Journal
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 631-651Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0483(00)00016-5
Keywords
just-in-time; buyers; suppliers; empirical research
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This paper examines the role of supplier development in establishing and managing efficient buyer-supplier operational links. The paper develops and assesses a measurement instrument for operational and supplier development just-in-time purchasing practices, followed by an examination of the relationships between the two sets, and an investigation into whether the use of operational and supplier development practices has a bearing on higher plant performance. A plant-level survey was carried out on a sample of electronics and machinery plants. The study empirically: documents the close connection between the buyer-supplier operational link and the buyer's practices for supplier development; demonstrates that recourse to supplier development programs and their nature depend on the kind of vendor-vendee operational connection; test whether different plant performance outcomes result from the implementing of different operational and supplier development practices. It demonstrates that better-performing plants exhibit more advanced design and logistic links with sources, more formalised vendor-rating and ranking procedures, greater use of organisational devices for supplier-organisational integration and place greater importance on supplier assistance and training. (C)! 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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