What is Happening in Supply Chain Management? From Push to Pull through Best Value Thinking

In this paper we take a closer look at developments in supply management. The main change in this discipline seems to be (2011) that cooperation and risk management are taking over the classical silo based way of looking at business. Companies start to learn that transactions block the profits throughout the chain. Or, to put it the other way around, supply chain parties learn that sharing interests is earning much more money and that supply chains become ‘faster, cheaper and better’!Product Innovatie ManagementIndustrial Design Engineerin

Unraveling the complexity of the organizational adoption of electronic procurement: A direction for future research

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Extending the network approach in an organization: The key towards e-procurement adoption

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Adoptie van e-procurement

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Achieving Individual Adoption of an e-ordering applications with a 'benefit imbalance'

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Using digital homework assignments, the case of performance engineering

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Supplier Involvement in Product Development: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Working Paper

The paper reports the preliminary findings of four current case studies on supplier involvement in product development from the respective perspectives of Engineering, Purchasing and Suppliers. The supplier involvement is studied from the viewpoint of how supplier information and knowledge are deployed in the fuzzy front end of product development. The objective of the case studies is twofold. First: to learn more about the conditions under which the search, acquisition and utilization of supplier information and knowledge take place. Second: to explore whether these conditions are affected by tie strength of the information relationships among Engineering, Purchasing, and Suppliers.Product Innovatie ManagementIndustrial Design Engineerin

Towards the best value tender: The smart assessment tool

SMART formulation is an essential aspect of the Best Value philosophy to demonstrate performance, evaluate proposals and is required for the continuous improvements within organizations. Based on an evaluation of projects that have been tendered with the BVP award mechanism, it was concluded that both for the tender documents, as the interviews in the procurement process, SMART formulation allows for significant improvement. This study proposes the SMART assessment tool, which is a straightforward and effective method to assess tender documents on their degree of SMART formulation and is illustrated by application on the studied tenders.Product Innovatie ManagementIndustrial Design Engineerin