Essays on Purchasing and Supply Management

Essays on Purchasing and Supply Management
Author: Daniel Kern
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834962279

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.

Essays on Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets

Essays on Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets
Author: Micha Hirschinger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658119462

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.

Three Essays in Supply Chain Management with Demand Dependencies

Three Essays in Supply Chain Management with Demand Dependencies
Author: Kunpeng Li
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 9780549909651

Product demand is an important component of business research. The formulation of demand functions is fundamental in model setups, and can be a direct factor in model results. Demand dependency is an important area in the study of demand functions. This dissertation fits in the demand dependency literature, where many interesting industrial phenomena have been explored, but many others have not yet been studied. In addition, the existing literature mainly focuses on pricing models. Very little has been done on quality design and analysis. This dissertation includes quality as a decision variable in various demand dependency models, investigates some interesting business scenarios, and provides insights to many managerial issues.