Supplier evaluation and selection are critical decision making processes that require consideration of a variety of attributes. Several studies have been performed for effective evaluation and selection of suppliers by utilizing several techniques such as linear weighting methods, mathematical programming models, statistical methods and AI based techniques. One of the successful evaluation meth...

The success of a supply chain is highly dependent on selection of best suppliers. These decisions are an important component of production and logistics management for many firms. Little attention is given in the literature to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data in supplier selection process. This paper proposes a new integrated data envelopment analysis (DEA) model whic...

The research reported in this study investigates the initial development of a framework of supplier selection in the context of Taiwanese agribusiness. The importance of this research lies in the fact that although supplier selection has been researched across a range of industries, there is little evidence of its application to the agribusiness sector. From the existing literature, a prelimina...

Little attention is given in the literature to decisions on the appropriate selection of suppliers, and on assigning order quantities to these suppliers, in the case of multiple sourcing, with multiple criteria and with suppliers' capacity constraints. Only a few mathematical programming models to analyse such decisions have been published to date, and these have tended to consider only net pri...

Discretionary models for evaluating the efficiency of suppliers assume that all criteria are discretionary, i.e., controlled by the management of each supplier and varied at its discretion. These models do not assume supplier selection in the conditions that some factors are nondiscretionary. The objective of this paper is to propose a new pair of Nondiscretionary Factors-Imprecise Data Envelop...

Numerous studies have demonstrated that firms consider multiple criteria when selecting key suppliers. In this study, we present, based on econometric choice modeling framework, how manufacturing managers/executives tradeoff between cost, delivery, flexibility, and service features in the supplier selection process, given acceptable quality. Empirical data for this study was collected from manu...

The information systems outsourcing presents itself as a strategic option for companies and continues to evolve in size and in type of contracts. In order to identify the most frequently outsourced services and aiming to get a better compre hension on the hiring process, a study was made based on a survey sent to information systems managers of large Portuguese companies. The study allowed to i...

Green supplier selection involves a difficult and complex decision-making process because the criteria have relationship with each other. Due to conflicts, becomes crucial. Likewise, strategies among alternatives are critical decide best one. To overcome these difficulties, multi-criteria decision making methods game theory approaches appropriate. In this study, fuzzy SWARA, which is multicrite...

The purpose of this paper is to present a framework and a suitable method for selecting the best logistics supplier. In general, many quantitative and qualitative criteria should be considered simultaneously for making the decision of logistics supplier selection. The information about judging the performance of logistics suppliers will come from customers’ opinions, experts’ opinions and the o...

⎯In this study, two (or more) supply chains where the suppliers share information on their production, inventory and delivery status are considered. Due to uncertain supplier deliveries and lead time, horizontal supplier coordination is implemented to reduce lead time and deliveries uncertainty, and thus the safety inventory due to risk pooling effect. As a result, the total system profit incre...