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Future Developments: Developing Collaborative Supplier Partnerships

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Jan 24, 2011

Background: Developing Collaborative Supplier Partnerships

Background Collaborative partnerships between companies and their suppliers are a recent development in the business world. Throughout a great portion of the twentieth century the relationship between company and supplier…

Jan 24, 2011

Case Studies: An Analysis of Supplier Evaluation

Case Studies Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group Top Suppliers Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group, BCAG, is a firm that demonstrates excellence in the area of supplier evaluation (22).…

Jan 24, 2011

Expected Costs and Benefits: An Analysis of Supplier Evaluation

Expected Costs and Benefits Benefits Costs h2. Benefits By becoming more competent in supplier evaluation, firms can expect a number of financial and non-financial benefits. Each particular quality sought in…

Jan 24, 2011

Implementation Issues: An Analysis of Supplier Evaluation

Implementation Issues 7-Stage Process 1. Develop a high-level plan 2. Develop a process plan 3. Acquire data 4. Evaluate supplier 5. Select / develop supplier 6. Implement the project 7.…

Jan 24, 2011

Associated Technologies: An Analysis of Supplier Evaluation

Associated Technologies Business-to-Business Networks (B2B) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Extensible Markup Language (XML) Web Exchanges Trust and Information Sharing Given the variety of services and products that the economy provides,…

Jan 24, 2011

Performance Measurements and Metrics: An Analysis of Supplier Evaluation

Performance Measurements and Metrics Categorical System Weighted Point Method Cost-Based System Total Cost of Ownership Approach Frequency of Assessment How Measurements are Used Based on the more current partnership approach,…

Jan 24, 2011

Definitions: An Analysis of Supplier Evaluation

Definitions Economic Order Quantity Just-in-Time Total Quality Management Life Cycle Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Extensible Markup Language (XML) p. Supplier Evaluation is a sourcing strategy used to assess suppliers in…

Jan 24, 2011

Background: An Analysis of Supplier Evaluation

Background Adversarial Model Economic Order Quantity Concept Partnership Model Supplier Evaluation h2. Adversarial Model It was not until the late 1960s that purchasing was considered more than a clerical function…

Jan 24, 2011

References: Developing Collaborative Supplier Partnerships

References p. 1 Burnes, B. & New, S. (1997). Collaboration in customer-supplier relationships: Strategy, operations and function of rhetoric. International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management. Fall 1997; V33. 2…

Jan 24, 2011

Future Developments: Developing Collaborative Supplier Partnerships

Future Developments p. The shift in business today is clearly towards more collaboration between all members of the supply chain. One such development to be seen is more companies undertaking…