Suppliers provide new technology to firms and are important in firms‟ NPD. It is not sufficient for firms to select the most appropriate technology; they must also select the most appropriate supplier for their NPD. The purpose of this licentiate thesis is to map and identify criteria used in the process of selecting a suitable supplier, and explore the role of Purchasing in NPD collaborative p...

How to select the suitable suppliers in the supply chain is critical for an organization’s success and has attracted much attention of both researchers and practitioners. Supplier selection can be regarded as a complex group multiple criteria decision making problem requiring consideration of a number of alternative suppliers and quantitative and qualitative criteria. Additionally, decision mak...

In this paper, we present a model of lean supplier management between an OEM and its suppliers for the objectives of eliminating wastes, reducing cost and improvement continuously based on the lean production. This model includes supplier selection and categorization, supplier improvement, supplier certification and supplier evaluation. First, the supplier selection process and some basic princ...

This paper provides practical insights into the success criteria in agile projects Norwegian software industry. We conducted 32 interviews with practitioners working projects. The findings revealed two fundamental differences that distinguish perception of from are based on waterfall approach. Firstly, evaluation is carried out a regular basis after each increment. and continuous measurement co...

Supplier selection is a multi-Criteria problem. This study proposes a hybrid model for supporting the suppliers’ selection and ranking. This research is a two-stage model designed to fully rank the suppliers where each supplier has multiple Inputs and Outputs. First, the supplier evaluation problem is formulated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), since the regarded decision deals with uncertai...

Supplier selection in food supply chains (FSCs) is not much explored due to the inherent difficulties, complexities and nature of industry. Food security quality are top row topics today’s world health scenario. During sudden crisis, it needs extra attention where producers, suppliers, stakeholders play most vital roles. This paper puts forward a two-phase sustainable multi-tier supplier model ...

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 aim of this paper is to evaluate suppliers using a multi objective programming problem and multiple criteria data envelope analysis. toward accomplishing this goal, first a general algorithm is introduced to obtain a continuous set of efficient solutions of the given multi objective programming problem. then, since each member of such set can be viewed as a combination of inputs such as raw...