This study proposes twooptimizationmathematicalmodels for the clustering and selection of suppliers. Model 1 performs an analysis of supplier clusters, according to customer demand attributes, including production cost, product quality and production time. Model 2 uses the supplier cluster obtained in Model 1 to determine the appropriate supplier combinations. The study additionally proposes a ...

The sustainable supplier selection process requires consideration of multi-criteria evaluations. In recent years, to prevent the hesitation of different linguistic expressions by the decision makers, and to help the selection of the best one as the solution of different alternatives, researchers have been using several methods such as hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTS), hesitant fuzzy ...

In current scenario strong competitive pressure forces several organizations to available their products and services, cheaper, faster and improved than the rivals to their valuable customer. Managers have come to comprehend that they cannot do it individually without suitable vendors. Supply Chain Management empower the flows of material, information and funds in a association consisting of cu...

Assessment and selection of suppliers are two most important tasks in the purchasing part in supply chain management. Supplier selection can be considered to be a single or multi-objective problem. From another point of view, it can be a single or multi-sourcing problem. In this paper, an integrated AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS model is proposed to solve the supplier selection problem. This model makes...

due to the importance of supplier selection issue in supply chain management (scm) and ,also,  the increasing tendency of organizations to their social responsibilities, in this paper, we survey the supplier selection issue as a multi objective problem while considering the factor of corporate social responsibility (csr) as a mathematical parameter. the purpose of this paper is to design a mode...

Supplier selection problem is a multi-criteria decision making problem which includes both qualitative and quantitative factors. In the selection process many criteria may conflict with each other, therefore decision-making process becomes complicated. In this paper, we propose a compensatory fuzzy approach to solve multi-objective linear supplier selection problemwith multiple-item (MLSSP-MI) ...

the relationship between the manufacturer and supplier has changed from one of competition into that of greater cooperation during recent years. the selection and evaluation of suppliers are primary and important issues when an enterprise implements supplier relationship management (srm) and total quality management (tqm). much research indicates that most enterprises tend to evaluate their sup...

This paper considers a buyer who has to decide whether to select a single or two sources of supply for a homogeneous product. The production processes of the suppliers are subject to learning effects, which reduce the production costs and increase the production capacities of the suppliers. This, in turn, enables the suppliers to reduce the sales price, which results in lower acquisition costs ...

With the widespread use of manufacturing philosophies such as Just-In-Time (JIT), emphasis has shifted to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data in supplier selection process. Traditionally, many optimization models of supplier selection assume that the average prices of related expenditures are constant. This is far beyond the real situation. In fact, suppliers usually off...

Supply Chain Management is an integrated approach to increase the effectiveness of the logistics chain by improving cooperation between the players in the chain. Supplier selection is one of the most crucial activities performed by organizations because of its strategic importance. Supplier selection is a multi-objective problem involving both quantitative and qualitative criteria the paper pro...