In recent years, Supplier evaluation and selection, an important element in supply chain management, has been gaining attention in both academic literature and industrial practice. The Mixed integer multi-Objective non-Linear programming model (MIMONLP) presented in this paper aimed to evaluate and select the appropriate set of suppliers considering quantitative and qualitative criteria and in ...

the supplier selection is a multi-criteria decision making which consist both qualities and quantities metrics. a lot of investigations have been published in the supplier selection area and, most of the proposed models focused on manufacturing environments and a few papers have been allocated for service industries. proposed system utilizes new method that transfer the house of quality (hoq) a...

Focusing on supplier selection, this article addresses two questions: (1) What are the antecedents that lead to the adoption of various types of selection strategies? (2) What impact do these strategies have on supplier performance? We build a research model showing how both the uncertainty-based and resource-based views drive market-focused and relationship-focused supply selection strategies....

Supplier evaluation and selection is one of the most important components of an effective supply chain management system. Due to the expanding competition in healthcare, selecting the right medical device suppliers offers great potential for increasing quality while decreasing costs. This paper proposes a fuzzy decision making approach for medical supplier selection. A real-world medical device...

An important feature of the international nancial system is that it overwhelmingly uses a major currency, such as the US dollar, as a vehicle in the exchange between other currencies. In this paper we construct an equilibrium model to study this feature. The model economy has a nite number of countries, and each country's goods are sold only for the country's own currency. Households obtain for...

To simultaneously account for the properties of interest-rate term structure and foreign exchange rates within one arbitrage-free framework, we propose a class of multicurrency quadratic models (MCQM) with an (m+ n) factor structure in the pricing kernel of each economy. The m factors model the term structure of interest rates. The n factors capture the portion of the exchange rate movement tha...

This study models a closed loop supply chain network for the Iranian engine oil market. The primary goal of created model is to summarize tactical choices like choosing best degree discount and allocating flow products across facilities as well strategic decisions selecting supplier finding new facilities. three aim functions reducing overall expenses, optimizing employment rate, limiting unrea...

abstract: central banks have long been interested in obtaining precise estimations of money demand given the fact that the evolution of money demand plays a key role over several monetary variables. one implication of currency substitution is that the exchange rate could serve as another determinant of the demand for money. due to the recent currency crisis in iran, it would be important to inv...