supplier management

Integrating suppliers into global corporate value chains is of strategic importance for global manufacturing companies. For successful and efficient operations in these global networks, customers pose specific requirements towards the logistics operations of supplier to realize high delivery quality. Potential suppliers must fulfil these requirements in order to enter into a strategic partnership and long-term cooperation. The aim of this study is the compilation of these requirements suppliers from developing countries, as is India, in supply chains of German manufacturers.

Companies have to determine which real net output ratio is the best for them. In such a case a company must decide which combination of product components and processes should be produced internal or external. There are no methods available to analyze the benefits of an internal or external manufacturing for products with high variety. However, due to the increasing number of variants and the low real net output ratio this question becomes more and more important. Therefore this article will introduce a method capable to support the make or buy decision for products with high variety.