Citation:
Marek Szwejczewski, Fred Lemke, Keith Goffin, Manufacturer-supplier relationships : An empirical study of German manufacturing companies, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 2005, vol 25, issue 9, pp875-897
Abstract:
Effective management of suppliers is one of the ways manufacturing companies can
improve their performance. Typically, it has been argued in the literature that
close relationships with suppliers should be developed, in contrast to the
traditional price-driven transactional relationships. However, there has been
relatively little empirical research on how supplier management is applied.