowledged as a promising market-based approach to create social impact and improve the livelihoods of rural producers at the 'base of the pyramid', all the while enabling companies to strengthen their position in local markets and source quality raw materials at lower costs. Studies on this topic widely focus on the competitive and commercial advantages that food companies derive from directly sourcing from smallholder suppliers, presenting value chain models that can be tailored to fit their global business strategy, however there remains little theoretically-grounded knowledge on the inter-organizational and relational challenges of these buyer-supplier relationships. Moreover, little attention has been paid to how asymmetries between MNCs and smallholder suppliers in terms of power, dependence and value-orientation can affect the evolution of these relationships. The objective of the study was thus to describe the factors that enable these asymmetrical partners to build long-term and mutually beneficial business relationships. A grounded theory methodology was used, which was particularly appropriate to examine relationships and collect experiences from the field through interviews of both company executives and field staff and smallholders in three key sectors dominated by family agriculture in Brazil, namely dairy, poultry/swine husbandry and horticultural production. Key theoretical concepts from the field of Relationship Marketing were used to back the results from the field research. The main finding of this research is the importance of going beyond trust-building in the relationship management strategy and designing dyadic partnerships based on mutual interdependence in order to reduce asymmetries and enhance commitment between the MNC and the smallholder.
Esta pesquisa analisa o papel dos aspectos relacionais tais como confiança, comprometimento, interdependência e uso de poder âmbito das estratégias de negócios inclusivos que envolvem pequenos agricultores nas cadeias de valor de multinacionais dos agronegócios no Brasil. Os negócios inclusivos de abastecimento direto por empresas com pequenos agricultores em países em desenvolvimento têm sido reconhecidos como uma abordagem economicamente viavél e promissora para criar impacto social e melhorar as condições de vida de produtores rurais da 'base da pirâmide', ao mesmo tempo permitindo que as empresas reforçar as suas posições nos mercados locais e adquirir matérias primas de qualidade a custos mais baixos. Estudos sobre este tema focam amplamente sobre as vantagens comerciais e competitivas que as empresas derivam do abastecimento direito com pequenos fornecedores, apresentando modelos de cadeia de valor customizados e ajustados estratégias globais de negócios, no entanto ainda há pouco conhecimento teoricamente fundamentado sobre os desafios organizacionais e relacionais da relação entre o comprador multinacional e o fornecedor de baixa renda. Além disso, pouco foco tem-se prestado sobre como assimetrias entre multinacionais e produtores de baixa renda, em questão de poder, dependência e de valores pode afetar a evolução dessas relações de negócios. O objetivo do estudo foi descrever os fatores que permitem a esses parceiros assimétricos de construir relacionamentos comerciais de longo prazo e mutuamente benéficos. A metodologia da teoria fundamentada foi usada e foi particularmente adequada para examinar as relações entre comprador e fornecedor e para recolher experiências de campo em três setores principais dominados pela agricultura familiar no Brasil, ou seja laticínios, avi-suinocultura e produção hortícola. Os principais conceitos teóricos da área de Relationship Marketing foram usados para apoiar os resultados da pesquisa de campo. A principal conclusão desta pesquisa é a importância de ir além da construção de confiança na estratégia de gestão do relacionamento entre comprador e fornecedor e de criar parcerias diádicas baseadas na interdependência mútua, a fim de reduzir as assimetrias e melhorar o comprometimento entre a empresa e o pequeno agricultor.
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Murphy, Michael W., and Michael E. Barkenhagen. "The Sunset Supply Base long term COTS supportability, implementing affordable methods and processes." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/1154.

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This thesis represents a cross Systems Command (NAVSEA/NAVAIR) developed product. The product - the Sunset Supply Base (SSB) system - provides a complete system for addressing the risks and supportability issues involved with Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products in Navy combat and support systems. The SSB system was implemented on three Navy combat weapon systems at various phases of the product development life cycle. The main body provides to the Program Management Offices (PMO) and other decision makers, a high level summary of performance expectations. Appendix A - The Sunset Supply Base Architecture - identifies at a high level of abstraction a collaborative architecture providing a roadmap for design and development of the SSB system. Appendix B - The Systems Engineering Development and Implementation (SEDI) plan - is a prescriptive or "How to" manual describing activities that have been used to successfully implement the SSB system. Appendix C - Business Case Analysis (BCA) - presents the data collected as a result of SEDI plan implementation then addresses the business/programmatic attributes showing the viability and value proposition possible through the SSB system. Appendix D - The Marketing Plan for the SSB system - defines methods and practices necessary to establish the SSB system as the alternative of choice.
Chemical Engineer, United States Navy
Systems Engineer, United States Navy
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Hegde, Pratima. "Supplier Involvement in Product Development for Project Based Industries." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-15836.

