Gaining strategic advantages require companies to adopt customer satisfaction as a core
strategy that constitutes the fundamentals of total quality management and just in time …

The purchasing function for some time now has been receiving increasing importance as a
critical supply chain management component. This is mainly due to the significant impact of …

The purchasing function is central to the strategic operations of effective supply chain
management. This centrality is mainly due to the significant impact of material costs on …

The success of Japanese manufacturing firms over a wide range of product categories is
well established; however, one can argue that the success of an individual manufacturing …

In this paper, a strategic supply management reference model for supplier integration in the
supply chain is presented. The model developed is based on the comparative case study of …

This paper makes the case that the role and activities of the purchasing function in an
organisation will be affected by the introduction and development of Total Quality …

This paper addresses the issue of whether many purchasing organisations are presently
attempting to operate within an inappropriate framework. Namely, are they putting structure …

Supply chain management and total quality management can help provide organisations
with a sustainable competitive advantage by improving product quality and service while …

The overriding objective of the present work is to design and analyse the supply chain of a
section of an existing electronics industry which is involved in the manufacturing of …

Customers define the functional requirements of products, while manufacturers need to
respond appropriately and provide the market with products that customers will accept [1] …