With increased worldwide awareness of environmental protection, green supply chain management (GSCM) has received much attention from both researchers and practitioners over the past decade. Traditionally, organizations have considered criteria such as cost, quality, and delivery to evaluate the performance of their suppliers. Although there is an abundance of studies considering the convention...

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is an application that gives support to a company in the task of deciding which supplier to choose when a new supply has to be ordered. It is based on a measure of trust and provides several tools that visualize that measure and support its use on decision making.

This article suggests a new method that transfers the house of quality (HOQ) approach typical of quality function deployment (QFD) problems to the supplier selection process. To test its efficacy, the method is applied to a supplier selection process for a medium-to-large industry that manufactures complete clutch couplings. The study starts by identifying the features that the purchased produc...

Software for international companies is often developed by a multiplicity of suppliers using different approaches and processes. Only a few of these suppliers are already rated according to CMMI, ISO 15504 or ISO 9001. Therefore Vodafone Global and sd&m have developed an approach to evaluate and to monitor the quality of suppliers’ development processes with selfassessments based on a detailed ...