Imbalanced supplier-customer relations and how to avoid them
Two main models of customer-supplier contract currently exist – the transactional version where the customer holds the whip hand and simply asks the supplier to deliver a certain product as...
Read moreRefining risk assessment – The Lambda VaR Approach to Market Risk Measurement
This challenge applies as much to the more prudent, rational manager as the more audacious one. The key is to...
Read moreAccounting for Change – the impact of currency fluctuations and discount policies on global supplier management
This may have a knock-on effect on order volume, and therefore transportation and inventory costs. Discount policies can also vary...
Read moreWhere and How to Sell? – The Smartphone App Ad Challenge
Electronic advertising of all types, from e-mailing campaigns and website banners to social media pages and smartphones, are faced with...
Read moreIt ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it – that’s what gets results
The desire for and purchasing of green products and services can no longer be deemed a new phenomenon – recycled...
Read moreSocial innovation with limited resources – when counting the pennies makes double the sense
While many researchers and business practitioners have espoused the resource-based view on innovation, where supply drives the size and cost...
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