La gestion interorganisationnelle des connaissances est une préoccupation croissante des organisations et, en particulier, de celles oeuvrant pour la dissuasion nucléaire française. Elle contribue à la maîtrise des connaissances nécessaires à la réussite d'un projet sur lequel plusieurs entreprises collaborent. Conduite à la Direction des applications militaires du Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, notre thèse s'intéresse au processus selon lequel une organisation cliente peut participer à la façon dont un fournisseur crée, conserve, transfert et applique les connaissances relatives aux prestations qu'elle lui achète. En ciblant la relation client / fournisseur stratégique, la recherche aborde un aspect peu exploré de la gestion interorganisationnelle des connaissances : le contrôle de la gestion des connaissances d'un fournisseur stratégique. Retenant, comme définition, que le contrôle de la gestion des connaissances d'un fournisseur stratégique est l'influence qu'un client peut exercer sur la façon dont il gère ses connaissances, la recherche démontre qu'il permet à un client de participer à la gestion des connaissances d'un fournisseur stratégique. A partir d'une approche ingénierique, notre thèse appréhende cet objet de recherche en s'appuyant sur la conception d'un guide méthodologique, proposant une démarche dédiée. Les résultats de la recherche aboutissent à la conception d'une démarche constituée de quatre étapes successives. Sa mise en oeuvre pourrait, si elle était engagée, aider un client à contrôler la gestion des connaissances d'un fournisseur stratégique et, in fine, permettre la maîtrise des connaissances relatives aux prestations qu'il lui livre. / Interorganizational knowledge management is a growing concern for organizations and, in particular, for those which belong to the French nuclear deterrence. It contributes to the mastery of knowledges required for the success of a project implying several companies. Carried out in the military applications Division of the French atomic energy Commission, our PhD thesis looks at the process allowing a client organization to participate to the way a supplier acquire, conserve, transfer and apply knowledges relevant to the deliveries that it purchased. Focusing on the client / strategic supplier relationship, the research addresses an unexplored aspect of interorganizational knowledge management: the knowledge management control of a strategic supplier. Since knowledge management control of a strategic supplier can be defined as the influence that a customer may have on how a strategic supplier manages its knowledge, research demonstrates that it allows the client to participate in knowledge management deployed by the strategic supplier. From a design science approach, our PhD thesis deals with this research object owing to the design of a methodological guide which proposes a dedicated process. The results of the research lead to the design of a process which consists in four stages. If it was in use, the process implementation could help a customer to control knowledge management of a strategic supplier and, finally, enable the mastery of knowledges related to the purchased deliveries.

La hausse de la volatilité des cours des matières premières agricoles de ces dernières années couplée à une réorganisation des filières débutées dans les années 1990, posent la question de l'approvisionnement des pays du Maghreb en blés et produits dérivés du blé. Ce travail se propose, dans ce contexte, de comprendre les modalités d'importations des blés et leur influence sur le choix du partenaire commercial. Nous nous appuyons, pour cela, sur un cadre théorique où les acteurs perçoivent les biens qu'ils importent, transforment ou commercialisent comme une collection de caractéristiques répondant à cinq logiques (le prix, la qualité, les services associés, les relations avec le fournisseur et le risque de non disponibilité) et sélectionnent leur variété préférée en fonction de ces caractéristiques. L'organisation des filières détermine l'acteur qui pourra imposer ses préférences au niveau des marchés internationaux. Une enquête au niveau des filières montre une préférence de l'ensemble des acteurs pour les caractéristiques ayant traits à la qualité et au prix sur les trois autres logiques, avec une plus grande sensibilité des acteurs privés pour la qualité, les acteurs publics étant plus focalisés sur les seuls prix. Enfin, une analyse des importations à l'aide d'équations de gravités confirme, d'une part la, prédominance des variables associées à la qualité et aux prix sur les autres variables pour expliquer le choix du partenaire commercial. D'autre part, le modèle de gravité montre que plus la part des importations effectuée par les entreprises privées est importante, plus les variables associées à la qualité sont influentes dans le choix du fournisseur. / Last years' rise of commodity price volatility and commodity chain reorganization which began in the 1990's questioned the issue of supply in wheat and wheat products for Maghreb countries. This work will try to understand the different wheat and wheat product import mode and their influence on trade partner choice. We settle our analyze on a theoretical framework in which actors perceive the goods they import, process or sell as a collection of characteristics corresponding to five logics (price, quality, related services, relations with the supplier and the risk of unavailability) and select their favorite variety in terms of these characteristics. Filière organization selects which actors are able to impose their preferences in international markets. A survey among actors shows a preference for the characteristics relating to quality and price on the three other logics, with a greater sensitivity of private actors for quality, public players are more focused solely on price. Finally, an analysis of imports using gravity equations confirms, on the one hand, predominance of variables associated with quality and prices on other variables to explain the choice of trading partner. On the other hand, it shows that the larger the share of imports carried by private companies on a filière, the more the variables associated with quality are influential in the choice of supplier.

The goal of this diploma thesis is, through three performance indicators: Stock Depreciation, Supplier Fill Rate and On Shelves Availability, to analyze stock management at Sephora Czech Republic, propose, implement and evaluate selected methods of improving strategy. Thematically, the thesis is divided into two parts. The first part includes theoretical background, basic concepts related to the stock and its management. The second chapter is a practical part, where the main focus is given to analysis of current state of inventory management, recommendations for improvement, their implementation and evaluation of the results.

