With collaborative purchasing programmes where one of the aims is to develop suppliers, vendor rating is important not only in supplier selection and in deciding how to allocate business but also to determine where scarce development effort is best applied. This paper describes a case study into vendor rating for a government sponsored Entrepreneur Development programme in Malaysia. The paper reviews current methods for vendor rating and finds them wanting. It illustrates a new approach based on the use of Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy process method, which was developed to assist in multi-criteria decision problems. The new method overcomes the difficulties associated with the categorical and simple linear weighted average criteria ranking methods. It provides a more systematic way of deriving the weights to be used and for scoring the performance of vendors.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of dynamic eco innovation practice in order to achieve sustainability in manufacturing industries. The outcomes of this paper attempts to describe core categories of eco innovation practices in manufacturing industry, drivers of eco innovation-practices and framework of dynamic eco-innovation practices. At the end of the paper provides insight of new research direction for eco innovation research in new millennium particularly in developing countries. Design/methodology/Approach: The selected papers that have been reviewed were retrieved from Google scholar database with high citation index. A list of items/variables was developed for eco innovation measures based on dynamic capabilities theory pillar in eco innovation /green manufacturing through systematic literature review. Findings: Manufacturing acknowledges technical target in form of both product and process eco innovation as a pivotal role to attain sustainability development in ecology, economy and society. There are four eco innovation drivers captured in literature namely regulatory push, technology push, market pull, and firm strategies. However, underlined dynamic capabilities theory, four measurements uncovered consists of technology collaboration, green human resource, eco innovation culture and environmental management system strategy. Exploring the factors of eco innovation effort considered as the heart of new research direction in new millennium. Originality/value: Eco innovation is a new research area and limited knowledge established under micro level. Thus, this paper attempts to provide a clear direction of dynamic eco innovation practices towards eco innovation efforts in manufacturing industry en route for building the sustainable development echoes to economy, ecology and society.

In the 21 st century, sustainable development play a pivotal role since the commitment towards sustains competitive advantage broader to triple helix performance. Although manufacturing industry is recognized as the heart of nation development, but it's imposed to the causes of a natural disaster. Thus in the new millennium, eco product innovation became a buzz word to leverage firm's environmental performance, values creation and social development. Firm's resource and capabilities are recognized as a firm's strategic weapons to success on reducing carbon footprint. In a nutshell, Firm's capabilities relies on technology collaboration, green human resource (GHR) and, eco culture, meanwhile, at the heart of resource view, firms embraced formal EMS and top management support as a drivers to attain sustainable development as well as eco product innovation. Sample data was collected from 320 respondents comprised of a Small, Medium (SME) and Large Corporation which derived from an automotive industry in Malaysia due to a progressive commitment towards green initiatives. The proposed model and related hypotheses were tested by using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) techniques. To conclude, the proposed factors play an important role on crafting sustainability and eco product innovation efforts. Further, eco product innovation was crucial to mediate the relationship between Green human resource (GHR), technology collaboration and formal EMS to realised sustainable development

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