Select a company who is reshoring its manufacturing from global supplier to local supplier. You need to critically investigate the challenges faced by your chosen company in implementing Reshoring. You can use the theoretical lens of Transaction Cost Economics and conceptual paradigm of Supplier selection & assessment to justify your arguments.
The reading this week focusses on supply chain partnerships. The reading list has been
classified into two categories- core and supplementary. The core reading list will
reinforce the conceptual paradigms discussed in the lecturecast and the supplementary
reading list is application of these concepts in theory building and addressing real world
issues. Both core and supplementary reading are composed of journal articles and book
chapters.
Reading List (Core)
Textbooks:
Slack, N., Brandon-Jones, A., and Johnston, R., 2016, Operations Management, FT
Prentice-Hall. Chapter 5.
Journal articles:
Kraljic, P., 1983, Purchasing must become supply management, Harvard Business
Review, Sept-Oct, pp. 109-117.
Reading List (Supplementary)
Textbooks:
Slack, N., and Lewis, M. (2017), Operations Strategy, 5th Ed, Pearson, Chapter 5.
Journal articles:
Zsidisin, G.A., and Ellram, 2001, Activities related to purchasing and supply
management involvement in supplier alliances, International Journal of Physical
Distribution & Logistics Management, 31, 9, pp. 617-634.
Harrison, D., 2004, Is a long-term business relationship an implied contract? Two views
of relationship disengagement, Journal of Management Studies, 41, 1, pp. 107-125.
Requirements: 300
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