Small and medium-sized textile enterprises (SMTEs) contribute to the UK economy. Anecdotal evidence indicates that many SMTEs fail secure enough orders from British retailers. So, this paper reports on methodological decision analysis model qualitative linear weighted point method (LWPM) develop pertinent critical success criteria virtually distribute bulk equitably. The relevant are stated for...

ion of the non-negative natural numbers. The correctness of the complete analysis then follows from the subject reduction result of [13] that allows us to lift safety (as opposed to liveness) results from the behaviours to safety results for CML programs. We also address the implementation of the second stage of the analysis. Here the idea is to transform the problem as speci ed by the syntax-d...

Because the purchasing department can play a key role in cost reduction, supplier selection and order allocation are the most important functions of purchasing management. In view of its complexity, it will be focused especially on the final selection stage that consists of determining the best mixture of suppliers and allocating orders among them so as to satisfy different purchasing requireme...

The ability to assess and select new suppliers quickly and efficiently is a critical requirement for improving the agility of manufacturing supply chains. The Digital Manufacturing Market (DMM) is a web-based platform for intelligent supply chain configuration. This research enhances the DMM’s performance by developing a column generation method for solving the supplier selection problem. The o...

This paper applied a mixed integer programming approach to solve the sourcing and order allocation problem with multiple products and multiple suppliers in a supply chain. The decision process is driven bymultiple objectives and a set of constraints. Two schemes of quantity discounts are used to compare the influence upon the buying decisions. An example and an experimental test are presented t...