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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
1-890843-06-7
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.2001.952380
