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Vendor Managed Inventory Practices: A Case in Manufacturing Companies Kamaruddin Radzuan; Mohd Faizal Omar; Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi; Irwan Abdul Rahim; Mazri Yaakob
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 7, No 4 (2018): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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The implementation of the Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) in the Malaysian manufacturing sector can be viewed as a solution to mitigate the increment of operational costs and low performance in customer services. Many factors contributed to the performance of the VMI programme, but only a few attempts was made to determine the contribution of the VMI elements on VMI performance. The objectives of this study were to investigate the level of VMI practices, organizational factors and VMI performance; and to examine the influence of type of product on VMI element and VMI performance. The study used qualitative approach, which data were gathered from semi-structured questions through interview process. There are 4 manufacturing companies listed in the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers were selected for data collection purpose. The findings showed that high information sharing, moderate level of inventory control, close inventory location to customer premises, inventory ownership, mutual decision on inventory replenishment are among VMI practices in manufacturing companies. The respondents also confirmed that the influence of type of product characteristic onto VMI performance only to a limited extent. As a recommendation, supplier and customer must design their VMI program, which suit to product characteristics. Another important part is VMI agreement should be balanced between the need of suppliers authority in controlling customers inventory and current capability of supplier. They should consider the flexibility of VMI system, especially the capability to reduce cost on behalf of the supplier and to provide better service to the customer.
The Importance of Developer Reputation Criterion In House Purchase Decision Making Ahmad Taufik Nursal; Mohd Faizal Omar; Mohd Nasrun Nawi; Mazlan Mohd Sappri
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 8, No 1 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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House purchase is high stake decision that is not only required a high number of investment, yet numerous criteria need to be considered. Such as price, location, neighborhood, infrastructure, future value, availability of green space, developer reputation, transportation and etc. However, due to the increasing number of failed and unfinished housing project mostly caused by developer, the role of developer reputation criterion is becoming increasingly important in housing selection. Thus, this paper had provided insight on how reputation criteria influence housing purchasing decision making. In addition, this paper has gathered evidences to illustrate the needs of developer reputation decision making tools towards a better decision-making process. It is anticipates that this study will yield an effective decision making platform to manage housing purchase problem.
Criteria Requirement for IBS Vendor Selection Ahmad Taufik Nursal; Mohd Faizal Omar; Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi
International Journal of Supply Chain Management Vol 5, No 2 (2016): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)
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The role of vendor selection in construction procurement was addressed as a crucial process to achieve project objective not only in conventional construction project, but also in IBS project. Due to the promising advantages of IBS, constructions industry has witness numerous of IBS vendor available in Malaysia market. This situation has created a decision problem among the construction company to select the best vendor that fulfils the project need. Several complexities of construction vendor selection were discussed in past studies. Thus, there is a need of decision aid in IBS vendor selection. A discussion of criteria in construction vendor selection has also been presented. As initial step to develop a decision model, a documental analysis was performed to gather the related IBS vendor selection criteria. Literature suggest that construction vendor selection can be grouped into cost, quality, service, buyer and vendor relationship, assurance supply, payment term, and past performance. After gather and filtering criteria from literature, 38 criteria were found related with IBS vendor selection. This set of criteria is essential to further develop research instrument to identify the criteria of IBS vendor selection in the next phase of research.