An effective supplier selection process is very important to the success of any manufacturing organization. The main objective of supplier selection process is to reduce purchase risk, maximize overall value to the purchaser, and develop closeness and long-term relationships between buyers and suppliers in today’s competitive industrial scenario. The literature on supplier selection criteria an...

Supplier selection can be considered as a complicated multi criteria decision-making problem.In this paper the problem of supplier selection is studied in the presence of conflicting evaluations and insufficient information about the criteria and different attitudes of decision makers towards the risk. Most of fuzzy approaches used in multi-criteria group decision making (MCGDM) are non-intuiti...

A novel decision support framework has been proposed herein to solve supplier selection problems by considering green as well as resiliency criteria, simultaneously. In this work subjectivity of evaluation criteria has been tackled by exploring fuzzy set theory. A satisfaction function and distance based approach has been conceptualized in this work to operate under fuzzy environment. Applicati...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine supplier selection among smalland medium-sized firms in the US textile and apparel industry. For smalland medium-sized firms, one powerful method of improving the firm’s competitiveness in the dynamic business environment is through strategic approach of supplier selection, which emphasizes supplier’s contributions to the total product...

Because of the pressure of globalization in the last two decades, professional services has become an important strategic decision so that supplier selection is a prime concern. In the semiconductor industry, the prior researches worked on analyzing and improving the process, and evaluating the equipment manufacturers. Therefore, being the semiconductor industry applying a wide huge of advanced...

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

Supplier selection negotiation is a challenged, complex, and nondeterministic problem. To solve the problem well, it is necessary to develop an intelligent system for negotiation support in supplier selection process. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful algorithm which can be used for the price offer in supplier selection negotiation with the aim of maximizing the demander’s profits. In t...

As supply chains continue to globalize, the need for robust supplier qualification and supplier selection and evaluation programs becomes increasingly critical. In this context, this paper aims to present a methodological approach for the optimization of the procurement processes in today’s globalized supply chains. More specifically, we first provide a categorization of the relevant past resea...