...Timo Seppälä; Martin Kenney; Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate the issue of transfer pricing and logistics costs to understand trade statistics and the operation of supply chains by using invoice-level data for a single globally sourced product of a multinational...

...Ian D. Blackman; Christopher P. Holland; Timothy Westcott Purpose The purpose of this paper is to define and explore the concept of financial supply chain strategy in a global business environment. The paper aims to illustrate the concepts with a detailed case study of Motorola's global financial...

...Martin Christopher; Carlos Mena; Omera Khan; Oznur Yurt Purpose Global sourcing can bring many benefits to organisations, but it can also expose them to a number of risks. The purpose of this study is to understand how managers assess global sourcing risks across the entire supply chain and what...

... Outsourcing Purchasing Globalization Budgetary control Costs Each country under consideration provides incentives to exporting suppliers in terms of taxes, though their values do fluctuate. Similarly, the US may charge different amounts of duties and customs depending on the manufacturing source...

... collaborative partnerships to steel mills and automakers. Global sourcing is mainly done to reduce production costs, and it has been often adopted in parallel with concentrated purchasing and platform unification among strategically allied companies and regional divisions worldwide. Fiat's “Project 178...

...Lars‐Gunnar Mattsson Globalization of markets is a phenomenon that has received much attention and been extensively debated both at general societal/institutional/cultural levels and at market and business levels. In any globalization process, distribution of goods and services between and within...

...Amy Z. Zeng Although the literature on the strategic aspect of global sourcing is large, detailed studies on this procurement strategy from a process perspective are limited. This paper adopts the process viewpoint and examines the design and management issues associated with the global sourcing...

... strategically about the supply chain, adds a purchasing, not logistics, biased chapter. Leveraging power and transaction based, rather than relation based interfaces are suggested, much in contrast to the other chapters – the role we know Cox likes to play! Edited by Donald   Waters . Global...