Abstract
This study presents an evaluation framework to measure the various operations to acquire the optimal core operation (CO) when financier provides the supply chain finance (SCF) services in smartphone industry supply chain (SC). The proposed model applies the modify Delphi method and analytic network process (ANP). First, the evaluation model establishes a network with three criteria, eleven sub-criteria and four operations. Next, the ANP is utilized to the framework to obtain the relative weights of the criteria. Finally, the application of the multi-criteria decision making process will list the optimal CO on the basis of their rankings in the framework.The proposed model and the relevant research results can provide academic support to the decision-makers on finance sector with a valuable objective guide for assessing the CO of smartphone industry SC programs to determine the optimal solution in their actual administration of SCF service practices.
Highlights
The modern economy has two defining characteristics: globalization and intense competition
This research constructs a quality evaluation factor for evaluating the core operation (CO) in smartphone industry supply chain ecosystem based on the modified Delphi processes, and by conducting interviews with anonymous specialists
The final results of the analytic network process (ANP) framework demonstrate that the optimal CO for financier of smartphone industry supply chain (SC) is Supplier, which means when a potential financiers wants to provide supply chain finance (SCF) services to smartphone industry SC, it should focus on the “supplier” firm and the CO can provide the shipment records to financier that would result in the delivery of credit, records in transaction or invoice and so on to their downstream (OEM/ODM, Brands and retailer) companies
Summary
The modern economy has two defining characteristics: globalization and intense competition. It should be noted that financial processes are important to any industry that has implemented SC activities This considered, financial organizations must examine Small-Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in a very careful way when providing them with the working capital required to expand their respective market shares. This concept is the basis of Supply Chain Finance (SCF) which can improve the efficiency of the flow of finance within the SC. If the “CO” was found, a much more efficient model could be created where every member within the supply chain can use transaction records from upstream and downstream transactions to receive credit from the manufacturer This involves a lot of risks through the core operation to other members in a supply chain when they have implemented the SCF activity into the ecosystem.
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