Excellence in Management of Contract Manufacturing Relationships

Excellence in Management of Contract Manufacturing Relationships
Author: Tim Brandl
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2022-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3736966768

Contract manufacturing relationships (CMRs) have become an integral part of pharmaceutical supply chains. Solid regulation, technological complexity, and high investment pressure encourage collaboration between client companies and CMOs. Due to the high complexity of pharmaceutical value creation and high relevance for clients, CMRs always move in a field of tension between client control and trust-based self-governance. Against this background, the study investigates the success factors of excellent relationship management of pharmaceutical CMRs. A consortium of seven pharmaceutical companies representing the client and the CMO side is involved in the study to ensure the practicality of the results. First, the study findings give insights into purposeful relationship development amid internal and external dynamics. Second, the study discusses current tailoring practices and provides a method-supported process for conducting meaningful partner differentiation. Third, the study addresses the need for partner alignment to achieve through the concept of the Relationship Gap to systematically include perceptions, business, and partner behavior expectations in relationship management.

Relational Supply Contracts

Relational Supply Contracts
Author: Michaela Isabel Höhn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2009-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642027911

Supply relations are often governed by so-called relational contracts. These are informal agreements sustained by the value of future cooperation. Although relational contracts persist in practice, research on these types of contract is only emerging in Operations and Supply Chain Management. This book studies a two-firm supply chain, where repeated transactions via well-established supply contracts and continued quality-improvement efforts are governed by a relational contract. We are able to characterize an optimal relational contract, i.e., to develop policies for supplier and buyer that structure investments in quality and flexibility in a way that no other self-enforcing contract generates higher expected joint surplus. A second goal is to compare the performance of different returns mechanisms in the context of relational contracting (quantity flexibility and buy-back contracts). Industry studies motivate the presented model.

Sustainability and Social Responsibility of Accountability Reporting Systems

Sustainability and Social Responsibility of Accountability Reporting Systems
Author: Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811032122

This book explores sustainability and social responsibility from the point of view of accountability reporting systems. The contributions to this volume open up discussions about the theory and application of sustainability and social responsibility across various corporate sectors and assists the reader in applying sustainable corporate social responsibility reporting across those sectors. As a central theme, the book addresses how the theory and application in sustainability and social responsibility has different dimensions and aspects which are impossible to apply across different sectors. This point of view is supported by chapter contributions from countries around the world including Turkey, Serbia, Malaysia, United States, South Africa, Italy, China, Brasil, Romania, Serbia, Puerta Rico, Algeria. Academics worldwide will discover in Sustainability and Social Responsibility of Accountability Reporting Systems: A Global Approach the latest developments about corporate social responsibility and sustainability of accountability reporting systems.

International Conference on Management and Engineering(CME 2014)

International Conference on Management and Engineering(CME 2014)
Author: Alex Kong
Publisher: DEStech Publications, Inc
Total Pages: 1908
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1605951749

The aim objective of CME 2014 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Information Management, Innovation Management, Project Management and Engineering. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. Submitted conference papers will be reviewed by technical committees of the Conference.

Trust and Trustworthiness in Supply Chain Management

Trust and Trustworthiness in Supply Chain Management
Author: Yanchong Zheng
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN:

