A company must purchase a lot of diverse components and raw material from different upstream suppliers to manufacture or assemble its products. Under this situation the supplier selection has become a critical issue for the purchasing department.The selection of suppliers depends on number of criteria and the challenge is to optimize selection process based on critical criteria and select the b...

With the growth of public awareness for environmental protection, green production was raised as an important issue for each producer, which will guarantee its activity in long term. Creating suppliers, performance assessment system is so necessary and important that it measures suitability of the suppliers for long-term cooperation with the company. Many activities have been performed for sele...

With limited capacity of suppliers, how to reduce the total operating cost of the enterprise by determining the most suitable production capacity allocation has become the major issue faced by various enterprises in producing multiple types of products. In addition, when manufacturing multiple types of products, due to the high demand of common and non-common parts, which is applicable to vario...

To remain competitive in customer-oriented economics, the major parties in the supply chain should be integrated and managed effectively to respond to customer needs. Thus, the efficiency of the entire supply chain is a main concern, and is determined by the members of that supply chain. Partner selection thus becomes one of the key steps in supply chain construction. Given buyer–supplier infor...

Nowadays, purchasing decisions are increasingly considering both tangible and intangible factors that in supplier selection. If suppliers have capacity or other different constraints, the problem is to identity the potential suppliers and to allocate the optimal order quantity among the selected suppliers. In this paper an integrated model of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and preemptive goal...

Selecting suppliers is a multi-criteria decision-making problem involving both qualitative and quantitative factors. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-criteria approach that aids to select suppliers based on two interrelated inputs: overall system performance and supplier performance. With this model, enterprises that are collaborating will have a tool to select suppliers not only bas...

A style dress outlet usually purchases products from multiple suppliers with different cost, quality and selling price. It is assumed that some suppliers will sell their goods to the buyer outright, while some other suppliers will offer return policy for items unsold. In the latter case, the supplier buys back from the buyer the unsold items at the end of the selling season. The purpose of this...

Competition among stock exchanges has increased dramatically over the last decade. To attract trading volume, most exchanges introduced makertaker fees, an incentive scheme that rewards liquidity suppliers and charges liquidity demanders. Using a change in fees on the Toronto Stock Exchange, we analyze how the breakdown of trading fees between liquidity demanders and suppliers affects market ou...

This study proposes a bi-objective mixed possibilistic, two-stage stochastic programming model to address supplier selection and order allocation problem to build the resilient supply base under operational and disruption risks. The model accounts for epistemic uncertainty of critical data and applies several proactive strategies such as suppliers’ business continuity plans, fortification of su...

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...