supplier selection is one of the critical activities for firms to gain competitive advantage and achieve the objectives of the whole supply chain. in this paper based on a dea-topsis method for madm problems a flexible strategy for supplier selection is introduced

In the recent years, supply chain management (SCM) has gained immense importance since enterprises are now competing on supply chain rather than manufacturing or service operations. One of the key strategic considerations in the supply chain is supplier selection problem. The supplier selection problem is a multi objective problem involving both qualitative and quantitative factors. These facto...

A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making approach that makes use of quality function deployment (QFD), fusion of fuzzy information and 2-tuple linguistic representation model is developed for supplier selection. The proposed methodology seeks to establish the relevant supplier assessment criteria while also considering the impacts of inner dependence among them. Two interrelated house of qu...

<p><em>Suppliers play an important role as suppliers of production raw materials, making companies must choose correctly. This paper discusses the best supplier selection to avoid financial and non-financial losses uses four criteria for determining supplier, such price, lead time, payment terms, quality & service. A reasonable price following initial planning is always expe...

Supplier selection is nowadays one of the critical topics in supply chain management. This paper presents a new decision making approach for group multi-criteria supplier selection problem, which clubs supplier selection process with order allocation for dynamic supply chains to cope market variations. More specifically, the developed approach imitates the knowledge acquisition and manipulation...