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There exists an increasing evidence of benefits with involving suppliers in a new product development activity in the mass production companies. Challenges such as, reduction of a product life cycle, technological uncertainties, and increased cost of R&D activity have made it necessary to extend a new product development activity, beyond the firm’s boundary. However, in a project based industries this trend is not predominant and importance of innovation and suppliers, applies to this industry also. Hence, Objective of the thesis is to establish a framework for involving suppliers for a project based industry. The qualitative research makes use of extensive literature within the field, product development, innovation and project based industry and supplier involvement in product development. Several interviews were carried out for collection the empirical data at the case company, which is a project based organization. Required framework, a result of the thesis is achieved through an extensive empirical analysis.The results show that a value of innovation is different between the project based industries and the mass production industries and it is perceived differently. However, innovation is equally important for a project based industry and it has a potential to include innovation within its processes. On this regard, several challenges and innovation promoting elements have been identified. Project management techniques and disruption in the knowledge transfer are some of the impediments for innovation within project based industries. The thesis provides the suggested framework to overcome these challenges and increase innovation in a project based industry and involves suppliers in its innovative and development activities.
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Hahs, David Allen. "Predicting adequacy of supplier responses for multi-year government contracts based on supplier performance metrics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98981.

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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2015. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2015. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
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Aerospace Company X (ACX) is a designer and manufacturer of advanced aerospace systems and its primary customer is the United States Government (USG). In order to reduce cost and minimize risk, both parties have embraced a multi-year contracting model in which productions agreements are signed for up to five-year periods. This allows for significant cost savings over single-year contracts while allowing for predictable production levels for ACX and its suppliers. At the time of this research, the company was soliciting bids from suppliers for the next five-year multi-year contract. Since this is a sole-source situation, ACX must substantiate all costs to justify that the pricing is fair and reasonable. Costs of purchased hardware are substantiated through three primary means: competition, commerciality, and cost-price analysis. Competition is preferred because the pricing can be justified by free-market forces. However, due to intellectual property rights or unique capabilities, suppliers are often contracted as sole-source. The supplier then can claim commerciality (i.e. the part is for sale commercially) or submit for a complete cost review of material, labor, and overhead rates. In some cases the supplier will not release this data to ACX and a government agency performs the review. The success of the cost substantiation phase hinges on getting complete and accurate data from suppliers in a timely manner. This thesis explores the challenges of obtaining cost data from suppliers and proposes recommendations that can be applied to general supplier management situations. First, a metric of proposal adequacy is developed and used to score the adequacy of each received bid. These scores are then analyzed to determine if there is any correlation with the existing enterprise ACX supplier rating system. Finally, recommendations for process improvements are made which focused on communication, IT systems, and standard work.
by David Allen Hahs.
M.B.A.
S.M.
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Moser, Roger. "Strategic purchasing and supply management a strategy-based selection of suppliers /." Wiesbaden : Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, 2007. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10231758.

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Moser, Roger. "Strategic purchasing and supply management a strategy-based selection of suppliers /." Wiesbaden : Dt. Univ.-Verl, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5404-2.

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Brown, Adam J. "DEVELOPMENT OF A SUPPLIER SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR INCREASED RESILIENCE AND ROBUSTNESS: A STUDY USING AGENT BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/me_etds/100.

