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INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 853-861Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2011.06.029
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Key supply management; Key account management; Purchasing function; Supplier portfolio
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The phenomenon of key supply management (KSM) in business companies is far less investigated than the phenomenon of key account management (KAM) which beneficiates. both in practice and in an academic context, from a growing interest. This article is based on the empirical analysis of a sample of 10 international companies which have recently launched KSM programmes or are currently working on launching such programs. It examines the difficulties these companies come up against when implementing such programmes and proposes to organize these difficulties around three dimensions: 1) the difficulties in implementing real supplier portfolio approaches; 2) the narrow view of value co-creation with suppliers, and 3) the persistent lack of integration of the purchasing function with other internal functions within the company. The conclusion of the article is that KSM is far from being a mere symmetric phenomenon of KAM. Several implications are then discussed in relation to the implementation of KSM programmes within companies. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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