Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2005"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified relative power and total dependence for a number of portfolio-based purchasing strategies using data from a comprehensive survey among Dutch purchasing professionals and found that the survey data largely confirmed the hypotheses that were deduced from the literature.

TL;DR: A theoretical review of supplier relationships and risk management, as well as a survey-based empirical study conducted in one case company's supply network, find the exploitation of collaborative risk management and learning is highest among the most strategic supplier relationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how public procurement agencies address establishing and maintaining competitive markets, and identify a need for research on supplier incentives at a market level, on the post contract management of suppliers and as an important sub-set, key supplier relationship management, along with professional development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the use of contracts and governance mechanisms for handling complex procurements involving several actors, and develop a contractual framework arguing that different combinations of incentives, authority and trust should be used to govern such procurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of industry clockspeed and product architecture on recovery options involving repair, refurbishing, or reuse are analyzed for high and low clockspeed situations, respectively, and the demands that recovery activities place on a company's purchasing function are also illustrated.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V/DLR) is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the context and content of a generic supply strategy and discuss its strategy-making process, and explain the role of supply strategy in its managerial context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on similarities and differences in the perception of companies in the United States (7 cases in New York State) and Europe (5 cases from Belgium) on global purchasing opportunities and on how they react to these.

TL;DR: Public procurement partnerships represent a new approach to conducting government acquisition as discussed by the authors and are predicated on the notion that governments today simply lack the requisite knowledge, skills and financing to provide core public services and acquire sophisticated services, IT and knowledge development by themselves.

TL;DR: In this article, the consequences of competitive bidding have on lead time in project-based production, such as construction, were discussed, and suggested procurement practices that reduce lead times for ETO products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the cross-functional nature of the purchasing process in industrial markets and take the view that on many occasions conflicts of preference will emerge between the purchasing department and its internal clients and affect the ability of the organisation to obtain value for money.

TL;DR: In this article, a model for selecting sourcing strategies is presented to make a contribution to the decision-making process related to procurement of facilities management services in the public sector, particularly with reference to local authorities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of an automotive component supplier and its role in a specific vehicle development project is presented, showing how the supplier was a victim of its customer's attempt to "supply chain manage" the project, giving the supplier little control over key activities such as the choice of suppliers of key components and little influence on commercial and technical agreements.

TL;DR: In this article, the types of activities that were associated with meaningful involvement of municipal purchasing departments in the procurement of consulting services in Ontario, Canada are described. And the findings provide a basis for increasing the involvement of government departments in acquisition processes for these services and address some very important gaps in a particularly arid body of research related to local government purchasing.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study about producers of moulds is used to illustrate how their contrasting trajectories in terms of degree of specialisation can be related to the variety found and sought in their portfolios of relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use decision support methodologies to narrow the possible damaging effects of corruption in public procurement in a former Eastern-block country which recently joined the EU, and demonstrate that legal regulations provide a supportive frame and organizational culture can be shaped to accommodate new decision practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings of a research effort that focuses on the relationships among the external communication behaviour of purchasers, individual and contextual factors and the performance in supplier management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of eRAs on the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the purchasing function (TCPF) at three different levels: the process step, the transaction, and the tool integration level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a survey to study the opportunities of success of such a 100% EDI-connected suppliers policy using data from the vehicle industry, and the survey helped them to understand suppliers' responses to such a policy and to provide recommendations to industrial buyers who are seeking to succeed in a 100 % EDIconnected suppliers project, including employing tailored communication strategies and selecting appropriate incentives that take into account different levels of suppliers' EDI capabilities and suppliers' dependence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected quantitative data about the purchasing of IT-products and relations between buyers and IT-suppliers in The Netherlands, together with a team of colleagues.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a qualitative case study of software component supplier relationships and argue that the nature of supplier relationships is influenced by the object and costs of exchange, and also argue that, in markets like software component business, it is essential to pay attention to the development of the whole supply market.