Title: Supply chain coordination voyage towards supplier relationship management: a critical review

Authors: Aishwarya Dash; Ranjit Kumar Das; Sushanta Tripathy; Sudarson Nayak

Addresses: Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ' Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ' School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ' School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Abstract: Supply chain coordination bridges gap between the point of origin and point of consumption in the supply chain network of companies that is from suppliers to end users to manage their dependence on each other. Nowadays, the manufacturing organisations are using the power of supplier relationship for their survival in a high volatile market place. This research is focused on hundreds of past research work in the areas of coordination and their findings have been grouped under three categories like factors affecting SRM, methodologies used to measure the performance of SRM and trends of SRM. The findings of this exploratory paper is to uncover the meaningful key factors, appropriate methodology used to measure the performance, and focused dynamic trends of supplier relationship management of manufacturing organisation in 20 fast centuries. Our study will be a guideline for supply chain managers to develop a strong covalent bonding with suppliers in the present scenario.

Keywords: supply chain coordination; supplier relationship; performance measurement methodology; factors of SRM; trends of SRM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPM.2018.094355

International Journal of Procurement Management, 2018 Vol.11 No.5, pp.586 - 607

Received: 03 May 2017
Accepted: 29 Aug 2017
Published online: 30 Aug 2018 *

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