One of the most common and successful approaches for integrated supply chain management (SCM) is vendor-managed inventory (VMI). In VMI, a vendor takes control decisions retailers. To establish long-run relationship between retailer, it necessary to consider two impactful factors: vendors retailers' reliability, optimal selection For this purpose, redundancy allocation problem (RAP), as an effe...

Background: Excessive use of plastic bags has become a major problem in the worldwide causing irreparable damages to the environment and humans. The purpose of this study was to identify the individual and environmental factors associated with the use of plastic bags among the vendors of Hadishahr city, Iran. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted on 400 vendors workin...

In the ever-changing business world, appropriate vendor selection can be crucial in supply chain management. Dynamic models supporting vendors with time axis are not always crisp; rather they involve a high degree of fuzziness and uncertainty in real life situations. This paper proposes a dynamic model with uncertainty based on Fuzzy AHP for long-term strategic vendor selection problems. The se...

The growth in the information technology (IT) services market and the increasing tendency of firms to outsource some or all of their IT functions necessitate better mechanisms for selecting IT vendors. For most projects, there are a multitude of potential vendors that differ in quality and other aspects that are difficult to assess at the time of contracting. In addition, many projects have out...

Vendors are suppliers of goods or services that help the production process a company. One companies carry out vendor selection is CV Milyarda Cipta Karya which engaged in fashion. Vendor an activity to determine vendors who will work with company process. Based on assessment 30 most popular Karya's products Shopee, there consumer complaints about inconsistent quality materials. This problem ca...

In software engineering, maintenance is the process of correction, updating, and improvement products after handed over to customer. Through offshore outsourcing (OSMO) clients can get advantages like reduce cost, save time, improve quality. most cases, OSMO vendor generates considerable revenue. However, selection an appropriate proposal among multiple one critical problems for vendors. The pu...

A number of research and development projects in the U.S. and in Europe have shown that novel technologies can open significant perspectivesfor hospital information systems (HIS). The selection of software products for a HIS, however, is still nontrivial. Generalist vendors promise a broad scope offunctionality and integration, while specialist vendors promise elaborated and highly adaptedfunct...

The agile electronics manufacturing enterprise must rapidly develop new products by close interaction with their supplier network. Design for manufacturing must occur in this extended and distributed enterprise across traditional organizational boundaries. This paper proposes the use of information models to support this activity. A manufacturing model is built using the EXPRESS information mod...