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RIGIDITIES CONSIDERED: SUPPLIER STRATEGIES FOR INTEGRATED INNOVATION

International Journal of Innovation Management, 2011
Innovation is a strategic issue in need of internal and external alignment. This is particularly the case for supplier innovations, as new product concepts and strategies must cope with supply chain interfaces. Suppliers' strategies are oftentimes confronted by innovation rigidities resulting from a manufacturers' need to manage the integration of ...
Thorsten Teichert, Ricarda B. Bouncken
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Exploiting supplier innovativeness through knowledge integration

International Journal of Technology Management, 2013
Firms are increasingly involving and relying on networks of suppliers and other external partners in their innovation processes. A successful exploitation of suppliers’ technology and competencies is however challenging, not least in situations characterised by technological uncertainty.
Lars Bengtsson, Nicolette Lakemond, Mandar Dabhilkar   +2 more
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Elucidating the supplier integration spectrum on strategic supplier selection problem using an integrated fuzzy approach

2010 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2010
The majority of the existing supplier selection (VS) approaches obtained their optimal solutions based on the operational metrics. This study considers the supplier integration spectrum (SIS) to secure the efficacy of VS. This work adopts supplier's process capability indices and process yields as operational (hygiene) criteria to estimate their ...
C. Y. Shen, K. T. Yu, C. H. Chiou
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Manufacturing competence: a key to successful supplier integration

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2009
Extensive involvement of suppliers in new product development and manufacturing development has often been associated with superior performance. Some authors have also alleged that companies need comprehensive internal competencies, or absorptive capacity, in order to fully benefit from external expertise.
Robin Von Haartman, Lars Bengtsson
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An integrated method for finding key suppliers in SCM

Expert Systems with Applications, 2009
Association rule is a widely used data mining technique that searches through an entire data set for rules revealing the nature and frequency of relationships or associations between data entities. Supplier selection is a significant work in supply chain management. Often, there will be thousands of potential suppliers and identifying a subset of these
Rong-Ho Lin, Chun-Ling Chuang, James Jiann-Haw Liou, Guo-Dong Wu   +3 more
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On the relationship between supplier integration and time‐to‐market

Journal of Operations Management, 2012
AbstractRecent operations management and innovation management research emphasizes the importance of supplier integration. However, the empirical results as to the relationship between supplier integration and time‐to‐market are ambivalent. To understand this important relationship, we incorporate two major recent developments.
Perols, J., Zimmermann, C., Kortmann, S.
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Integration of supplier processes: Supplier segmentation, supplier selection and order allocation in a case company [PDF]

, 2005
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Selection of Suppliers for Supplier Development : An Integrated FD-FIS Approach

International Journal of Operational Research, 2023
Manojkumar V. Dalvi, Vishal A. Bhosale, Anjali S. More   +2 more
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WHY SUPPLIER INTEGRATION FAILS

2016
In a traditional relationship, a salesperson is the sole gatekeeper in the supplier’s relationship with a buying firm. Supplier integration (SI) suggests that each domain expert (e.g., engineering) of a buying firm should directly communicate with the supplying firm personnel, without passing through the traditional boundary spanner—a salesperson ...
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Supplier selection with an integrated methodology in unknown environment

Expert Systems with Applications, 2011
This paper proposes an integrated methodology and its solution for supplier selection problem. A two-stage stochastic programming model and fuzzy TOPSIS methods are consolidated in this methodology. After pre-research phase, in the second part of the methodology, fuzzy TOPSIS is used for ranking potential suppliers considering qualitative data under ...
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