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Supply chain management is a complex process requiring the coordination of numerous decisions in the attempt to balance often-conflicting objectives such as quality, cost, and on-time delivery. To meet these and other objectives, a focal company must develop organized systems for establishing and managing its supplier relationships. A reliable, decision-support tool is needed for selecting the best procurement strategy for each supplier, given knowledge of the existing sourcing environment. Supplier segmentation is a well-established and resource-efficient tool used to identify procurement strategies for groups of suppliers with similar characteristics. However, the existing methods of segmentation generally select strategies that optimize performance during normal operating conditions, and do not explicitly consider the effects of the chosen strategy on the supply chain’s ability to respond to disruption. As a supply chain expands in complexity and scale, its exposure to sources of major disruption like natural disasters, labor strikes, and changing government regulations also increases. With increased exposure to disruption, it becomes necessary for supply chains to build in resilience and robustness in the attempt to guard against these types of events. This work argues that the potential impacts of disruption should be considered during the establishment of day-to-day procurement strategy, and not solely in the development of posterior action plans. In this work, a case study of a laser printer supply chain is used as a context for studying the effects of different supplier segmentation methods. The system is examined using agent-based modeling and simulation with the objective of measuring disruption impact, given a set of initial conditions. Through insights gained in examination of the results, this work seeks to derive a set of improved rules for segmentation procedure whereby the best strategy for resilience and robustness for any supplier can be identified given a set of the observable supplier characteristics.
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Chancasanampa-Mandujano, Jesenia, Karla Espinoza-Poblete, Juan Sotelo-Raffo, Jose Maria Alvarez, and Carlos Raymundo-Ibañez. "Inventory management model based on a stock control system and a kraljic matrix to reduce raw materials inventory." Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656253.

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This research project proposes a supply management model in a consumer goods company in Lima, Peru, to improve stock control and avoid raw materials stockouts and overstock. A Kraljic matrix was used to identify products based on their criticality considering material segmentation, warehouse capacity and times, and ABC segmentation to classify products on each quadrant of the matrix. This project also focuses on defining purchasing and supply strategies in each quadrant of the matrix. This model involves the development of three processes that are related to a new purchasing strategy: economic order quantity, lot-for-lot ordering, and just in time. This new system is based on a more accurate inventory because continuous improvement attracts employees’ attention and engages them in reducing the number of manual notifications made by operators every month. Moreover, after implementing the new procedure for recording inventories, the inventory record was 87% accurate, whereas, in the past, the inventory was not counted and was performed by employees of other areas.
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Cheng, Zhanping. "Value based management of supplier relationships and supply contracts : quantitative modeling, valuation and portfolio optimization based on financial investment theories /." Lohmar : Eul, 2009. http://d-nb.info/997314826/04.

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Jepsen, Brian. "Norm-based bilateral governance and dependence symmetries in buyer-supplier dyads in the Norwegian oil industry." Thesis, Brunel University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302575.

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Wang, Qingsu 1952. "Management of continuous system models in DEVS-SCHEME: Time windows for event-based control." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291950.

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This thesis describes the design and implementation of an extended knowledge-based modeling and simulation environment, in which the management of continuous-time models in DEVS-SCHEME is realized to meet the requirements of the modeling and simulation of a robot-managed laboratory aboard the forthcoming Space Station Freedom. The modular hierarchical modeling scheme is preserved in the continuous models by using DYMOLA, a continuous modeling language, as a bridge between the abstracted DEVS models and the continuous simulation language code (in DESIRE). Through operations on the System Entity Structure (SES), a knowledge representation scheme, models at different granularity levels are generated. Time-windows can be obtained by manipulating a pruned SES. These time windows can be used to generate an equivalent discrete-event model at a coarser granularity. Therefore, an event-based intelligent control strategy can be realized in this knowledge-based multi-facetted modeling environment. Continuous-time and discrete-event modeling and simulation can be merged with AI techniques.
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Hassanzadeh, Soheil. "A cloud manufacturing based approach to suppliers selection and its implementation and application perspectives." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12688.

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Multi-service outsourcing has become an important business approach since it can significantly reduce service cost, shorten waiting time, improve the customer satisfaction and enhance the firm’s core competence. In fact, on-demand cloud resources can lead manufacturers to improve their business processes and use an integrated and intelligent supply chain network. In addition, cloud manufacturing, as an emerging manufacturing system technology, will likely enable small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to move towards using dynamic scalability and ‘free’ available data resources in a virtual manner. Although there has been some research in these areas, there is still a lack of proper cloud based solutions for the whole manufacturing supply chain network. In addition, of the research papers studied, only a few reviewed and implemented the cloud based supply chain from a decision-making point of view, especially in suppliers evaluation and selection studies. Most studies only focused on cloud-based supply chain definitions, architectures, applications, advantages and limitations which can be offered to SMEs. Hence, a comprehensive research study to find an optimum set of suppliers for a number of goods and services required for a project within the cloud manufacturing context is necessary. Providing real and multi-way relationships through a suppliers selection process based on an intelligent cloud-based manufacturing supply chain network, by using the Internet, is the main aim of this research. The research has an emphasis on multi-criteria decision making approach. The proposed model is based on ‘Goal Integer 0-1 Programming’ method for the suppliers selection part and ‘Linear Programming’ method for the project planning part. The proposed framework consists of four modules, namely a) multi-criteria module, b) bidding module, c) optimisation module, and d) learning module. Learning module allows the model to learn about the suppliers’ past performance over the course of the system’s life. Average performance measures are calculated over a moving fixed period, results of which are stored in a ‘dynamic memory’ element as linked to the suppliers’ database. The methodological approach is validated based on a case study in the oil and gas industry, characterised by 29 services linked together in a network structure, 108 suppliers, and 128 proposals for the services. The case study covers a variety of services from designing to manufacturing and delivery. On the implementation side, a cloud manufacturing based suppliers selection system (OPTiSupply.uk®) is designed and uploaded on the virtual server of Amazon EC2. The system enables customers and suppliers to offer and receive various services on the Web. Apart from the user interface functionality, the system also allows interaction with the MS-Excel© based data and the associated mathematical programming.
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Kucuk, Carullah Y. "After-Sales Service Contracting for Excellence in Life-Cycle Cost Management: Numerical Experiments and Systematic Review of Analytical Models." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707412/.

