Showing papers in "Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management in 2006"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between supply chain vulnerability and supply chain risk and found that supply chain characteristics such as a firm's dependence on certain customers and suppliers, the degree of single sourcing, or reliance on global supply sources are relevant for a firms exposure to supply chain risks.

TL;DR: A new method that transfers the house of quality (HOQ) approach typical of quality function deployment (QFD) problems to the supplier selection process is suggested and symmetrical triangular fuzzy numbers are suggested to capture the vagueness in people's verbal assessments.

TL;DR: This work develops a systematic framework for carrying out the supply base reduction process and uses fuzzy set approach to measure the imprecision of these factors and rank a potential list of suppliers against their performance and capability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors chart the advance in strategic purchasing, characterized by the strategic focus, strategic involvement of the purchasing function and the status and visibility of the professionals, into three stages, and show that firms at the nascent stage of strategic purchasing can achieve better supply integration, a second-order construct composed of four facets of relational, process, information and cross-organizational team integration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an explicit definition of the term offshoring along the dimensions of contractual/legal arrangement and geographic location, and analyse the driving forces of off-shoring on the environmental and company levels.

TL;DR: A review of published research on global purchasing in the period 1990-2005 can be found in this paper, where the authors rely on 123 articles to discuss the fields' conceptual foundations and methodological approaches.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the organizational mechanisms used by MNC headquarters for knowledge leveraging across subsidiaries, especially in the area of purchasing and supply management, based on an in-depth case study, focusing on a chemical company.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have analyzed the factors that shape buyer-supplier relationships and how they influence the traceability of raw materials, and compared the observed links with the conceptual framework derived from the literature in order to build an improved model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the state and development of e-procurement in the Greek food and drink industry, based on four case studies with some of the largest organisations in the industry, is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the purchasing and small company literatures demonstrates limited interest in this hybrid theme and few cross-literature synergies, and the authors report on 16 interviews with small company owners.

TL;DR: In this article, an initial model of how private sector bidders decide whether to bid for contracts is proposed based on an empirical study, and a distinction is drawn between two separate assessments made by potential bidder, the risk of bidding and risk of the project.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critique of the normative, buyer-supplier literature and in addition suggest that the more empirically based literature needs to expand its scope of attention beyond its traditional confines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify four problem areas for establishing service supply relationships, namely, writing legal agreements for service exchanges, clearly specifying service processes to be transferred to suppliers, losing control over the relationship with the customer, and handing over service delivery to suppliers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze Western purchasing in China in order to investigate the motives for sourcing, the specific requirements of the area and, in particular, the base and features of supplier relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a decision-making model that provides support to managers confronted with the choice of whether to maintain production internally, or at least part of it, or to outsource.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the high level of change in supply organizations of large North American companies using data collected from 51 large North- American supply organizations in 1987, 1995 and 2003.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of 8 European manufacturers examines whether supplier parks are an imperative for build-to-order (BTO) using a conceptual framework developed from the literature, and the authors question the idea that simply locating suppliers in close proximity to original equipment manufacturer assembly plants reduces delivery lead time and inventory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a conceptual framework that adapts and extends the Uppsala internationalisation model and apply it to analyse nine case studies of Italian footwear and apparel companies involved in relocating some segments of their supply networks to Romania.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a study of the international purchasing market entry process of 10 industrial SMEs and find that managers of SMEs are often reluctant to source abroad, occurring as a consequence of needs for certain products that cannot be found domestically, high domestic costs, unsolicited opportunities and pressures from owners and customers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the consequences of interorganizational relations at two levels: the micro level of the individual and the macro level of an organization are considered. But the authors focus on whether this shared past and future can preclude problems better when the organisational relations are at the micro-level than at the macro-level.

TL;DR: In this article, an in-depth case study aimed at identifying the effectiveness of interventions in speeding up and/or raising compliance to the intended behaviour is presented, where the effect of mandating system usage is shown to overcome the "benefit imbalance" between individuals and organisational benefits.

TL;DR: This article intends to explore how prevailing functionally designed WBS and WP structures created barriers and to demonstrate how supplier integration can be improved by designing collaborative WBSand integrated WP.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how conflict, as perceived by professional buyers, impacts their ongoing relationships with current suppliers as well as its effect on developing new supplier relations and reveal that having an approved supplier list lessens the negative effects of cognitive conflict in ongoing supplier relations.

TL;DR: Two methods, the self-organizing map (SOM) and text mining, are applied and focused on the logistical decision making of companies, and help to analyse and further improve the deliveries of a company.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compile state-of-the-art research on the topic of global (international) purchasing and look back at the roots of the field and look forward to the contributions in this special issue.