Subject category:
Production and Operations Management
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 8 March 1994
Length: 13 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
Bose Corp is evaluating an unusual plan to manage relationships with vendors that supply components for Bose speakers. The company must decide: 1) which planning and ordering activities should be performed by Bose and which can be performed by vendors; 2) how much access vendors should have to Bose computer systems and facilities, and 3) how to adapt vendor relations as the company grows or as markets change. Students are asked to consider both the buyer''s and the vendor''s perspective on the buyer-seller relationship.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD720 million revenues
Other setting(s):
1991
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Abstract
Bose Corp is evaluating an unusual plan to manage relationships with vendors that supply components for Bose speakers. The company must decide: 1) which planning and ordering activities should be performed by Bose and which can be performed by vendors; 2) how much access vendors should have to Bose computer systems and facilities, and 3) how to adapt vendor relations as the company grows or as markets change. Students are asked to consider both the buyer''s and the vendor''s perspective on the buyer-seller relationship.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD720 million revenues
Other setting(s):
1991