In today’s global services outsourcing arena, increasing numbers of companies adopt “multisourcing,” that is, they select and combine information technology (IT) and business services from multiple providers. The literature on IT outsourcing and supply chain management has identified critical tradeoffs involved in increasing the number of suppliers and has strongly recommended focusing on a han...

Due to increasing air pollution, which is a consequence of the environmental effects production in various industries, green supply chain management (GSCM) has attracted attention both scholars and practitioners. Green supplier selection an important problem GSCM seeks satisfy firm’s goals as well its economic targets. In this paper, for first time, considering non-green evaluation criteria clo...

The fundamental objective of supply chain management (SCM) is to integrate various suppliers to satisfy market demand. Supplier evaluation and selection is very important for establishing an effective supply chain. As a matter of fact, supplier selection consists of both qualitative and quantitative criteria, so it is considered as a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Under incomple...

In this paper, Taylor series is used to solve neutrosophic multi-objective programming problem (NMOPP). In the proposed approach, the truth membership, Indeterminacy membership, falsity membership functions associated with each objective of multi-objective programming problems are transformed into a single objective linear programming problem by using a first order Taylor polynomial series. Fin...

A novel method of architecting relay functions, within the paradigm of frequency division duplex based cellular networks, by modifying the access terminals (AT) to AT Relays (ATR) and enhancing HRPD access networks (AN) is proposed. Traditional applications such as spot/emergency coverage, and new applications related to network auto-configuration, optimization, and fault management are support...

Supplier selection in supply chain is a multi-criteria problem that involves a number of quantitative and qualitative factors. This paper deals with a concrete problem of flour purchase by a company that manufactures bakery products and the purchasing price of flour depends on the quantity ordered. The criteria for supplier selection and quantities supplied by individual suppliers are: purchase...

Limited business resources and a fierce market competition require quality management which considers stakeholders’ needs. For every production company important stakeholders are suppliers of components embedded in the final product. The selection of suppliers of product components plays a very important role in the realization of the production process. Supplier selection is a multi-criteria d...