This research report provides preliminary results in terms of ERP system selection criteria across five European Union countries based on empirical studies. The paper provides a structured list of decision making criteria considered in ERP decisions and contrasts weights as well as achievement levels across countries. Research was guided by the Delone & McLean Information Systems (D&M IS) succe...

This research report provides preliminary results in terms of ERP system selection criteria across five European Union countries based on empirical studies. The paper provides a structured list of decision making criteria considered in ERP decisions and contrasts weights as well as achievement levels across countries. Research was guided by the Delone & McLean Information Systems (D&M IS) succe...

Supplier selection is usually involved a multi-criteria evaluation to assist decision-making. This study proposed a simple method for vendor selection. The proposed procedure utilizes the structure of criteria in analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model and employs consistent fuzzy preference relations (CFPR) to construct the decision matrices. The advantage of CFPR is computational simplicity an...

The increasing variety of breast implants has led to their classification into "profile" types to guide implant cataloguing and selection. Implant "profile" describes the overall silhouette of the implant. It represents a permutation of all 3 dimensions of the implant: base diameter, projection, and volume. Implant "profile" is not the same as implant projection. Implant projection is a quantif...

The expert system discussed in this chapter, the Expert System to Software Package Selection (ESSS), was developed motivated by the needs of small bussines to support the software packages selection task. ESSS, is a rule based expert system designed to evaluate software packages using the ranking approach. ESSS evaluates software packages using six factors, and point values appropiate for each ...

Commodity acquisition is one of the most critical tasks in a firm especially for an accountancy department. Because of imprecise and uncertain product requirements, firm accountants have to make their best effort at this stage. Determining the most critical criteria for commodity acquisition process is a vital means for a firm to balance its limited budget. Therefore, firms have used different ...

ERP software investments have various tangible and intangible costs and benefits that have to be made explicit in the investment process. Also several kinds of risks are present and they have to be assessed. In this study we investigate the criteria that are emphasized when making decisions on acquiring ERP software packages by Finnish SME’s. Furthermore, we describe the initial findings about ...

the primary purpose of this paper is to highlight for the research community and practitioners the various aspects of using vmi-type supply chains in today’s business environment as well as a number of directions for future studies. in this regard, fifty articles published in major international journals, beginning in 1995, which contribute to the vmi-type supply chains are reviewed via a syste...

this paper develops a single-vendor single-retailer supply chain for multi-product. the proposed model is based on vendor managed inventory (vmi) approach and vendor uses the retailer's data for better decision making. number of orders and available capital are the constraints of the model. in this system, shortages are backordered; therefore, the vendor’s warehouse capacity is another limitati...

The objective of this paper is to analyze entropy based Vendor Selection Problem (VSP) model by using fuzzy mathematical programming and primal-dual geometric programming method. Here we have extended the unconstrained convex programming approach to solve VSP model with inequality constraints without adding artificial variables. By t-norm based fuzzy mathematical programming technique and the d...