that logistics influences a manufacturer's ability to satisfy customers and overall performance. The level of manufacturing …

. Several approaches exist in the literature to objectively evaluate suppliers, including analytic hierarchy process and total … supplier selection, while the total cost of ownership is a methodology and philosophy, which look beyond just the price of a … purchase to better understand and manage costs in selecting and maintaining relationships with suppliers. This paper …

tracking performance of suppliers and an appropriate selection mechanism is one of the crucial activities in supply chain …) technique for outsourcing to suppliers and automating the decision making process when selecting them. The development of GSMT …

investigates how German companies are managing contacts with their suppliers. The research was conducted in two stages. First, a …

their customers and suppliers. Lack of visibility across the supply chain together with adversarial relationships between …

large sections of their products in an attempt to focus their effort. In turn suppliers take on more of the design and … assembly of the end product and may also choose to delegate some of their own activities to second line suppliers. These … the partners in the chain. Competition between suppliers is fierce, particularly in view of the fact that the changing …

An empirical study of 57 top‐tier suppliers to the North American automotive industry examined the direct and …