Shows that manufacturing companies place a strong emphasis on the role of supply‐chain management ‐ the management of … supplies, suppliers, inventory and distribution. Much of the literature talks about the trend to reduce supplier base. Database … analysis gave empirical evidence of this trend in UK manufacturing companies ‐ 201 companies from different industrial sectors …

, international procurement, acquisition of information technology, manufacturing, and customer service. Therefore, continuously … 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 …

This paper presents an empirical study aimed at investigating the adoption of manufacturing intangible technologies in … small manufacturing supplying firms that are located in late developing areas. Manufacturing intangible technologies are … more or less formalised practices necessary to make hard technologies work, and to improve manufacturing process management …

research opportunities will emerge for academic scholars. These include understanding suppliers as customers; cross … suppliers; global sourcing processes; cross‐cultural values in purchasing; cross‐national rules and regulations; and service …

An empirical study of 57 top‐tier suppliers to the North American automotive industry examined the direct and … show that the three dimensions of ISI – design‐manufacturing integration (DMI), manufacturing technology (MT), and … manufacturing lead time, MT influenced new product development time, and IT influenced customer responsiveness. Process improvement …

interface, the framework can identify and quantify the transfer of operational complexity. Within the internal manufacturing …

Streamlining the supplier base is a common approach in many US and UK manufacturing companies. However, is this … 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 …

One of the more significant structural changes in Western manufacturing industry is the redistribution of “value … 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 …