There is evidence that suppliers have private information about their customers’ credit risk. Yet, interest rates in trade credit markets are usually industry-not-firm specific. Why? If the demand for intermediate products is inelastic, suppliers should raise interest rates until they reach their customers’ outside option. By definition, this outside option cannot reflect information that is pr...

The sustainable Supplier Evaluation and Selection Order Allocation (SSOA) problem has received significant attention in supply chain management due to its potential enhance a company’s performance, improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs. In this study, an integrated methodology is proposed address the SSOA problem. combines multiple techniques handle uncertainties associated with supplier ...

Addressing the multi-criteria group decision making problem with interval attribute values and weights, this paper proposes a method based on distribution information. The selection of green suppliers is taken as an example for analysis. First, in case decision-making, quantitative evaluation attributes are imputed by decision-makers, relevant distributions constructed each attribute. Next, com...