In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. Selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. Suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. Any suppl...

The research on service supply chain has attracted more and more focus from both academia and industrial community. In a service supply chain, the selection of supplier portfolio is an important and difficult problem due to the fact that a supplier portfolio may include multiple suppliers from a variety of fields. To address this problem, we propose a novel supplier portfolio selection method b...

Power grid equipment is the guarantee of the safe and stable operation of power grids, selecting rational power grid equipment suppliers is the focus of power grid enterprise. In order to select the equipment supplier for grid enterprises more objectively and comprehensively, this paper proposes a power grid equipment supplier selection method based on cloud model and hesitant linguistic inform...

Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from corporate activities are gradually becoming a mainstream management issue for businesses. The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Corporate Standard has been adopted as the international standard to report a corporation’s overall emission profile of their value chain activities. Through Scope 3 Corporate Standard, companies can recognize potential emissions and associated ...

one of important issues in designing a supply chain is supplier selection. this issue is complicated, because each supplier should satisfy some criteria from buyer and choosing among them is actually a multi criteria decision making problem. so, there is a need for a structured and systematic approach to solve this problem. in this article, we address supplier selection in an advertising indust...

The contemporary manufacturing organisations are forced to adopt advanced manufacturing paradigms for sustaining in the global markets. Supply chain management is an essential ingredient of advanced manufacturing systems since outsourcing gains vital importance. Supplier selection is a vital issue concerned in the process of managing global supply chains. A conceptual model for supplier selecti...

Supplier selection plays a vital role in the process of product development. The purpose of this research is to integrate the state of the art Web technologies with business theories to establish a Web-based distributed environment for supplier selection. A Web Services-oriented multipossibility supplier selection system has been developed, which helps manufacturers to make decisions for select...

Supplier evaluation and selection is a critical decision process for companies in order to gain competitive advantage. Decision models focusing on risk minimization have recently received increasing attention in supplier selection literature. In this paper, risk factors, which incorporate qualitative as well as quantitative data, are employed in fuzzy data envelopment analysis for obtaining eff...

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I this paper, we study the performance of a sourcing mechanism gaining popularity in industrial procurement environments; a tournament. Under a tournament, a buyer initially procures her parts from two suppliers with possibly different quality levels, for T time periods, i.e., she parallel sources. During this time, the buyer is able to observe noisy signals about the suppliers’ quality. At tim...