Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2003"

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of definitions and classifications of types of risk in supply networks is provided, and a tool is provided and its testing and development in four case studies in the electronics sector is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a grounded definition of supply risk and provide practitioners and academicians a starting point for understanding supply risk, and insights as to how supply risk can negatively affect business operations.

TL;DR: The whole suppliers selection model presented seems to be a useful additional tool inside the final choice phase of a supplier selection process, and how to allow for a simultaneous change of the weights and importance of performance criteria is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how logistics processes can be structured and controlled across supply networks by leveraging co-ordination and integration mechanisms, with consequences for strategic and operational choices for both the individual companies and the whole supply network.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data from the US and the UK that helps us better understand and address issues that are key to managing across independent supply chain partners, and also address some of the barriers to implementing such a supply strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of transaction costs and the importance of trust in relational contracting in the UK defence sector and present a case study of UK defence contracting, in an attempt to assess whether the use of PPPs will necessarily lead to improved economic efficiency, with the normal perils in terms of contracting given information asymmetry, asset specificity and the resulting scope for opportunistic behaviour.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the solutions of experienced practitioners to the problems which have been put forward in literature and point out which measurement methods are possible and which supplier strategies are feasible, including additional strategic movements of commodities within the matrix.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the retailer-supplier partnership through a vendor managed inventory (VMI) system, which not only has the ability to reduce costs, but also to improve service levels and create business opportunities for both parties in the supply chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified the critical factors impacting on the development of purchasing groups and the importance and the nature of these factors change, depending on the developing phase of the purchasing group, as illustrated by the application that they have made of these features to the American healthcare sector.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of reverse auctions on buyer-supplier relationships through six case studies, analysing primarily the supplier perspective through participant interviews, and identified that there are potential benefits for both parties in a reverse auction, which can offer tendering and transactional cost advantages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a classification of managerial spaces where multiple trading partners share critical information using e-collaboration tools and assesses the possible local and global impact on the supply chain (SC) performance.

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental study of formal decision-making models for supplier selection is described, where attention is paid to all phases of the supplier selection process: the recognition of the need for a new supplier, the formulation of decision criteria, the qualification of suitable candidates and final selection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that purchasing and supply management activities contribute to sustainable competitive advantage, and propose a systematic set of criteria to assess whether studied phenomena have strategic impact, and some hints are given for future research directions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the implications on inbound, outbound and sea transportation logistics, leading to the development of a strategic framework for future automotive logistics operations based on findings of the 3DayCar research programme.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a set of statements concerning the organizational role and job assignments of procurement in the light of SCM practice, and suggested that new organisational practices, such as key supply management, team-based management and changing skill requirements of purchasing personnel may be an outcome of implementing SCM practices towards suppliers.

TL;DR: In this article, a new process innovation, vendor managed category management, is proposed, in which a distributor offers the retailers full management of one category that includes assortment forming and logistical functions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the antecedents to free riding behavior in voluntary retail chains and examine whether it is possible to handle the problem of free riding behaviour by the use of monitoring arrangements.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 196 buyer-supplier relationships in the UK printing industry, eight constructs regarding performance, trust and governance were operationalised, and the results of a correlation analysis and a cluster analysis were presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a situation and competence analysis research project is presented to point out possible action areas for improvements and potential competence areas; areas that should be integrated in the company's future strategic work.

TL;DR: The explicitfilter approach is compared to the implicitfilter approach utilised in previous OR research the latter focusing on minimising a cost function and it is much clearer to the designer, both why and how, an ordering system will reduce the Bullwhip effect via the explicit filter approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the performance of purchasing managers with freshmen students and with a statistical formula based on a cross-validated sample, concluding that the formula outperforms the humans, and that experienced purchasing managers do not outperform freshmen students.

TL;DR: In this article, a practical approach to evaluate and plan improvements in a supply relation, consisting of two parts, is proposed, i.e., physical supply, planning and control, organisation and relation, and flow of information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a contract enforcement mechanism for Bulgaria's wineries to secure greater control over the quality of inputs and minimise the possibility of opportunistic behavior, but the desired option by wineries is complete backward integration but attempts to achieve this have been limited by fragmented land ownership, credit constraints and incomplete property rights.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of multi-agent-based simulation experiments were conducted to investigate how factors like task complexity, availability of skills and corporate policies determine the degree to which a firm may benefit from a specific, dedicated purchasing department.