Background and Objectives: The selection of the sustainable supplier is important for any industry. Medical centers are not an exception in this case, and selecting the best sustainable supplier is a major step towards increasing their productivity. This paper, using the Data Envelopment Analysis and then using Multi-Attributed Utility Theory as a backup approach to fix errors, attempts t...

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.09.037 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +31 15 27 81716; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J. Rezaei), j.r. 1 Tel.: +31 15 27 84815; fax: +31 15 27 83177. One of the strategic activities of a firm is supplier segmentation, whereby a firm creates groups of suppliers to handle them differently. Existing ...

Customer trust in suppliers becomes today one of the most important criteria for evaluating partners and establishing efficient supply chain partnerships. Decision makers need to assess this intangible criterion with regards to its influencing factors in order to integrate it in their decisional processes. In this paper, a customer trust index is designed as the trust level arising from the inf...

In order to standout from competition in the global market, companies must rely on competent suppliers. The supplier development program is designed to create and maintain a network of competent suppliers, which has a major influence on the competitive advantages of a buying company. The existing literatures on supplier development all adopt “one-size-fit-all” strategies. However, to allocate s...

Vendor performance plays a key role in price, quality, timely delivery and service in achieving the goals of the supply chain. Given this, today's supplier performance has become a critical element in the success or failure of a company. In this study, an idealized planning model with multi-criteria decision-making approach with network analysis tool based on the expansion of fuzzy quality func...

Supplier E-Marketplaces prevalently offer composite products that require complex production processes where multiple suppliers cooperate with each other. Since collaborating suppliers often hold overlapping production competencies multiple process alternatives may exist where production steps are allocated to suppliers in different ways. This process variability may be exploited for a supplier...

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...

Abstract Suppliers play an important role in supporting the supply chain within company. Therefore, evaluation of suppliers company is a problem that studied to improve performance company’s chain. The purpose this study evaluate green using Analytic Network Process (ANP)-Technique for order by similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS). ANP used weigh each factor and criteria, TOPSIS suppliers. This r...