Industrial buying and creative marketing

TL;DR: In this article, an innovative three-phase supplier selection methodology including pre-selection, selection, and aggregation is proposed, in which concurrent screening is used for preselection, the best worst method (BWM) is introduced for selection phase, and material price and annual quantity are integrated with the decision at the aggregation phase.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual study proposes that situational factors such as the degree of product technology, security needs, the relative importance of the supplier, and the purchasers' prior experience with the situation should be taken into consideration when determining the level of risk management in the supply chain.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a first step toward developing quantifiable dimensions of the industrial buying task group, called the buying center, which is defined as a group composition and interaction process.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the general literature on risk and specific literature on supply chain risk was undertaken, and it was shown that the application of risk theory to supply chain management is still in its early stages and that the models of supply chain risks which have been proposed need to be tested empirically.