Achieving efficiency and effectiveness in Purchasing and Supply Management: Organization design and outsourcing

Bals, Lydia; Turkulainen, Virpi

doi:10.1016/j.pursup.2017.06.003

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“…and of the procurement function itself. Evaluating supplier relationships (Pressey, Tzokas et al 2007), increasing power over suppliers (Cox, Watson et al 2004), and working together on cost (Ellström and Hoshi Larsson 2017) are examples of supplier management, while procurement management involves decision making on how to source Wilson 1990, Ford, Cotton et al 1993) grouping and prioritizing suppliers (Iyer 1996) and setting up the organization (Lakemond, van Echtelt et al 2001, Bals andTurkulainen 2017). This thesis will, accordingly, take an activities-perspective in the examination of procurement strategy.…”

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“…The procurement organization is a central concept to procurement literature. Different ways of organizing procurement have an effect on how buying organizations gain leverage or explore sourcing opportunities (Yang, Cheng et al 2017), gain capabilities and local insight (Jia, Orzes et al 2017) involve suppliers in working towards higher product quality, shorter lead-times, and lower costs (Lakemond, van Echtelt et al 2001) and outsource part of its purchasing activities (Bals and Turkulainen 2017). A purchasing organization that fits with a purchasing strategy has positive effects on cost performance and innovation performance (Akın Ateş, van Raaij et al 2018).…”

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“…These areas aim to capture the essence of the plethora of interrelated concepts residing within this literature, and, by doing so, the areas support the analysis of this thesis by providing themes and suggestions for preestablished concepts to structure the analysis around. Attention is given to how the surrounding context influences procurement (see Iyer 1996, Masi, Micheli et al 2013, how firms choose to organize around the procurement task (Buckles and Ronchetto 1996, Giunipero and Monczka 1997, Bals and Turkulainen 2017, Yang, Cheng et al 2017, and what activities are engaged in to succeed at this task (Cardozo 1983, Kotteaku, Laios et al 1995, Iyer 1996, Ellström and Hoshi Larsson 2017. These three areas resemble the distinctions made in marketing literature by, among others, Wind and Thomas (1980) (Buying center, Buying decision process, Factors affecting buying center & buying process) and Johnston and Lewin (1996) (different external and internal characteristics and organizational buying behavior, including negotiations and decisions).…”

Section: Figure 1: This Thesis' View Of Procurement and Its Related Fmentioning

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“…Looking at activities, geographical location, and reporting hierarchies, Bals and Turkulainen (2017) have analyzed the task of different organizational elements. Those authors found that tasks vary between different phases of purchasing, and they also found that organizing around the activities performed was a potential means to stimulate integration with service providers.…”

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“…Through organizing procurement around activities, some parts of procurement can themselves be outsourced (Bals and Turkulainen 2017). The make-or-buy decision, thus, not only concerns procurement for other departments of the organization but also procurement management's decision on what parts of procurement to procure externally.…”

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The role of context, activities, and organization, in Value-Based Procurement

Larsson¹

2018

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This thesis explores the adoption of a Value-Based Procurement Strategy. A procurement strategy is value-based when it facilitates procurement to develop attractive value propositions for both suppliers and internal stakeholders. The procurement function, including its activities and organization, and the collaboration with suppliers, are shaped to achieve this goal. SAAB, a Swedish military fighter airplane manufacturer, has been driven to adopt such a strategy by its surrounding context and market position, which demand that SAAB find new ways to attract key suppliers. SAAB responded to this demand by offering suppliers alternative benefits in terms of, for example, knowledge, intelligence, standardization, co-marketing, and prioritization. SAAB offers the empirical opportunity taken by this thesis to explore Value-Based Procurement.A theoretical framework built on literature on procurement in terms of procurement context, procurement activities, and procurement organization informs this study. The framework also encompasses literature on value and value propositions. A value perspective describes well both how SAAB's procurement function has been shaped, and the work that the procurement Värdeerbjudanden är verktyg för att utveckla inköpsstrategi och för att exekvera på sådan strategi i inköps arbete. Denna avhandling fördjupar också förståelsen för värde genom att förespråka en parallell syn på samutvecklat värde för kund och leverantör. Slutligen bidrar den till inköpsliteraturen genom att visa att den köpande sidan också kan erbjuda värde. Denna avhandling bidrar till företagsledare genom att illustrera hur en Värdebaserad inköpsstrategi kan införas och möjliga anledningar till varför den borde införas. Den föreslår också "value actions" som möjliga satsningar på att förbättra Värdebaserad inköpsstrategi.-viii --ix -

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Effects of feedback in manufacturing: A field experiment using smartwatch technology

Kwasnitschka,

Franke,

Netland

2024

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We investigate the impact of performance feedback delivered to front‐line workers through new digital technologies in the manufacturing sector. Our study takes place in a globally operating manufacturing company that employs smartwatches for real‐time control on the shop floor. In a large‐scale and multi‐site field experiment, we examine 29,669 machine status reports to assess the productivity effects of providing near real‐time feedback to workers via smartwatches. We develop our hypotheses drawing on construal‐level theory and its central idea of psychological distance. Initially, we observe production without feedback to establish comparability between treatment groups. Subsequently, we allocate various combinations of feedback to workers in four separate areas in two manufacturing plants. We manipulate whether the feedback is targeted at individuals with psychologically close feedback (“you did…”) or targeted at the team with relatively psychologically distant feedback (“your team did…”). Furthermore, we vary the message framing: positive framing emphasizes completed tasks, while negative framing emphasizes unfinished tasks. Our findings indicate that positively framed feedback, targeting individuals directly, enhances productivity more than other feedback combinations. Our study contributes new theoretical insights into the interplay between feedback framing and targets in fast‐paced and highly automated batch production environments.

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