Download or read book Essays on Purchasing and Supply Management written by Daniel Kern and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Kern provides an answer on how to implement the theoretical concepts into day-to-day business of multinational corporations through the empirical validation of SCM models and in-depth casestudies. The four essays cover research on inter-firm collaboration, supply risk management, purchasing competences and research on measuring and benchmarking SCM efforts.

Download or read book Achieving Competitive Advantage from Purchasing and Supply Management written by Kai Förstl and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets written by Micha Hirschinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micha Hirschinger emphasizes the importance of foresight on logistics and institutions in particular for effective decision making as distinct research in this context is limited. He applies a systematic and transferable multi-method approach based on Delphi studies and fuzzy c-means cluster analysis to develop profound scenarios for the future. He uses the relevance of information-processing requirements to investigate whether centralization of purchasing organizations increases functional efficiency. The author finally shows how a sharing-economy business model transfer could help to overcome the limited access to factor markets, especially trucks, at the base of the pyramid.

Download or read book Essays in Supply Chain Management written by Bo Hu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation consists of three essays addressing companies' capacity investment and contracting issues. In Chapter 2, we investigate competing firms' demand and sales dynamics in the presence of a supply constraint and brand-level word-of-mouth. The demand dynamics exhibits Bass-type diffusion with positive word-of-mouth only being spread by satisfied adopters. The competition is through market penetration effect. Closed-form expressions are derived for the resulting demand and sales trajectories over a new product's life-cycle. We then present sample applications of our model in analyzing market share, solving capacity investment problems and modeling the threat of a potential entrant. A minor revision of our model leads to a new framework for studying the impact of a potential entrant and the cost of creating a barrier to entry. In Chapter 3, we study wholesale price contracts between a single supplier and a single buyer in the presence of a spot market. The supplier has influence on the spot price. To maximize the expected total profit given the randomness of future spot market conditions, the supplier decides on the contract price and the spot market output quantity. To minimize the expected total procurement cost, the buyer commits to a contract purchase quantity before her downstream demand is known, and buys extra supplies on the spot market in case of shortage. We investigate the problem in game-theoretic models with the supplier as the leader. The supplier may or may not announce the spot market output quantity at the beginning, which changes the buyer's outlook on future spot prices and her response to the contract. We find that when the supplier makes the announcement, compared to when he does not and decides on the spot market output quantity after a contract is signed, he sells less on the spot market and charges a higher contract price. Facing the higher contract price, counter-intuitively, the buyer commits to a larger contract purchase quantity fearing a higher future spot price. Although losing some profit on the spot market, the supplier makes extra gains in contract sales and enjoys a higher total profit, while the buyer expects to pay more in total procurement costs. Numerical studies show that the supplier's spot market power results in lower total output and loss in channel profit. In Chapter 4, we introduce and study Expected Transfer Payments (ETP), which is a function of the buyer's contract purchase quantity and the supplier's spot market output quantity. We search for ETPs that coordinate the supply chain in the presence of the supplier's spot market power. We find two sets of ETPs that coordinate the supply chain. Numerical examples show that those coordinating ETPs not only increase the supplier's expected profit and decrease the buyer's expected procurement cost, but also increase the supplier's total output. In a discussion on pre-commitment, we show that pre-commitment potentially has positive influence on the supply chain performance and that it is not necessarily advantageous for the supplier to pre-commit"--Leaves v-vi.

Download or read book Purchasing and Supply Management on the Road to Sustainability written by Carsten Reuter and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Talent Management in Purchasing and Supply written by Edda Feisel and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Supply Chain Management written by Mahesh Nagarajan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Supply Chain Management written by Yue Jin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Behavioral Challenges to Cross functional Teams in Purchasing Supply Management written by Henrik Franke and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Essays on Strategic Supply Chain Management written by Nils-Ole Hohenstein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Strategic Sourcing and Revenue Management written by Wen Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies fundamental problems that arise during the interaction and collaboration processes between supply chain partners. With focuses on procurement and retailing environments, we utilize both analytical and experimental methods to offer decision support toolkits to the decision makers. In Chapter 2, we study a re-sourcing setting in which a qualified supplier (the incumbent) and multiple suppliers who have not yet been qualified (the entrants) compete in an open-bid descending auction for a single-supplier contract. Conventionally, the buyer would screen entrants before running an auction, i.e., the pre-qualification strategy (PRE). We explore an alternative approach called post-qualification strategy (POST), in which the buyer first runs an auction and then conducts qualification screenings based on the suppliers’ auction bids. We find that using the cheaper option between PRE and POST not only provides significant cost-savings over the conventional PRE-only approach but also captures the majority of the benefit an optimal mechanism can offer over PRE. In Chapter 3, we consider a supply base rationalization process, where the supply base includes both qualified suppliers and potential suppliers whose qualification statuses are unknown. Before conducting a procurement auction that includes either only qualified suppliers or both qualified and all remaining potential suppliers, the buyer sequentially decides whether or not to screen another potential supplier. We characterize the structural properties of the optimal stopping policies for a general class of auction formats and test our analytical results on Amazon Mechanical Turk using human subjects. The experimental results show that the differences between treatments are qualitatively consistent with our theorems, but the average number of qualified suppliers is less extreme than the theoretical predictions. In Chapter 4, we explore a reward-based crowdfunding campaign in which backers arrive following a non-homogeneous Poisson process. We characterize the optimal pricing strategies for different scenarios and summarize situations that no pricing strategy could achieve the campaign target. We also offer a searching algorithm that guarantees to find the optimal price or report no solution.

Download or read book Essays on Product Variety and Supply Chain Management Product Line Pricing Capacity and Inventory Choices written by Zhenxin Yu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies product variety and product lisle design in supply chain management. The first essay explores the impact of customer demand uncertainties on product line design. The second essay investigates risk pooling effect on product line design. The third essay studies effect of economies of scale on product variety.

Download or read book Buyer supplier Related Essays in Supply Chain Management written by Anton Wetzstein and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Two Essays on Optimal Procurement Policies in Supply Chains with Constraints written by Katia Frank and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Four Essays on International Entrepreneurship written by Gordian Rättich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordian Rättich provides with his four essays on distinctive levels of International Entrepreneurship an answer on some of the most essential challenges by shedding light on how social groups, economic institutions and nations manage to overcome the challenges of internationalization and gain competitive advantages.