This article establishes a rating system for supplier’s performance from the orientation of customer satisfaction by objective-orientation driving. Its purpose is to provide a methodology of “how to integrate the capabilities between supplier and manufacturer, and to apply different strategies under the needs of quality improvements”. This study is undertaken to specify the interaction and mutu...

Traditional DEA method is improper for supplier evaluation and selection, as it adopts varying weights in evaluation, and fails to consider competition among the suppliers. In order to solve these two problems, Nash bargaining game DEA model is applied to supplier evaluation in present paper. However, there is a non-uniqueness problem with Nash bargaining game efficiency of supplier in existing...

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To remain competitive in customer-oriented economics, the major parties in the supply chain should be integrated and managed effectively to respond to customer needs. Thus, the efficiency of the entire supply chain is a main concern, and is determined by the members of that supply chain. Partner selection thus becomes one of the key steps in supply chain construction. Given buyer–supplier infor...

Supplier evaluation and selection, an important element in supplier-based manufacturing and supply chain management has been gaining attention in both academic literature and industrial practice. In this paper, we presented a modified data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for supplier selection which can operate under conditions of imprecise information. A brief description of the importance o...

Supplier evaluation is an important process in supply chain. To our best knowledge, we firstly report a study on supplier classification problem for efficiency and performance in the meanwhile, which is to aim at reducing the risk of enterprises and finding the suppliers with both high efficiency and performance. This paper proposed an integrated model, which hybridized data envelopment analysi...

Abstract Electric power market competition is intense. The competition between the various power plants will is the contest of economic efficiency as the core. Fuel cost is the center link of production management and economic accounting in thermal power plant, so selection management of the coal-fired supplier has great significance for the development of thermal power enterprise and improveme...

This paper presents the development of a model based decision support system with a case study on solving the supplier selection problem in a chemical processing industry. For the evaluation and selection of supplier, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) were used. The intention of the study is to propose an appropriate platform for process industries in ...

Supply chain management has increasingly been recognized as a key driver of overall operational and financial performance. In this study we focus on supplier relations in financial services processes and empirically examine the relationship between supplier relations and supply chain performance using a unique database with a sample of 108 financial services processes. Our results show that, af...