International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 16 Issue 10

Sustaining strategic supplier alliances: Profiling the dynamic requirements for continued development

F. Ian Stuart, David McCutcheon

Investigates the change in requirements to sustain supplier alliances as the relationship matures. Notes that the trend to outsource more materials and services has made firms…

Value chain development: An account of some implementation problems

R.C. Barker

Describes the problems recorded between 1991 and 1995 when attempting to re‐engineer the value chains of a medium‐sized electrical equipment manufacturing company in the UK. To…

The complexity of scheduling in practice

Paul P.M. Stoop, Vincent C.S. Wiers

Successful implementations of scheduling techniques in practice are scarce. Not only do daily disturbances lead to a gap between theory and practice, but also the extent to which…

Vendor development strategies

Subrata Chakraborty, Tiny Philip

Unprecedented changes sweeping the world during the last few years have given rise to the need for the development and adoption of contingency strategies. This requires firms to…

Optimal joint set‐up and calibration policy with unequal revenue from oversized and undersized items

Shaul P. Ladany

Jointly determines the optimal level to which the mean of a critical variable should be set up, and the optimal number of repetitions until recalibration, for the case where the…

A practical heuristic for effective buffer management

Simon F. Hurley

Buffers of work throughout a manufacturing facility enhance throughput. They protect a workstation against variations in processing times and against machine breakdowns of…