Supplier Evaluation and Selection Criteria in the Construction Industry of Taiwan and Vietnam

Abstract

To improve the quality of construction projects, it is critical to establish a better in-frastructure in the modern society. Also an effective supplier chain management (SCM) is required in the construction industry to ameliorate the quality of construction projects. As means of achieving successful SCM, the supplier relationship management which is the key position of suppliers in construction supply chain should be enhanced first. In this paper, a set of supplier selection and assessment criteria was adapted from Kannan and Tan (2002), to design the questionnaire for practical survey in Taiwan and Vietnam. The questionnaire for this survey was designed to find out how companies in the construction industry of Taiwan and Vietnam manage their relationships with suppliers and the actual range and importance of each criterion. Four hundred questionnaires were mailed to Taiwan and Vietnam con-struction companies, 200 in each area. Data from the survey were analyzed by using SPSS software version 12 for Windows. Descriptive data analysis was conducted to investigate the actual rank of supplier evaluation and selection criteria. Hypothesis testing for equality of means was also used to discover the differences between Taiwan and Vietnam in rating

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