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This research adds to the literature and provides insight to practice via three essays that increase understanding about the applications and consequences of the two new approaches to the after-sales service governance: warranty contract and performance-based contracts. First, we attempted to enhance our knowledge of the modeling of the after-sales service process. In the first essay, the research papers with analytical models of after-sales services to present current trends, issues, and future research directions in the literature are classified. In the second essay, the effect of the warranty contract on the supplier's product quality improvement efforts in the context of capital goods is examined. Three sets of optimization models reveal that the existence of a warranty improves product quality. In the third essay, the performance-based contract is examined in the context of the warranty contract. The numerical experimentations conducted demonstrate that the performance-based contract is superior to the warranty contract in terms of the supplier's product quality efforts and the customer's total cost of after-sales services. The alignment of incentives based on the product performance tackles the issues presented in the traditional after-sales service contracting. Collectively, the three studies presented in this research expand our understanding of after-sales service contracts. Thus, the research presents managerial implications and adds to the existing body of knowledge in after-sales service research.
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Nicholson, Carolyn Young. "Communication strategy development in supplier-based environmental uncertainty: the mediating effects of transaction form and interpersonal exchange norms." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40418.

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Ahmadi, Ehsan. "Optimization-based Decision Support Tools for Managing Surgical Supplies and Sterile Instruments." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1564482727428522.

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Paradela, Dominguez Aguilar Astridh. "Minimizing Transaction Costs in Project-Based Organizations: A case study on suppliers’ engagements in delivery projects in the Swedish Construction Industry." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-31712.

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In this changing world, companies have had to learn how to formulate and implement their strategies through projects and organizational structures in order to successfully face threats and opportunities. However, the management of multiple projects is not easy and due to this complexity, a new type of organization has emerged, called Multiproject organization. Depending to its characteristics, this new organization can be classified in project oriented (POO) or project based (PBO) (Arvidsson, 2009).

Before to execute a project, the organization needs to evaluate its resources and decide if should buy the project through contractors or make it with its own resources (Müller and Turner, 2005). A Project Based Organization (PBO) which manages multiple projects at the same time through contractors requires to keep a good monitoring and controlling project performance, and to create the best project governance structure.

About these subjects, there have been journals and books published since an academic perspective; but, not all of them have described these topics in a real organization. The aim of this research is to learn how these concepts are applied in a real project based organization, as well as the problems that can be faced and how they have solved them.

The purpose of this thesis is to show how a PBO deals with the governance of its contracts, considering how the PBO estimates the cost of the project, how it deals controlling the contractors and their projects, as well as how it minimizes the transaction‟s (i.e. the project‟s) economic and administrative costs. Based in the purpose of the study, the research question is: “How do project minimize transactions costs in supplier engagements in delivery projects in the Swedish construction industry? the construction of a railway in the north of Sweden and due to it has 130 major contracts, can be considered as a multi-project organization. The Unit of Analysis used is the transaction cost in supplier involvement in project. A single case study was chosen to present and analyze the information from the organization. It was analyzed qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews which were applied inside and outside the company, in order to make a triangulation of the data collected.

