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A DECISION-MAKER-CENTRED SUPPLIER SELECTION APPROACH FOR CRITICAL SUPPLIES
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the supplier selection issue as a way to mitigate
the overall supply risk, through the proposition of a new approach which is as practical as a total cost
of ownership approach and, at the same time, a real support for the supplier selection as a decision
making issue, rather than an additional constraint for the decision maker.
Design/methodology/approach – A risk efficiency-based supplier selection (REBaSS) approach is
developed for critical supplies, that allows a decision maker to consider the procurement-related “risk”
and “investment” for mitigation/exploitation interventions.
Findings – A present total cost profile (PTCP) related to every supplier to be assessed is portrayed,
as a function of the possible investments that can be made to exploit the upside and to mitigate the
downside supply risks. A criterion to prioritize interventions is provided, in order to unambiguously
portray the PTCP. Guidelines for the PTCP comparison by a decision maker are also proposed.
Research limitations/implications – The wide set of data needed can be a limitation when the
available time to perform supplier selection is very short.
Practical implications – The proposed REBaSS approach allows a decision maker to deal with a
quantitative and economic evaluation of the potential suppliers. The decisions are not univocal
because they depend on the risk proneness of the decision maker.
Originality/value – The paper’s view is that REBaSS is the only approach that explicitly takes into
account the variability of the output of the supplier evaluation due to the different attitude of every
supplier to make a planned mitigation intervention successful
HAVE SMALL- AND MEDIUM- (AND MICRO-) SIZED ENTERPRISES TO BE BUNDLED TOGETHER IN THE OHS ISSUES?
No full textDEALING WITH SMES AS A WHOLE IN OHS ISSUES: WARNINGS FROM EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
No full textNot surprisingly it has been shown that there are higher accident rates and larger magnitudes in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) if compared with the case of the larger ones. Some studies suggest that SMEs have serious problems aggravated by limited access to human, economic and technological resources. Moreover, it is now acknowledged that methods developed specifically for Large Enterprises (LEs) cannot be simply transferred to smaller enterprises. Although the debate concerning essentially the size of the enterprises and their corresponding accident rates is ongoing, very little attention is paid to the difference between the Micro- (MiEs), the Small- (SEs), and the Medium-sized Enterprises (MEs). Indeed, in most of the cases, SMEs are bundled together and considered as a whole, in opposition to LEs. In some cases SEs and MEs are studied separately, but only the difference in terms of accident rates is highlighted. Instead, important information in terms of performance and organizational, cultural and economic differences between MiEs, SEs and MEs exist. Within the implementation of the E-merging project (financed by the Italian National Institute for Insurance against Occupational Accidents – INAIL), some differences have been identified on the basis of two existing data sources
Selezione dei fornitori & vendor rating
Full text linkSupplier Selection & Vendor Rating: An approach to their integration.
The lack of creation of shareable knowledge from both implicit and explicit information within a company is one of the worst side effects of a lack of integration between the supplier selection phase and the ex-post vendor rating.
The paper is aimed at providing a scalable approach to implement with low effort this integration, by means of traditional and well-known techniques such as Multi-Criteria Decision Making, What-If analysis, and risk estimation. As a consequence the hard task of a comparison among a past-supplier and a “newer” one is eventually enabled, as shown and discussed in the industrial example
PERCEPTION OF SAFETY ISSUES AND INVESTMENTS IN SAFETY-MANAGEMENT IN SMALL-SIZED AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES: A SURVEY IN THE LECCO AREA
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