DocumentCode
375420
Title
The software supply chain for manufactured products: reassessing partnership sourcing
Author
Baxter, Lynne F. ; Simmons, John E L
Author_Institution
Sch. of Manage., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
Volume
1
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Abstract
Suppliers of software are often of strategic importance, and the preferred mode for managing strategic suppliers is partnership sourcing. Using an illustrative case, the paper demonstrates that software supply relationships share many of the characteristics of partnerships without realising the performance levels, and the authors analyse why this situation is sustained
Keywords
DP industry; software development management; software houses; technology transfer; manufactured products software supply chain; partnership sourcing reassessment; performance levels; software supply relationships; strategic suppliers management; Chemical engineering; Costs; Engineering management; Industrial relations; Manufactured products; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Performance gain; Software performance; Supply chains;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN
1-890843-06-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PICMET.2001.952380
Filename
952380
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