Showing papers in "European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management in 2001"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of decision methods reported in the literature for supporting the supplier selection process is presented, based on an extensive search in the academic literature, and the proposed methods specifically accommodate for buying situations for which few or no decision models were published so far.

TL;DR: The literature base and development of supply chain management from two separate paths that eventually merged into the modern era of a holistic and strategic approach to operations, materials and logistics management is reviewed in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine environmental research in the supply chain management literature in order to establish a framework for current and future development of environmental purchasing theory, which is in a critical position to influence responses to concerns about the natural environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss one of the "user-friendly" alternative multiple criteria decision support systems, visual interactive goal programming (VIG), applied to an original equipment manufacturer's multiple-replenishment purchasing problem.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the skills requirements necessary for effective supply chain partnerships in the UK construction industry and explored current SME skills in terms of their relevance to developing more efficient supply networks.

TL;DR: In this article, a prescriptive framework is developed that suggests how to best manage the risk of losing purchasing leverage when outsourcing, considering the relative volume of the buyer and the contractor, the level of trust, and the concerns of the supplier regarding its price visibility.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of supplier collaboration in the development process is deployed to support the development of a dyadic (or two-level) capabilities analysis of the strategic management of the innovation process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors determine whether the principles of the lean supply model are currently present between an OEM and its key suppliers in the electronics industry and find that considerable barriers currently exist to meeting the requirement of equality between partners and the mutual sharing of benefits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the implications of the resource-based perspective for purchasing and its potential contribution to sustainable competitive advantage and concluded that purchasing typically has no significant strategic role to play, and that the function's activities are operational in nature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the interconnection between global purchasing and lean supply and find that lean supply is affected negatively by global purchasing based on price and thus, price-based global purchasing should not be used for sourcing complex components that require early supplier involvement and intensive engineering collaboration between OEMs and suppliers.

TL;DR: In this paper, three dimensions of collaborative relationships in transactions with external suppliers are analyzed; the level of trust, information exchange and bilateral projects, while there was a significant positive correlation (consistent with the hypotheses) between the change related to the core on the one hand and information exchange, bilateral projects on the other hand.

TL;DR: The authors presented a taxonomy of five 'ideal' types of buyer based on cluster analysis and proposed that future research should seek to match the identified trait clusters with a typology of purchasing contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey on the practices associated with the acquisition, use, storage and transfer of information by a sample of professionals within the construction supply chain is presented, which is influenced by the information acquisition, processing, utilisation and transfer practices of their professional staff (actors) involved in the processes of the construction process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the buyer's influence on a JIT-relationship is contingent upon the length of that relationship and found that when the level of the JIT investment is substantial, hierarchical buyer control relaxes significantly as the relationship increases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new readiness assessment model for the construction industry supply chain, and give examples of its use to assess construction organizations' readiness to adopt concurrent engineering practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, a tripartite survey to local government leaders, chief executives and purchasing managers is used to establish the goals of local government, purchasing's potential strategic contribution and the strategies currently used.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the problems of the UK housing industry and offer solutions to improving its overall performance and competitiveness, and suggest that a change of "mindset", a shift toward process orientation and improved communications, are essential actions that need to be addressed by the UK Housing sector to improve its performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report some empirical observations of the way in which the Spanish auto component industry is implementing supplier quality and reliability practices, and the findings are examined in relation to four hypotheses.

TL;DR: The generic objective of the source selection process is to identify a "capable" source from among those "competent" and "credible" applicants whose performance can be expected to best meet the clients' requirements at an affordable and optimal cost as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the potential pitfalls that lay ahead and the factors the Ministry of Defence will have to take into account in order for them to succeed, in order to bring together all the relevant stakeholders from the MoD, armed forces and industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report an empirical study that has investigated whether there is any substance to these predictions and conclude that public service clients can positively influence service quality by taking great care with the preselection of tenderers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of Feature and Construct Evaluation and Aggregation (FCEA) has been developed, in the search for a link to support the proposition that privatisation has an influence on purchasing strategies concerning supplier relationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how technological convergence, manifested in increased mobility in organisations, changes the way purchasing organizations buy and use telecommunications and IT systems, and analyse how the implementation of mobility in firms is linked to changes in the relationships between units within the buying centre, between the buying center and supplying organizations, and to some extent also between buying centre and its customers.