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Multi-criteria decision making approaches for supplier evaluation and selection: A literature review

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In recent years, both the academic and practitioner-based literatures have witnessed a spate of interest in the management of supplier relationships. In particular, the movement from transaction to relational modes of buyer–supplier interaction has been highlighted as a dramatic shift. This article reexamines the nature of management of supplier relationships from the perspective of resource interfaces. We propose a categorization of four different interfaces based on how a focal customer can access its suppliers' resources. The four different interfaces serve different purposes and have various implications for static (productivity) and dynamic (innovativity) efficiency. We conclude by highlighting the costs and benefits of establishing and maintaining different supplier interfaces. The main implication stemming from our analysis is that buying firms need a variety of supplier interfaces to pursue productivity and innovativity objectives.

Managing interfaces with suppliers

Purpose – It is a general belief that using the right strategy for supplier selection and management will ensure the right suppliers who will adequately support the manufacturer to be flexible enough to meet customers' needs are engaged. Yet, there is little empirical evidence to support this view, especially in Malaysia. This paper attempts to fill this need by examining the impact of supplier selection and management strategies on manufacturing flexibility (such as product flexibility, launch flexibility, and volume flexibility).Design/methodology/approach – The population for this study consists of manufacturing firms in the semi‐conductor industry in Malaysia listed in the Penang Development Corporation's directory. Questionnaire was used and each of the 120 companies listed in the sampling frame was sent a copy, out of which 100 copies were collected back. However, only 92 copies were usable. Data were analysed using the multiple regression model.Findings – It was found that the selection of supplier...

Supplier selection and management strategies and manufacturing flexibility

Article history: Received 11 May 2010 Received in revised form June, 14, 2011 Accepted 14 June 2011 Available online 15 June 2011 Supplier evaluation and selection has been a vital issue of strategic importance for long time. Different multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches have been proposed by the researchers in past, to solve the supplier evaluation and selection problem. In this paper, we present a review of various MCDM methodologies reported in the literature for solving the supplier evaluation and selection process. The review is solely based on sixty-eight research articles, including eight review articles in the academic literature from 2000 to 2011. We try to find out the most prevalent approach in the articles and thereby present the future scope of arriving at an optimal solution to the problem, based on the specifications, the strategies and the requirements of the buyers. The study presents that with the change in processes and the requirements, how the approach of the manufacturing industry has shifted from striving for operational effectiveness to the strategic partnership in the dyadic relationship. © 2011 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved

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A review of multi-criteria decision making techniques for supplier evaluation and selection

One of the most critical gaps in the literature is the lack of empirical research pertaining to what attributes of the supplier influence the process improvement of the buyer, and the other is the lack of theoretical framework relating to how and why the buyer's process improvement is affected by the supplier selection factors. This study aims to fill these gaps and empirically explore the relationship between supplier selection and Business Process Improvement (BPI). The results indicate the supplier's Quality, Service, Organisation, Relationship and Cycle Time have relations to the buyer's Improvement Initiative and Customer Focus while the supplier's Cost, as an important selection factor, has no relation to the BPI factors. As an exploratory study, it also intends to refine issues, identify important variables, formulate more precise questions and generate hypotheses for further research.

Supplier Selection and Business Process Improvement: An Exploratory Multiple Case Study

While prior research provides considerable evidence for the existence of a relationship between supplier selection and Business Process Improvement (BPI), it yields little insight into the level of the relationship. By examining the level of the relationship between these practices based on a developed conceptual model, the study contributes to the body of knowledge in both fields by providing the results of an empirical test of the model at different divisional levels of large firms operating in different industries in London (the UK). In general, the data support the proposed research model. The results show that higher levels of Quality, Service, Organisation and Relationship, as well as lower levels of Cycle Time pertinent to the suppliers significantly contribute to the buyers' process Improvement Initiative and Customer Focus. The study is one of the first empirical studies to find the relationship between supplier selection and BPI by representing a new multifactor model.

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Supplier selection and business process improvement

Si bien existen anteriores investigaciones que ponen de evidencia la existencia de relacion entre la Seleccion de Proveedores y la Mejora de Procesos de Negocio (Business Process Improvement - BPI), estas dan poca informacion acerca del nivel de la misma. La presente Tesis contribuye al cuerpo de conocimientos en ambos campos, mediante la identificacion y examen de las relaciones existentes entre los dos topicos a partir del modelo conceptual desarrollado, el cual explica dichas interrelaciones, y mediante la aportacion de los resultados del estudio empirico del modelo, a diferentes niveles operativos, realizado sobre una muestra de grandes empresas que operan en diferentes sectores industriales de Londres (Reino Unido). En general, los datos confirman el modelo de investigacion propuesto. Los resultados del estudio demuestran que niveles mas altos de Calidad, Servicio, Organizacion y Relacion asi como niveles mas bajos de Tiempo de Ciclo de los Proveedores contribuyen significativamente a los proceso de negocio de Iniciativa de Mejora y Enfoque al Cliente del Comprador. Ademas, se deduce tambien que los factores de Seleccion de Proveedores, Relacion y Tiempo de Ciclo, tienen mas impacto sobre un Comprador que tenga un enfoque a Iniciativa de Mejora; y que Organizacion y Tiempo de Ciclo son factores que tienen mas relacion con el Enfoque al Cliente del Comprador que otras variables de Seleccion de Proveedores. En el desarrollo de la Tesis, empezamos revisando la literatura relevante y desarrollando el modelo de investigacion conceptual. Describimos los factores claves de Seleccion de Proveedor y de la Mejora de Procesos de Negocio (BPI), profundizamos en las interrelaciones entre estas variables y planteamos una serie de hipotesis testeables sobre dichas relaciones. A continuacion, discutimos cuestiones metodologicas relativas al desarrollo y validacion de la medida de los constructos asi como sobre la recogida de datos y procedimientos de analisis. Seguidamente, presentamos y discutimos los resultados de nuestros tests que implican modelos de regresion lineal; y concluimos considerando las implicaciones de la Tesis en la investigacion y en la "practica" de la Seleccion de Proveedores y BPI, y proporcionando tambien lineas de investigacion futura en el campo.

Supplier Selection and Business Process Improvement

Any firm in the pharmaceutical industry requires efficient and effective management information systems (MIS) to support managerial functions. Lack of timely access of the management in Iranian pharmaceutical firms to required information due to inefficiency and/or ineffectiveness of current MIS is the problem addressed in this paper. In this study, in addition to describing the current condition of MIS and management practice (MP) of the research environment as an example from pharmaceuticals, the relationship between them is demonstrated and suggestions for improving their condition are provided. The results indicate the efficiency and/or effectiveness of MIS are the outcome of the components of MIS, such as the Communication Mechanism and Archive System, and the components of MP, such as the Organisation and Methods, Performance Evaluation, Records Management and Human Relations. The research findings can be utilised in the areas of MIS design, development and training.

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Management information systems in pharmaceuticals

The Gnosjo region is unique in Sweden and renowned for its distinctive business climate, which is termed a progressive, entrepreneurial and innovative ‘spirit of Gnosjo’. This paper presents a special image of the industrial district relationships in this region by using the corporation as a framework to understand the structuring of business activities with respect to the content (what) and the process (how). The findings indicate viability of the industrial district is based and dependent on economic and social organisation. The paper also suggests possible directions for future policies and research to support the dynamic growth in this region by using an alternative perspective in analysing and explaining the industrial district phenomenon.

The Gnosjo industrial district: a viable corporation

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