Previous studies have proven that enterprises addressing green supply chain management problem may produce an apparent improvement to their stockholder interests. According to the report of Kearney (Carbon Disclosure Project: supply chain report 2010. CDP, London, 2010), more than 80 % of the carbon emissions are generated from the suppliers’ activities in a company’s performance. Many members ...

Supplier selection, which is the basic process of finding the best supplier/suppliers to procure the items regarding various criteria, is an important decision problem to be studied. It becomes more complicated if there are various items and any supplier cannot provide all types of items individually. Such situations are called multi-item, multi-supplier environments and rarely studied in the l...

establishing of total quality management in any organization including emergency medical services need to an appropriate tool to help developing, implementing and evaluating of quality programs. the objective of this study was to develop a valid and reliable tool for self assessing enabler criteria of iran ems centers according to european foundation for quality management (efqm) model.the stud...

We present TAPAS-Z, which is an agent-based freight transport analysis model for simulation of decision-making and transport activities. TAPAS-Z is a further development of a simulation model called TAPAS, and it has improved support for simulation of transport in large geographical regions. It is based on the principles that shipments are simulated for chosen supplier-consumer relations in a g...

**Textile Education Department, Technical Education Faculty, Marmara University, Goztepe, Istanbul, Turkey E-mail: [email protected] Abstract In today’s world where intensive competition exists between enterprises, it is of great importance to work in cooperation with the right suppliers. Selection of the right suppliers is a significant factor in the success of enterprises. In the selectio...

The early awareness of a potential financial distress is crucial to firm’s managers for understanding their clients, suppliers and their own firms, and crucial to fund suppliers for assessing the construction firm’s credit worthiness. The purpose of this paper is to develop a dynamic prediction model for financial distress in construction industry using Data Mining. This research expects to pro...

This paper presents a framework for tour operators to use in the implementation of supply chain management processes to improve sustainability performance. This is critical for a sector that historically has treated impacts as externalities and suppliers as commodities, and in which recent sustainability actions have been informal or ecosavings led. This framework is part of the outcome from th...

According to the concept of green supply chain, in this paper, we introduce a multi-method multiple criteria approach to develope more appropriate green supplier programs and practices. In reality, investigation into this field of study has just begun. We propose a combination of new fuzzy clustering means (FCM) better than the traditional clustering method and technique for order of preference...

Supplier selection (SS), which is a critical stage of supply chain management (SCM), no longer evaluated solely from the perspective traditional criteria, due to increasing environmental problems and ethical concerns. In this study, multidimensional approach including environmental, economic, social, competency concepts was proposed evaluate SS, an integrated based on Best Worst Method (BWM) fu...