<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ba...

This paper will discuss determinants of supplier selection and evaluation, their impact on business key performance indicators with a focus on telecom companies. This research is causal by nature. Interviews were conducted from the heads, managers and specialists of the supply chain department. Data was gathered through questionnaire distributed among the practitioners. Different statistical to...

Supplier selection and allocating orders to supplier is a complex multi objective problem which includes both quantitative and qualitative factors. In order to achieve an efficient solution in the quantitative factors, a Multi Objective Fuzzy Linear Programming [MOFLP] model with fuzziness in objective, resources, technological coefficient and resources for the proposed weighted additive model ...

Supplier selection is a process of selecting a supplier adopted by any industry for the proper functioning of the firm and to sustain in the industrial market. In a virtual organization, the main function of the company is to make the core of the system and depend on a large network of suppliers for the rest sub-assemblies needed for building the system. Thus there should always be a good partn...

In this paper, a framework for integrating environmental factors into the supplier selection process is presented. Traditionally, companies consider factors like quality, flexibility, etc. when evaluating supplier performance. However, environmental pressure is increasing, resulting in many companies (mainly large companies) beginning to consider environmental issues and the measurement of thei...

A company must purchase a lot of diverse components and raw material from different upstream suppliers to manufacture or assemble its products. Under this situation the supplier selection has become a critical issue for the purchasing department.The selection of suppliers depends on number of criteria and the challenge is to optimize selection process based on critical criteria and select the b...

Many companies have changed their focus from short-term purchasing transactions to supply chain management, concentrating on developing long-term relations with suppliers. Thus, selecting a supplier commits the organization and its resources to an outsider for a long time, and any mistake in this selection adversely affects the stability of the organization. Moreover, the continual increase in ...

Supplier selection is an important issue in supply chain management. In recent years, determining the best supplier in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, these decisions usually involve several objectives or criteria, and it is often necessary to compromise among possibly conflicting factors. Thus, the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) becomes a useful ap...

Supplier selection problem (SSP) is a problem to select the best among suppliers based on input and output data of the suppliers. Since different uncontrollable and unpredictable parameters are affecting selection, choosing the best supplier is a complicated process. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a method for measuring efficiency and inefficiencies of Decision Making Units (DMUs). While, t...

recently, much attention has been given to stochastic demand due to uncertainty in the real -world. in the literature, decision-making models and suppliers' selection do not often consider inventory management as part of shopping problems. on the other hand, the environmental sustainability of a supply chain depends on the shopping strategy of the supply chain members. the supplier selection pl...