Supplier development practice: Arising the problems of upstream delivery for a food distribution SME in the UK

Shokri, Alireza; Nabhani, Farhad; Hodgson, Simon

doi:10.1016/j.rcim.2010.06.028

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“…Moreira (2005) evaluates the supplier-customer collaborations on the basis of 14 indicators, ranging from the presence of collaborative experiences to the type of relationships. Shokri et al, (2010) emphasize the impact of the supplier development on reducing the defects in supplier quality for a food distribution SME. The authors conducted an empirical study to measure the performance of the suppliers against three key performance indicators of the outsourcing and supplier's performance.…”

Section: Impact Of Innovation On Supply Chain Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

Bigliardi¹,

Bottani²,

Galati³

2011

Int. J. Eng. Sci. Tech

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Supply chains continue to growth in complexity, including numerous echelons and numerous players per echelon. Consequently, a company needs to integrate its activities with suppliers and customers, in order to survive. Innovation is a typical example of activity that a company should share with suppliers and customers. In particular, over the last few years, a specific concept of "open innovation" has been paving the way in the innovation management field. This paradigm describes a new approach to internal R&D management, which assumes that firms can and should use external ideas and internal ones, as well as internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology. The aim of this paper is to provide insights toward open innovation practices in a specific supply chain, the food machinery one, moved by the consideration that there is little empirical evidence of open innovation strategies within this context. By means of case studies and semi-structured interviews, we examine a three-echelon supply chain, thus providing a picture of the adoption of open innovation in the food machinery industry. Results show that the actors that more adopt this new paradigm are manufacturer and customer, although all the three actors investigated agreed in defining the benefits derived from innovation and open innovation mechanisms. From this study, theoretical and practical implications can be derived and transferred to the whole food machinery industry.

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Section: Impact Of Innovation On Supply Chain Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

Bigliardi¹,

Bottani²,

Galati³

2011

Int. J. Eng. Sci. Tech

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“…The application of LSS in academic business disciplines such as financial services (Pandry 2007, Antony, 2007and Delgado, 2010), Human Resource departments (Pandry, 2007;and Chow et al, 2010), information management systems and administration processes (Antony et (Behara et al, 1995) and supply chain management and logistics (Shokri et al, 2010, Nabhani et al, 2009Narasimhan, 2009;and Aboelmaged, 2010) has also been highlighted by the literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Financial services (Pandry 2007, Antony, 2007and Delgado, 2010), Human Resource departments (Pandry, 2007;and Chow et al, 2010), information management systems and administration processes , strategic management and managerial decision making (Friday-Stroud and Sutterfield, 2007), customer satisfaction analysis (Behara et al, 1995) and supply chain management and logistics (Shokri et al, 2010, Nabhani et al, 2009Narasimhan, 2009;and Aboelmaged, 2010) have all been business and management areas that have been targeted by LSS projects and have also been established as either a business programme or an academic teaching context in the studied business school.…”

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LSS, a problem solving skill for graduates and SMEs

Shokri

Nabhani

2015

International Journal of Lean Six Sigma

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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the feasibility of a systematic Lean Six Sigma (LSS) education through the curriculum of business schools to respond to the existing gap between the graduate’s expectation of employability and skill requirements by the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – A UK business school has been used as a case study to conduct extensive module and programme review followed by a semi-structured interview with potentially suitable core and programme-specific module tutors and comparative analysis. Findings – The result revealed a high potential of the existing modules in the business schools equivalent to the private sector training providers to increase the level of LSS problem-solving knowledge and skill for all graduates and improve their employability and productivity for the SMEs. Originality/value – The result of this study highlights the role of LSS to reduce the knowledge and skill gap between the business schools as the source of the explicit knowledge, graduates as the knowledge and skill bearer and SMEs as the knowledge and skill users.

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“…4.1.1 Supplier quality evaluation SQE can be defined as a comprehensive assessment to evaluate a supplier's quality system against the customers' complaints, internal and external product specification and reviewing safety programmes, the performance of suppliers and the satisfaction of customers (Osani 2010;Shokri, Nabhani, and Hodgson 2010). Shrimali (2010) proposed seven steps for SQE which includes identifying critical commodities, identifying critical suppliers, forming a cross-functional team, meeting with supplier top management, identifying key project, defining details of agreement and monitoring status and strategies.…”

Section: Quality Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Osani (2010) emphasises on engaging suppliers in quality systems. Shokri, Nabhani, and Hodgson (2010) proposes establishing effective communication between parties involved in supplier development. Metricstream (2012) mentions closed-loop, integrated quality management system and engaging suppliers in quality systems as critical items of supplier quality.…”

Section: Supplier Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supplier quality development: A review of literature and industry practices

Noshad

Awasthi

2014

International Journal of Production Research

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Managing quality of suppliers is of prime importance in supply chains to minimise costs arising due to poor-quality products and services. Supplier quality development (SQD) is a strategic quality development activity for increasing quality, reliability and efficiency of suppliers. This paper reports results of review on the academic literature and industrial practices on SQD in order to find main concepts, steps, prevalent methodologies, tools and techniques, and best practices. We reviewed 177 papers from years 1980-2013 including 22 company manuals for conducting this study. The proposed review assists readers in developing a better understanding of SQD, involved processes and their key elements, tools and techniques used, challenges in supplier quality management, best practices from academics and industry, and open research problems in SQD that require detailed investigation.

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Supplier development practice: Arising the problems of upstream delivery for a food distribution SME in the UK

Abstract: The paper aims to emphasize on impacts of the supplier development on reducing the defects in supplier quality for a food distribution Small -Medium sized Enterprise (SME

Cited by 30 publications

References 42 publications

Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

Open innovation and supply chain management in food machinery supply chain: a case study

LSS, a problem solving skill for graduates and SMEs

Supplier quality development: A review of literature and industry practices

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