The entry of China into the globalized world and onto the stage of the global automarket has presented auto manufacturers with the largest ever market opportunity. While global competitive forces drive firms to develop product innovation through their global supply chains, the approach of global auto manufacturers and their first tier suppliers has been to bring existing technology into China. Only recently has the supply chain in China become integrated into the global product innovation cycle. While innovations generated by supply channel relationships, as opposed to individual partners, are playing an increasingly important role in the success of all supply chain partners, there has been limited research in the literature on how supply chain relationships cultivate the process of such innovation generation, particularly in China. Correspondingly, this study explores how multinational suppliers can develop adaptive product innovation in order to create a sustainable competitive advantage in China and how the protection of their knowledge helps them sustain it. Drawing on the knowledge-based view and transaction cost economics, and integrating those with behavioural governance and the institution-based view this study identifies drivers of product innovation for MNC suppliers in their relationships with Chinese OEMs, investigates the influence of supplier involvement and knowledge protection on supplier product innovation and examines the outcomes in the specific context of the Chinese automotive industry from the first-tier supplier perspective. Survey results of 170 multinational automobile suppliers in China indicate support for most of the hypotheses. Specifically, knowledge protection is found to have an impact on product innovation in the context of the auto industry in China. Supplier involvement in co-design and co-development with an automotive OEM customer has an inverted U-shaped relationship with product innovation. Furthermore, trust and technological uncertainty are found to drive greater product innovation. In addition, the institutional environment moderates the effect of product innovation on performance. Overall, this study enhances the understanding of how MNC suppliers can acquire local knowledge, develop products adapted to the local market requirements and foster product innovation while retaining their knowledge and know-how and minimizing negative effects of spill-overs to the local competition in the automotive industry in China.

This diploma thesis is concerned with the issue of supplier resource management by using SAP SRM information system. Main goal is the adjudication if it is important to spend company's resources for optimization of shopping proces and if there exists some return of these resources. All at once this thesis is showing principles, SAP SRM's functions including benefits gained by the implementation and the system using. The practical part analyses the shopping process in ABB Group. Author compares a foregoing solution for an indirect spend management with SAP SRM solution. There was a necessary need to adjust company's processes when the new solution, that was implemented. These changes are modeled later on in this thesis and compared with each other. Added advantages achieved upon the foregoing solution are described as well.

No contexto atual do ambiente empresarial, a gestão da cadeia de suprimentos surge como um veículo através do qual as empresas podem obter vantagem competitiva. As empresas passaram a ser instadas a alterar o modelo tradicional de relacionamento distante e de curto prazo - mercado puro, com seus fornecedores, por uma relação colaborativa de longo prazo - parceria. A literatura relevante sobre parceria destaca uma série de atributos e características que devem estar presentes neste tipo de relacionamento, para que as empresas possam atingir os resultados a que se propuseram. Nesta pesquisa, desenvolve-se uma análise da literatura relevante em gestão de cadeia de suprimentos e gestão de relacionamentos, e apresenta-se um modelo conceitual, desenvolvido por Mohr e Spekman e revisitado pelo autor, que expõe os fatores associados a parcerias de sucesso. Um estudo de caso foi realizado, durante o ano de 2006, mostrando a evolução do modelo de relacionamento entre fabricante e fornecedor, em uma indústria aeronáutica brasileira, buscando verificar a presença ou não das características do modelo apresentado. O resultado do estudo gera a percepção de que, embora tenha havido uma evolução no relacionamento fabricante-fornecedor em direção ao modelo colaborativo, ainda existe um bom caminho a ser trilhado pela empresa para atingir a relação de parceria preconizada pelo modelo referencial utilizado neste trabalho. / In the current context of enterprise environmental, supply chain management appear as a vehicle through which a company can get competitive advantage. Companies started to be pushed to change the traditional far away and short term relationship model - arm\'s length - with their suppliers for a long term collaborative relation - partnership. The relevant literature about partnership points out a series of attributes and characteristics that should be present in this kind of relationship in order to allow companies to attain proposed results. This research develops an analysis of relevant literature concerning supply chain management and relationship management, and provides a conceptual model, developed by Mohr and Spekman and revisited by this author, that shows the factors associated with successful partnership. A case study is dropped, during 2006, showing the evolution of such buyer-supplier relationship model, in a Brazilian aerospace industry, searching to verify the presence or not of those attributes presented in the conceptual model. Results from the study generates a perception that, although have been noticed an evolution on buyer-supplier relationship toward the collaborative model, there is a long way ahead to meet the partnership referenced at the conceptual model presented in this study.

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This thesis has been written for the purpose of acquiring results which would help a builder with choosing material and construction method with respect to price. The thesis deals with comparison of construction costs when utilizing contemporary materials and using various possibilities of construction itself.

Diploma thesis is a proposal for measures to increase performance and efficiency of VMT ECOPACK s.r.o. supply chain. The aim is optimalize logistics, material flows for manufacturing proceses and propose an evaluation system for suplier ratings. The theoretical part explains foundations and contexts from logistics and supply chain. The analytical part is devoted to acquaintance with the company and evaluation of its current production systems from the supply chain and logistics point of view. The practical part responds to identified shortcomings and suggests a way of evaluating suppliers, implementing an ERP system, unifying suppliers and optimizing supplies.

The diploma thesis focuses on defining the purchasing process in the organization. Specifies purchasing management and inventory management. It focuses on the description of information systems in the organization. It contains proposals for the modification of the system facilitating more efficient inventory management and more flexible management of supplier-customer relationships.