This paper designs a bidding and supplier evaluation model focused on strategic product procurement, and develops their respective evaluation knowledge bases. The model is built using the most relevant variables cited in the reviewed procurement literature and allows to compare two evaluation methods: a factor weighting method (WM) and a fuzzy inference system (FIS). By consulting an expert pan...

In today’s highly competitive business environment, evaluation of suppliers is the prime function of the purchasing department of the organization. It is due to the fact that high percentage of the material cost for manufacturing of a product is involved. Identification of decision criteria and methods for supplier evaluation are appearing to be the important research area in the literature. In...

activity-based costing 154–61 and outsourcing evaluation 158–59 stages in analysis 155–56 allocate activity costs 155–56 allocate overhead costs 155 create a cost pool for each activity 155 determine the cost drivers 155 adversarial supplier relationships characteristics of 234 and supplier selection criteria 248 Air France 11 Amazon 15, 107, 126 American Express 167, 188, 193 Apple 92, 93 AT&T...

In this paper, the authors analyze 91 key account relationships and 206 ordinary supplier–buyer dyads regarding differences in suppliers' relational behaviors and customers' perceptions of relationship quality (satisfaction, trust, and commitment). The results suggest that while – as compared to ordinary relationships – suppliers put significantly more effort in “value-creating behaviors” in ke...

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...

Although supplier alliances are widely considered as an effective source of competitive advantage by firms operating in uncertain business environments, the literature offers inconsistent suggestions concerning how environmental uncertainty affects supplier alliances. The framework of transaction cost economics (TCE) suggests that, when environmental uncertainty is present to a nontrivial but n...

The development and management of an effective and efficient supply chain involve the selection of the suppliers. Only economic criteria, including cost and delivery, once used to be considered in the process of supplier selection. But, they do not suffice for the evaluation of suppliers anymore due to the rapidly changing environment, and different perspectives are needed to be considered. The...

An evaluating mechanism-based cloud computing trust model is raised to aim at the issue of how the cloud service user selects credible cloud service supplier. The trust model constitutes an evaluating system about service behavior between cloud service supplier and cloud service user. After formalized evaluation about entity achieved, certain algorithm would be used to get the trust and trust v...