According to a new study by the International Labor Organization (ILO), COVID-19 pandemic has had strong impact on garment industry in Asia-Pacific region. A sharp drop retail sales key export markets affected workers and businesses across supply chains. To ensure effectiveness efficiency of chain, choosing sustainable supplier should be main concern all businesses. The selection problem involv...

Increasing competitive pressures are forcing companies to increase their rates of innovation. The increasing rate of innovation shortens each product's duration in the market, thereby compressing each product's life cycle. Without proper management, increasing product turnover will increase design and manufacturing costs. More frequent product development cycles require additional product devel...

The complexity of the inter-organizational collaboration processes is one of the main concerns of the supply chain management. SCOR (Supply Chain Operation References) process reference model addresses those concerns by providing a process implementation roadmap, consisting of workflows, best practices, systems and performance metrics. In this paper, we use SCOR framework to develop knowledge-b...

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has become one of the most essential subjects in business management. This paper establishes how risk modeling can be applied to supply chain management, specifically to supply portfolio procurement decisions of a firm. In a single period setting, parts can be procured via traditional forward contracts, option contracts or spot purchases. Customer demand and spo...

Groundwater is among the most important resources of drinking water supply ofthe worldwide population. Use of recharge area is one of the methods for artificiallyrecharging groundwater. Selection of suitable sites for artificial recharge is very importantand must be carried out accurately. There are different types of land use, only rangelandsare appropriate for artificial recharge because of t...

    Supplier selection,   Multi-objective decision making,   Fuzzy Compromise programming,   Supply chain management,   Quantity discount .   Supplier selection is naturally a complex multi-objective problem including both quantitative and qualitative factors. This paper deals with this issue from a new view point. A quantity discount situation, which plays a role of motivator for buyer, is con...