The findings explained that the railway company analyzed, achieved to minimize its based organizations (PBOs)” In order to answer, it was selected an organization created for transaction costs on supplier‟s investments during the delivery project phase due to right selection of types of contracts, as well as those process and systems implemented in all the project offices. These process and systems helped it to detect on time potential problems as well as take decisions and covered: the selection of suppliers through the bidding process, the negotiation of contracts, the monitoring, controlling and reporting performance, the closure of the project and the last payments for contractors. The PBO tried to keep a good communication with contractors and at the same time, it developed a team work feeling in which both parts supported each other. It could be observed that : the  it is possible to achieve successfully the organization‟s objectives and minimize the transactions costs during the execution through essential factors as a careful and detailed planning, team work with all the areas involved, communication and hardworking.

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Sajid, Muhammad Saad, and David Gamble. "Desire for truly sustainable suppliers; how to make it work? : Research on Nordic product-based companies." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-173701.

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Background: Research provides insights on the concept of sustainability in the field of supply chain management, by comparing the theoretical concept of SSCM and the practical understanding or focus of brand owners while representing sustainability. Research describes the value and significance of all three elements of sustainability to prevent brand reputational damage. By investigating and identifying effective ways to manage and improve supplier’s sustainability, the study contributes to the supply chain management field. Research aim: The research aims to highlight the concept of sustainability in supply chain management by consideration and integration all three elements of sustainability. More precisely, the study aims to display the importance of sustainability with supply chain partners for brand owners. Also identifying the effective ways that could support brand owners to manage and improve their supplier's sustainability. Methodology: A qualitative approach was followed, with semi-structured interviews that were conducted with five managers across four companies in Scandinavia. Findings: The research identified that product-based brands can improve their sustainability standards with suppliers by monitoring, motivating, and influencing them. Although it is not a simple process and comes with challenges such as certain factors like company size, the location of the suppliers and the relationship with suppliers.
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Ramirez-Mitma, Maricarmen, Jose Rojas-Garcia, Carlos Torres-Sifuentes, and Carlos Raymundo. "A Strategic Lean Procurement Model Based on Supplier Approval to Reduce Unplanned Downtime in a Textile Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises." Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653808.

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In Peru, companies within the textile sector encounter problems such as a decrease in the contribution to an industrial gross domestic product from 10.6 to 7.5%, a decline in financial credits by about 0.7% p.a., and the direct competition of Central American countries across the textile chain. The finishing of fabrics shows the worst performance, with losses of a 38.8% variation in industrial production and a 7.5% growth rate per textile industrial sector. In this scenario, a strategic lean procurement model based on 5S and supplier approval was designed. The lean objective is to streamline workflow in the raw material warehouse that generates excessive lead time to production and leads to unplanned downtime. In addition, supplier approval boosts procurement efficiency and provides strategic value in assessing and planning raw materials to ensure efficient supply. The model is validated through a case study involving a textile small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), and drastic improvements are made. These improvements address the problem of unplanned downtime by reducing its incidence and making economic contributions to the company.
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Hagel, Michael W. "An exploration of international acquisition and Joint Venture collaboration as means for closing strategic deficiencies of automotive suppliers : providing an evidence-based advisory framework for cross-border transactions with US partners." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2018. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/5709/.

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Purpose/objectives: The study considered international Joint Venture projects (‘IJV’) and international acquisitions (for recognition purposes, the term of international Mergers & Acquisitions ‘IM&A’ is used even though mergers are not specifically part of the study) with a focus on automotive suppliers in the passenger car market and regionally on US partners. The objective was to analyse how suppliers in the automotive industry can close their strategic deficiencies through these IJV and IM&A transactions. The regional focus on US partners was chosen, as the USA is a major market for automotive suppliers (volumes/size and innovation-focus). The idea was to identify, categorise, and subsequently analyse decision-making parameters of the engagement in IJV and IM&A. Design/methodology/approach: The research had two main areas: a general literature review and an empirical part with a case study approach. As the research drew on a constructivist perspective, the empirical part of the research was conducted with a qualitative approach. At the centre were three case studies of a major German supplier analysed in depth: one IM&A, one IJV and one ‘hybrid’ transaction. These studies examined good practices, highlights, and challenges through semi-structured interviews. Senior experts in the Business Units and collaboration teams involved in these strategic projects were interviewed. Documentation reviews and the researcher’s own observations flanked these interviews. Findings: Bringing together ideas from the existing literature, and enriching them with insights from projects in the real automotive world, the current study contains valuable considerations about these complex strategic transactions. In order to enhance the deliberate use of these collaborations, the research reflected on the possible alignments of the various parameters and strategic factors. Contributions: The study represents a contribution to the practice and to the academic world, since it is a study to bridge the relevant theory/practice literature with real casestudy- based insights of German-USA inter-firm collaborations in the automotive industry. On that basis, an ‘advisory framework’ was developed to enhance decisionmaking in that area of corporate strategy. It focuses on important factors to consider when engaging in cross-border IJV and IM&A in a specific industry. Research limitations/implications: The research results would need to be further explored in practice, which could be the subject of future research. Limitations from the current study stem from the chosen research design and sample size.
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THATTE, ASHISH A. "Competitive Advantage of a Firm through Supply Chain Responsiveness and SCM Practices." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1176401773.