This dissertation studies the role of two important behavioral factors, trust and trustworthiness, in supply chain management. In particular, we investigate an important operations context, forecast information sharing. We consider a two-tier supply chain in which the upstream supplier solicits demand forecast information from the downstream manufacturer for making capacity investment decisions. To ensure abundant supply, the manufacturer has an incentive to inflate her forecast in a costless, nonbinding, and nonverifiable type of communication known as "cheap talk." In Chapter 2, we employ a novel methodology that combines theoretical modeling with experimental methods to show that the non-pecuniary factors of trust and trustworthiness can significantly improve the efficacy of forecast sharing. Specifically, we first show that under standard game theory, the only equilibrium in our setting is uninformative: the manufacturer's report is independent of her forecast and the supplier does not use the report to determine capacity. However, we observe in controlled laboratory experiments that parties cooperate even in the absence of reputation-building mechanisms and complex contracts. We argue that the underlying reason for cooperation is trust. The current literature on forecast sharing and supply chain coordination implicitly assumes that supply chain members either absolutely trust each other and cooperate when sharing forecast, or do not trust each other at all. Contrary to this all-or-nothing view, we determine that a continuum exists between these two extremes. In addition, we determine (i) when trust is important in forecast information sharing, (ii) how trust is affected by changes in the supply chain environment, and (iii) how trust affects related operational decisions. To explain and better understand the observed behavioral regularities, we also develop an analytical model of trust to incorporate both pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives in the game-theoretic analysis of cheap-talk forecast communication. The model identifies and quantifies how trust and trustworthiness induce effective cheap-talk forecast sharing under the wholesale price contract. We also determine the impact of repeated interactions and information feedback on trust and cooperation in forecast sharing. We conclude with a discussion on the implications of our results for developing effective forecast management policies. In Chapter 3, we further extend our research on trust and trustworthiness in supply chains to a multi-country context. We experimentally investigate the country-level variations in trust and trustworthiness between China and the U.S. in forecast sharing. We first note that both trust and trustworthiness and the supplier's capability to solve for the optimal capacity decision affect the efficacy of forecast sharing and the resulting profits. Thus, we disentangle these two aspects with a novel experimental design. Our experimental results first demonstrate the robustness of the pull-to-center bias in both countries when people solve a complex decision problem under uncertainty (i.e., the newsvendor problem). We next determine that Chinese consistently exhibit lower trust and trustworthiness than their U.S. counterparts. In addition, when risk or vulnerability entailed by trusting another increases, the relative decline in trust (measured by the percentage decrease of trust) is more evident in the U.S., whereas the absolute decline is more pronounced in China. This chapter takes the first attempt to manifest the impacts of cultural and institutional heterogeneity between China and the U.S. on strategic supply chain interactions. Our conclusions underscore the importance for firms to devote more time and effort to maintaining a trusting relationship with their Chinese partners than they do with U.S. ones. Chinese companies and government should in turn proactively cultivate a cooperative mindset among the young generation and establish an environment conducive for efficient inter-organization transactions. We also highlight the critical environment (e.g., one with a high overage risk) in which sustaining this trusting and cooperating relationship is most imperative. To conclude, this dissertation demonstrates that non-pecuniary factors such as trust and trustworthiness can have significant impacts on operational decisions. Behavioral operations research is a promising and important research area that not only improves our scientific understanding of human decision making, but also helps prescribe better managerial strategies for environments where non-pecuniary incentives are salient.

Design and Development of a Supplier Evaluation Process

Design and Development of a Supplier Evaluation Process
Author: Andrew R. Corum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

Low-cost sourcing is a strategy many companies, including Pratt & Whitney, use to reduce part costs. As they increase their efforts to resource products to low-cost regions, Pratt & Whitney needs a robust process to effectively evaluate potential suppliers and identify those suppliers that are most capable of satisfying their manufacturing and business needs. Through the development of a Supplier Evaluation Process, this need is realized and a case study is presented that highlights the use of such a process. In addition, the topic of trust in buyer-supplier relationships is also explored. Through the process of developing new suppliers, Pratt & Whitney invests time, labor, knowledge and skills that they have developed to quickly improve a new supplier's business and manufacturing capabilities. The methods that Pratt & Whitney uses to accomplish this task, as well as the risks that they are subject to, are closely linked to what is deemed in the literature as trust building activities. This thesis seeks to understand the role of trust in the buyer-supplier relationship that Pratt & Whitney creates with low-cost sources and to highlight the benefits that Pratt & Whitney realizes as a result of these relationships.

Strategic Market Relationships

Strategic Market Relationships
Author: Bill Donaldson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2007-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470028807

Strategic Market Relationships, 2nd Edition develops the reader’s understanding of the nature, relevance and importance of creating and sustaining relationships as a strategic resource. It takes a managerial perspective to the study of relationships, from strategy to implementation. The first edition was the first text that comprehensively addressed relationships as a strategic issue, and considering relationships as strategic and as a basis for competition is central to this book. In a nutshell, strategic market relationships is the process of analyzing, formulating and implementing a relationship strategy for an organisation. The new edition is being totally restructured in the light of teaching experience with the book and new research since it was published. Most of the existing content will still be there but presented in a new logic. Continues to map relationships from strategy to implementation Text more clearly divided into strategy and implementation parts Continues to focus on close relationships and on the management of relationships Continues with introductory case illustration and end of chapter teaching cases with many new ones All chapter updated with new research since the last publication Revamped chapter on relationship planning including a stronger focus on strategic choice and relationship development New chapter on relationship types/archetypes to develop on the theme of classification and the management of specific relationships New chapter on organizing relationships New chapter on people and relationships E-relationship chapter integrated into chapter on communication and dialogue in a relationship New chapter on channel relationships Chapter on relationship performance restructured around costs and value. Ethics and researching relationships expanded in the conclusion chapter

New Product Development

New Product Development
Author: Robert M. Monczka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Business logistics
ISBN: 9780873894685

As technology continues to advance into new and uncharted territories, expectations placed on manufacturers will continue to grow. To stay competitive, manufacturers need to have a solid strategy to deal with issues such as shortened product life cycles, increased technology, and global competition. However, a growing part of this strategy needs to relate to suppliers and their roles in the product development process. More effective integration of suppliers into a firm's product value/supply chain will be a key factor in achieving improvements necessary to remain competitive. This issue is at the heart of New Product Development: Strategies for Supplier Integration. Written by a team of experts in the new product development field, this book is based on a three year study at Michigan State University that investigated the integration of suppliers into new product development, and provides a complete how-to guide for establishing new supplier strategies.