...Farhad Nabhani; Christian Josef Uhl; Florian Kauf; Alireza Shokri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new optimisation approach for product variance from the purchasing perspective. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on a case study of a collaboration with a global...

...Tarig Khidir ElTayeb; Suhaiza Zailani; Krishnaswamy Jayaraman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of four drivers, namely regulations (RG), customer pressures (CP), social responsibility (SR), and expected business benefits (EBB) on green purchasing (GP) in the Malaysian...

...Ben Clegg; David Gallear; Abby Ghobadian; Nicholas O'Regan Purpose To date little is known about the actual level of utilisation of digital/web‐based interaction technologies in purchasing and supply management (SM) in the UK. This paper seeks to address this gap in the extant knowledge through...

... practice, this research combined inputs from literature and from practitioners. A review of the general purchasing literature and a specific review of global outsourcing/sourcing literature provided an initial list of costs. Interviews with practitioners from seven manufacturing companies and a consulting...

...Tsahat Oboulhas; Xiaofei Xu; Dechen Zhan Purpose This paper aims to deal with the problem of multi‐plant purchase coordination in an assemble‐to‐order (ATO) environment, when volume discount schedules are provided by each of the suppliers. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses linear...

... streams of literature. © MCB UP Limited 1997 New product development Operations strategy Organizational learning Purchasing Supply chain This paper addresses the field of strategic management with an emphasis on the capabilities approach. We set out to identify some...

...‐based costing Purchasing Process innovation 10 INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS 4,4 This work involved a case study undertaken in conjunction with a single factory of a large British engineering company. Combining Activity-based Costing and Process Mapping: A Practical Study B.M. Amsler, J.S. Busby...