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Megahed, Aly. "Supply chain planning models with general backorder penalties, supply and demand uncertainty, and quantity discounts." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54011.

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In this thesis, we study three supply chain planning problems. The first two problems fall in the tactical planning level, while the third one falls in the strategic/tactical level. We present a direct application for the first two planning problems in the wind turbines industry. For the third problem, we show how it can be applied to supply chains in the food industry. Many countries and localities have the explicitly stated goal of increasing the fraction of their electrical power that is generated by wind turbines. This has led to a rapid growth in the manufacturing and installation of wind turbines. The globally installed capacity for the manufacturing of different components of the wind turbine is nearly fully utilized. Because of the large penalties for missing delivery deadlines for wind turbines, the effective planning of its supply chain has a significant impact on the profitability of the turbine manufacturers. Motivated by the planning challenges faced by one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, we present a comprehensive tactical supply chain planning model for manufacturing of wind turbines in the first part of this thesis. The model is multi-period, multi-echelon, and multi-commodity. Furthermore, the model explicitly incorporates backorder penalties with a general cost structure, i.e., the cost structure does not have to be linear in function of the backorder delay. To the best of our knowledge, modeling-based supply chain planning has not been applied to wind turbines, nor has a model with all the above mentioned features been described in the literature. Based on real-world data, we present numerical results that show the significant impact of the capability to model backorder penalties with general cost structures on the overall cost of supply chains for wind turbines. With today’s rapidly changing global market place, it is essential to model uncertainty in supply chain planning. In the second part of this thesis, we develop a two-stage stochastic programming model for the comprehensive tactical planning of supply chains under supply uncertainty. In the first stage, procurement decisions are made while in the second stage, production, inventory, and delivery decisions are made. The considered supply uncertainty combines supplier random yields and stochastic lead times, and is thus the most general form of such uncertainty to date. We apply our model to the same wind turbines supply chain. We illustrate theoretical and numerical results that show the impact of supplier uncertainty/unreliability on the optimal procurement decisions. We also quantify the value of modeling uncertainty versus deterministic planning. Supplier selection with quantity discounts has been an active research problem in the operations research community. In this the last part of this thesis, we focus on a new quantity discounts scheme offered by suppliers in some industries. Suppliers are selected for a strategic planning period (e.g., 5 years). Fixed costs associated with suppliers’ selection are paid. Orders are placed monthly from any of the chosen suppliers, but the quantity discounts are based on the aggregated annual order quantities. We incorporate all this in a multi-period multi-product multi-echelon supply chain planning problem and develop a mixed integer programming (MIP) model for it. Leading commercial MIP solvers take 40 minutes on average to get any feasible solution for realistic instances of our model. With the aim of getting high-quality feasible solutions quickly, we develop an algorithm that constructs a good initial solution and three other iterative algorithms that improve this initial solution and are capable of getting very fast high quality primal solutions. Two of the latter three algorithms are based on MIP-based local search and the third algorithm incorporates a variable neighborhood Descent (VND) combining the first two. We present numerical results for a set of instances based on a real-world supply chain in the food industry and show the efficiency of our customized algorithms. The leading commercial solver CPLEX finds only a very few feasible solutions that have lower total costs than our initial solution within a three hours run time limit. All our iterative algorithms well outperform CPLEX. The VND algorithm has the best average performance. Its average relative gap to the best known feasible solution is within 1% in less than 40 minutes of computing time.
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Jun-Yu, Tong, and 童俊毓. "Using a data-based MCDM model for improving green supplier management." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k5jhv8.

