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Showing 1 to 20 of 918 for “"Suppliers"”.
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Risk management framework for evaluating suppliers
… it difficult to complete full analyses of new suppliers. The goal of this research is to provide tools that combine the knowledge of experienced supply chain employees with statistical analysis in a package that will allow any member of the supply chain group to complete a thorough supplier …
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The future direction of Japanese automotive suppliers
… policies of automakers. It is essential that suppliers respond to these changes in order to survive, maintain, and expand their businesses in the 21st century. This thesis analyzes the changes in purchasing policies among major Japanese automakers, based on automakers' expectations that …
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Global corporate telecommunication networks : marketing suppliers' strategies
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992
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R&D project selection : best practices for suppliers
… on R&D project selection for firms that act as suppliers to OEMs. Suppliers performing R&D are faced with significant additional challenges due to the OEM having final say over the product configuration. Suppliers have uncertainties about whether they are pursuing the right technology along with …
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Dynamic benchmarking--a comparative study of automotive suppliers
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Semantic Text Analytics Technique for Classification of Manufacturing Suppliers
… text mining methods using unstructured text in suppliers’ website as the input. For supervised text mining, Naïve Bayes, KNN, SVM, and Random Forest methods are used as the analytical classification techniques. The objective is to classify suppliers into pre-labeled classes based on the textual …
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Managing multi-tiered suppliers in the high-tech industry
… companies to follow as they manage multi-tiered suppliers in the high-tech industry. Our research covered a host of sources including interviews and publications from various companies, consulting companies, software companies, the computer industry, trade associations, and analyst firms among …
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Innovative environmental technologies in automotive painting : the role of suppliers
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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The Behavior of Technology Suppliers in the Presence of Network Externalities
… dealing with the behavior of technology suppliers in the presence of network externalities with a focus on economies of compatibility setting and promotional pricing. Positive network externalities arise when a good is more valuable to a user because more users adopt the same good or …
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Supplier relationship management : value creation via systematic management of suppliers and processes
Toimittajasuhteiden hallinta (SRM) on monivuotinen strategisen toimitusketjun hallinnan käytäntö ja suunnittelutyökalu. SRM tähtää arvon luomiseen johtamalla hankinnan toiminnot systemaattisella tavalla. Tyypillisesti yritys voi luoda arvoa hyödyntämällä SRM:n systemaattisia prosesseja kun se …
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Customer service expectations from alcoholic beverage suppliers in the North West Province
… an organisation buys from alcoholic beverage suppliers has on their service quality expectations. The research also investigated the following aspects: - To ascertain whether customers perceive customer service differently based on their purchase quantity. - To establish the perceptions …
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How to develop suppliers within an Extended Enterprise towards a Digital Enterprise
… had to consider them as piecemeal appendages. Suppliers will have choice and may be supportive, ambivalent, or outright hostile to the extent or pace of digital transformation. They may adopt different strategies in response to the investment, capability development, open access, and other such …
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How do foreign auto suppliers need to compete differently in China market?
… the move of foreign OEMs, many foreign auto suppliers also entered the China market, either to serve their traditional OEM customers, or to look for new business opportunities. Among them, one of the global exhaust system suppliers is very interested in China and invited us to conduct a case …
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Buyers, suppliers, competitors--the interaction between a firm's horizontal and vertical relationships
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Meeting the RFID mandate : options for Wal-Mart suppliers and evaluation methodology
… have announced their mandates asking their top suppliers to become RFID enabled beginning 2005. Meeting the mandate has become a sort of cost of doing business with Wal-Mart for suppliers. The objective of this thesis is to look for ways of meeting the mandate and preventing it from just …
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An analysis of incentive strategies for single-source suppliers to drive cost reduction
… methods for performing a strategic analysis of suppliers. Next an overview of investigating supplier alternatives is provided. The framework then addresses the execution of a contract, which includes writing and negotiating the contract. Finally, contract maintenance is discussed, which includes …
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Logistic regression for a better matching of buyers and suppliers in e-procurement
… to identify better matches between buyers and suppliers who are using an e-procurement platform provided by a US based worldwide online market company. The goal is to enhance the shopping experience of the clients, increase the retention rate and grow the customer base of the company. We …
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ANALYZING THE ROLES OF BUYERS, SUPPLIERS AND EMPLOYEES ON THE ADOPTION OF DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
… this dissertation analyzes the roles of buyers, suppliers, and employees within the adoption process. First, it is found that interorganizational trust has a positive impact on the likelihood of disruptive technology adoption, thus benefitting incumbent suppliers. Second, pre-existing …
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