Supplier management and development are discussed in Chapter 9. Conduct a search on Google Scholar, the Internet, or the school library for an article on supplier management and development. Summarize the article, describe its main points, and give your opinion on the contribution it makes to the body of literature. Try to connect some of the concepts you learned in Chapter 9 to the article you selected.

The book is Purchasing and Supply Chain Management 7^th Edition by Robert M. Monczka; Robert B. Handfield; Larry C. Giunipero; James L. Patterson ISBN-13: 978-0357442142.