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國立臺北科技大學
工業工程與管理系
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Under the influence of economic globalization, the most important challenge for the enterprise is supplier management, regarded as the intangible assets. Due to the developing of the economic and rising awareness of environmental protection, it is essential for modern enterprises to pursue a pollution-free supply chain. Therefore, the green environment performance has become a necessary indicator for supplier management. Supplier management should have appropriate evaluation methods and regularly evaluate supplier performance. This study focuses on the green quality indicators and the improvement of suppliers performance. This study applied Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA), a data mining method, to extract the essential indicators from green quality indicators. Different from the traditional experts survey, we applied Random Forest (RF) to construct the matrix of the initial influence between indicators, and used of the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to understand structure of cause-effect relationship between the indicators. With the obtained influence relationship between indicators, this study further utilized DRSA-based "IF ..., THEN ..." rules to provide improvement strategies for green suppliers and identify the types of criteria for critical projects to save cost and time. With this model, decision makers can improve the supplier performance. In the end, based on the real data from an electronic company, a case study proves effectiveness of the model.
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Chen, Chia-Yu, and 陳家榆. "The Study of the Capability of Supplier Management -- the Resource-based View." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09203807676744290475.

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聖約翰科技大學
企業管理系碩士班
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ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the core resources to make the value networks effective for supplier management, facing the rapid changing environment. The bilateral relations between manufacturers and suppliers have been transformed from competitive antagonism to partner relationships, and so the manufacturers shoud show the abilities to manage their suppliers more cooperativily. The manufacturer need to integrate their own resources and the supplier’s resources to achieve their profit goal, in this case, they need to design a good network value system for creating sustainable competitive advantage. The issue for supplier management is more important for the modern enterprise than the old fashion one. That’s why the study with the resource-based view to explore the following questions: (1) what are the core competence for manufacturers to manage suppliers, (2) how manufacturera to do the supplier classification for their core resources to deal with? and (3) the contingent view for supplier management capabilities. By the method of case study approach to explore these research intents, the results show that the resource-based views had been verified the pracitical value for the supplier management. By the resource-based view, the study proposed the nine different capabilities for the supplier management, and verfied the suppliers classfication. Further more, the contingent theory approach for suppliers management by the conbinations of the nine core resources did work for the value network cooperations.. Keywords: supply chain, resource-based view, core resources, competitive advantage, capability of supplier management
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Hsiang, Shin-Wen, and 向世文. "Determinants of adoption the green product management system:A study based on Supplier of Actton Technology." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28257303591904234669.

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元智大學
資訊管理學系
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In this research, we discuss the factors affecting the green supplier to adopt GPMS. Our country is in initial phase of green supply chain management, so enterprise voluntarily promote the sense of environment management to connect with the international.Our country’s networking industry use as ODM and is necessary member of supply chain. In the case study of green suppliers, we realize our industry under the new management’s model of economic benefits and environmental consciousness,how to use GPMS to enhance international competitiveness. In this research , we only analyze the section of green suppliers,when they purpose to keep the project quality and secure capacity with suppliers for incoming orders, what the relationship between adoption GPMS and environment,information technology, and management individually? In our opinion, our research results can assist internal industry to have a compete green product control capability and form a production network synergy. And GPMS can assist green products’ green process,we believe the research suggestions and results can enhance international competitiveness of our industry.
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Chiungyun, Chang, and 張瓊雲. "Constructing a supplier quality management system based on customer requirement- the printed circuit board industry cases." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37949565050750661355.

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輔仁大學
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In order to response competitiveness in the global market, not only using modern equipment and technology on manufacturing but also increasing the quality of customer requests is essential to reinforce competitiveness of IC Substrate manufacturing. Intensifying and managing the quality ability of supplier is an important issue for IC Substrate and building an effective supplier quality management system in order to fit the customer requirements and maintain the competitiveness in IC Substrate industry. This study utilizes quality function deploymet to establish a strategic model that transfers customer requirements for an IC Substrate to build action schemes that improve supplier quality management. This study focuses on the transfer of customer requirements of the IC Substrate and builds an effective supplier quality-management system that meets customer requirements, such that firms can maintain their competitiveness in the IC Substrate industry. Quality function deployment in this study is a method for integrating and merging customer requirements into the supplier quality-management process. This study applies a two-stage deployment including operation and action planning. Study findings will enhance IC Substrate manufacturing quality when suggested improvements are implemented.
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Huang, Pei-Yen, and 黃培彥. "The Study with Knowledge-Based Linkage and Management Mechanism on the Cooperative Behaviors between Supplier and Buyer." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63012180100399724035.

