Speaker: Dr. Dileep More, IIM Calcutta
Time and Date: 11:30am, Monday, April 15, 2013
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg. Building.
Abstract:
Supplier management is one of the key components of supply chain management, as companies have realised that to truly deliver superior customer value they must focus on the entire value chain. As such, companies control only a small part of that. A healthy buyer supplier relationship is then one of the most potent components of superior value delivery and delighting customers. Good supplier management starts with the selection of most effective and efficient suppliers from a given pool. The selection criteria could include price, quality and delivery performance among others. However, companies often grapple with the question of selecting the right supplier. The speaker presented one approach to tackle this problem using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that uses an ideal target for each selection criteria and then identifies the best supplier available. This approach was empirically illustrated using the case of an Indian company.
This paper has been published in Int. J. of Logistics Systems and Management, 2012, Vol.13, No.2, pp.230 to 243
About the speaker:
Dr. Dileep More is an Assistant Professor at IIM Calcutta. He has a PhD from IEOR, IITB wherein his thesis won `Excellence in PhD thesis work' award. Earlier he has worked at D.K.T.E college of Textile and Engineering Institute Kolhapur. His research interests include theory of constraints, production and operations management, lean manufacturing and supply chain finance.