Current studies indicate that buyers can improve lead‐time performance and reduce total inventory‐system costs by … splitting orders between two suppliers. These studies, however, treat transportation only implicitly as an element of the cost … in the decision to procure from either one or two suppliers. A state‐of‐the art model was first modified to treat …

used to analyze and structurally relate the PCEs for Indian automotive component manufacturing industry. Furthermore, the … recommended in the Indian manufacturing environment to broadly control and monitor for achieving the preferred customer status … emphasize and monitor the right PCEs and in turn effectively achieve the PCS from its key suppliers. The findings from the …