Every organization needs suppliers and no organization can exist without suppliers. Therefore, the organizations approach to suppliers and the selection of the appropriate supplier, its acquisition processes and policies, and its relationships with suppliers, is of vital importance, both to...

Purpose - The construction industry is known for the application of traditional production and project management methods. This paper overall aims to demonstrate that the adoption of Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts in construction industry can lead to significant improvements of planning...

Top-down computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are used extensively for analysis of energy and climate policies. Energy-intensive industries are usually represented in top-down economic models as abstract economic production functions, of the constant-elasticity-ofsubstitution (CES)...

During the reform era, the Chinese government has been carrying out strategic industrial policies modelled on those in post-war Japan and South Korea, in the hope of transforming its highly fragmented manufacturing sector into one that comprises a small number of internationally competitive big...

To improve a firm's supply chain performance, it is essential to have a vendor evaluation process to be able to showcase an organization's success in the present aggressive market. Hence, the process of evaluating the vendor is a crucial task of the purchasing executives in supply chain...

Die Technologieregion Nordschwarzwald mit Pforzheim als Zentrum zeichnet sich traditionell durch ihr breites Spektrum an Metall verarbeitender Industrie aus. Im Zuge eines mittlerweile sehr weit gediehenen Strukturwandels haben sich die Unternehmen der Metallver- und -bearbeitung, und hier...