BestChoice: A Decision Support System for Supplier Selection in e-Marketplaces

Modeling and development of a decision support system for supplier selection in the process industry

This paper presents the development of a model based decision support system with a case study on solving the supplier selection problem in a chemical processing industry. For the evaluation and selection of supplier, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) were used. The intention of the study is to propose an appropriate platform for process industries in ...

A hybrid decision making system using DEA and fuzzy models for supplier selection in the presence of multiple decision makers

Supplier selection in electronic marketplaces using satisficing and fuzzy AHP

Supplier selection is a critical and demanding task for companies that participate in electronic marketplaces to find suppliers and to execute electronically their transactions. This paper is aimed to suggest a fresh approach for decision support enabling effective supplier selection processes in electronic marketplaces. We introduce an evaluation method with two stages: initial screening of th...

Sustainable Supplier Selection by a New Hybrid Support Vector-model based on the Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm

For assessing and selecting sustainable suppliers, this study considers a triple-bottom-line approach, including profit, people and planet, and regards business operations, environmental effects along with social responsibilities of the suppliers. Diverse metrics are acquainted with measure execution in these three issues. This study builds up a new hybrid intelligent model, namely COA-LS-SVM, ...

An Intelligence-Based Model for Supplier Selection Integrating Data Envelopment Analysis and Support Vector Machine

The importance of supplier selection is nowadays highlighted more than ever as companies have realized that efficient supplier selection can significantly improve the performance of their supply chain. In this paper, an integrated model that applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) is developed to select efficient suppliers based on their predicted efficiency sco...