... connections in space and time. The qualities of a CAS and the description of a supply chain as a CAS implies that resilience itself may best be understood as a dynamic and nonlinear concept since resilience is a feature of such dynamic systems (Nilsson and Gammelgaard, 2012). North America Supplier...

... re-use rights only North America Supply chain management Retailing Supplier relations Mixed method Order fulfilment Dating back to the 1970s, the first vendor chargeback appeared in the apparel business (Hays, 2001). Since then, the practice of vendor chargebacks has become...

... contributes to our understanding of how and with whom to collaborate by highlighting the relationships among supplier selection, relationship history, meetings, and logistics collaboration and logistics performance. Supplier relations Supply chain management Logistics performance Logistics...

... to leverage either type of governance mechanism. North America Survey Regression Supplier relations Regression analysis Conflict management Supply chain governance Survey methods Collaboration between buyers and suppliers is frequently shown to have significant positive impacts...

.... This paper contributes to RL theory by identifying the contextual factors that determine the most advantageous relationship between forward and RL, and proposes a novel decision-making framework for practitioners. Supplier relations Supply chain management Reverse supply chain Suppliers Reverse...

... Purchasing Sourcing Supplier relations New product development New product design (NPD) is crucial for companies seeking to extend competitive advantage, to compete on innovation, or to extend the life of their firm (Gonzalez-Zapatero et al., 2016). The failure to bring a new product...

... by learning scholars to the field of SCM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Learning Literature review Supplier relations Innovation Absorptive capacity The final stage, exploitation, refers to using assimilated knowledge to create new knowledge and commercial outputs through...

... Corporate strategy Sourcing Supplier relations Alliances have long been an important aspect of strengthening supply chain integration and providing sustainable competitive advantage. As supply chains embrace the importance of closer alliances, practitioners and academics face the challenge...

... by TCE. These findings are of great importance to companies engaged in strategically important co‐manufacturing relationships, as they demonstrate how “negative spiral behaviours” can develop. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Food manufacturing processes Partnership Supplier relations...

... 2006 Supplier relations Supply chain management Measurement Testing and instruments United States of America Europe Effective supplier selection plays a vital role in creating a competitive edge for a firm and in having a positive impact on its performance. Not surprisingly...

...; sourcing decisions increasingly based on well‐structured analysis of business needs and capabilities; and, the chief motivators being financial and market factors. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Sourcing Manufacturing Supplier relations ...

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... 2001 Terrorism Supplier relations Security Inventory Uncertainty Supply‐chain management ...

.... It is necessary to ensure that selling to these large retail accounts is profitable by determining the costs of serving them. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Supplier relations Costs Profitability Financial information Supply‐chain management ...

... to recognize the potential of working with a reduced supplier base. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Suppliers Supplier relations United Kingdom Germany South Korea Supply‐chain management ...

... a model which can be used to determine whether a partnership is warranted, and if so, how close of a partnership is warranted. © Douglas M. Lambert 1996 Partnering Vertical integration Supplier relations Supply‐chain management Copyright by Douglas M. Lambert. All rights reserved. ...

... of inbound logistics. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Supplier relations Inventory Logistics Just in time Transportation methods ...