Supplier selection is a multi criteria decision-making problem that comprises tangible and intangible factors. The majority of previous supplier selection techniques do not consider strategic perspective. Besides, uncertainty is one of the most important obstacles in supplier selection. In this paper, quantified SWOT is applied in the context of supplier selection for the first time. SWOT (Stre...

This explorative study examines customer-supplier relationships from the perspective of psychological contracts. Based on findings from a multiple case study, the content of the psychological contracts of individuals involved in customer-supplier relationships are presented. The study provides support for the use of psychological contracts for describing the dynamics of customer-supplier relati...

Today’s business environment has forced manufacturers and plants to produce high-quality products at low cost and the shortest possible delivery time. To cope with this challenge, manufacturing organizations need to optimize the manufacturing and other functions that are in logical association with each other. Therefore, manufacturing system design and supplier selection process are linked toge...

The need for Supply Chain efficiency, agility and innovation has never been greater. When the current economic pressures and the ever growing global network of suppliers are taken into account, supplier visibility and risk mitigation are quickly added to the ongoing needs of improved efficiency, agility and innovation. Supply chains are also sources of competitive advantage, so more tools are n...

In a business-to-business (B2B) environment, most if not every large company interacts with suppliers, customers, and competitors on one or more Net markets, connecting to both ends of the supply chain, the supplier side and the customer side. To support purchasing agents, analysts, and managers in evaluating their purchasing decisions, a new analytical tool is presented, the Marketplace Compet...

Purpose: This paper describes the perceived effects of implementing lean production in a Swedish SME contract manufacturer. Especially focused are the effects on, and possible tradeoffs between, cost-efficiency and flexibility. Design/methodology/approach: SME suppliers need basic capabilities of qualitative production performance as stepping-stones to develop more system supplier capabilities ...

We consider a supplier and a customer operating under a service agreement that requires the supplier to cover the random customer demand with high probability. To fulfill the service agreement, the supplier carries a certain amount of safety stock. The customer has some bearing on its demand variability, possibly through activities such as acquiring advance demand information, employing more so...

    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...

In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. Selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. Suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. Any suppl...