Authors: Asta Salmi; Petri Ahonen
The aim of this study is to analyze the use of portfolios in supply network management. We discuss briefly the literature on supply network strategies and supplier portfolios, but we focus on analyzing empirically one case: a Finnish company in the electro technical industry. We also resort to some survey information on purchasing of ten companies in the field. We conclude that the companies have been active in developing close cooperative relations with their suppliers. However, both a more extensive supplier network analysis and a portfolio view that considers the variety in supplier relations are largely missing.Keywords: purchasing strategies, supplier relations, portfolios.
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Publish Year: 2003
Conference: Lugano, Switzerland (2003)