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Fei, Kuang-Ming, and 費廣明. "The Influences of Supplier Relationship Management on Information-based Purchasing-Using the Pharmaceutical and Medical Equipment Industry in Central Taiwan as example." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86hf32.

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靜宜大學
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Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) has been an oncoming territory in Business Administration, transforming from an indistinct concept, since the information-based of supply chain management in the past few years. This is a part of the automation of commerce and related technological processes to evaluate the implementation of the contact. Looking backward to the researches about SRM, we come to discover that the research results have turned aside to the relationship management between both customers & supplier and upstream & downstream business, but seldom focus on the topics of how to achieve the purchasing value thru SRM in the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industry. The objective of this research is to show the relationship between SRM and efficiency of purchasing. Based on the analysis, long-termed partner relationship, integration of the information system, involvement of the supplier and the consistent factors all have a positive effect on electronic purchasing value. If we cannot resolve the inefficiency that caused by the integration of the information system of the dealers and suppliers, then we cannot amplify the value of electronic purchasing. So we suggest that pharmaceutical and medical equipment dealers should choose those suppliers who has the converged quality concept with the dealers and willing to has a long-termed cooperate relationship, thus we can achieve the purchasing value thru the integration of the information system and elevating the exclusive investing degree of the supplier.
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Huang, Chao-Jung, and 黃昭容. "A Study of Customer Relationship Management based on sourcing criteria of semiconductor equipment industry - A case study of a semiconductor equipment supplier." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53186798901558151119.

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國立交通大學
管理學院碩士在職專班資訊管理組
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Customer Relationship Management, as a typical tool, is widely introduced and implemented in all kinds of industries to improve customer satisfaction with service, create more benefit, dynamically understand the market status and enhance the competitive ability. As the nature of rapid change in semiconductor industry, general service provided by semiconductor equipment supplier cannot fully satisfy the demand of customer（the semiconductor maker）anymore. Therefore, how to help customer optimize the utilization and yield, strengthen related knowledge of technical personnel, develop advanced process and increase revenue of manufacture etc, have been the key factors to cooperation between semiconductor makers and equipment suppliers. Based on the review of related papers, this research starts with the key factors for semiconductor makers to evaluate equipment suppliers and key aspects considered by the industry via CRM flow, then followed by multiple interviews with senior experts in the semiconductor equipment industry. These interviews are executed with discussion, analysis, recommendation and feedback by senior experts in the field, then an optimal CRM model which fits the need of semiconductor equipment industry is integrated and derived. With recognition and agreement by experts in the field for outcome of the research, the CRM flow model is applicable not only to improve the satisfaction of customer practically, and also to enhance the solid cooperation between semiconductor makers and equipment suppliers in long-term. By the key performance indicators and strategic CRM model derived from this research, equipment suppliers are expected to maintain a stable and good customer relationship even under the rapidly changing environment of the industry.
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Li, Yongrong [Verfasser]. "A quality management model for an extended enterprise oriented manufacturing supply chain and its empirical study based on Chinese suppliers / vorgelegt von Yongrong Li." 2007. http://d-nb.info/986016527/34.

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Mohd, Bassam Jamil 1968. "Switch-based Fast Fourier Transform processor." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18192.

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The demand for high-performance and power scalable DSP processors for telecommunication and portable devices has increased significantly in recent years. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) computation is essential to such designs. This work presents a switch-based architecture to design radix-2 FFT processors. The processor employs M processing elements, 2M memory arrays and M Read Only Memories (ROMs). One processing element performs one radix-2 butterfly operation. The memory arrays are designed as single-port memory, where each has a size of N/(2M); N is the number of FFT points. Compared with a single processing element, this approach provides a speedup of M. If not addressed, memory collisions degrade the processor performance. A novel algorithm to detect and resolve the collisions is presented. When a collision is detected, a memory management operation is executed. The performance of the switch architecture can be further enhanced by pipelining the design, where each pipeline stage employs a switch component. The result is a speedup of Mlog2N compared with a single processing element performance. The utilization of single-port memory reduces the design complexities and area. Furthermore, memory arrays significantly reduce power compared with the delay elements used in some FFT processors. The switch-based architecture facilitates deactivating processing elements for power scalability. It also facilitates implementing different FFT sizes. The VLSI implementation of a non-pipeline switch-based processor is presented. Matlab simulations are conducted to analyze the performance. The timing, power and area results from RTL, synthesis and layout simulations are discussed and compared with other processors.
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