Supplier selection is an important problem in supply chain management (SCM), and has attracted the attention of many researchers. Tremendous effort has been spent on the development of agent-based systems to automate supplier selection negotiation process in SCM applications. In this kind of multiagent system (MAS), software agents are established to represent various parties and functions invo...

The selection of suppliers had always been a key point of the supply chain management, directly impact the operation of supply chain. In this context, firstly introduced the study situation of supplier selection, established the evaluation index system based on the research and then puts forward a new method for supplier selection based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Finally, using an example to...

In many industries such as automotive industry, there are a lot of suppliers dealing with the final products manufacturer. With growing numbers of suppliers, the suppliers’ efficiency measurement often becomes the most significant concern for manufacturers. Therefore, various performance measurement models such as DEA, AHP, TOPSIS, are developed to support supplier selection decisions. After an...

Due to the importance of supplier selection issue in supply chain management (SCM) and ,also,  the increasing tendency of organizations to their social responsibilities, In this paper, we survey the supplier selection issue as a multi objective problem while considering the factor of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a mathematical parameter. The purpose of this paper is to design a mode...

The rigorous pressure for outsourcing and competitive marketing has exerted firms to rethink about supplier selection strategies. To date, an extensive range of criteria and methods have been proposed to solve supplier selection and order allocation problems. The supplier selection problem is often faced by ambiguity and vagueness in practice. Very often decision makers express their preference...

In most industries the cost of raw materials and component parts constitutes the main cost of a product, such that in some cases it can account for up to 70%.In such circumstances decision making of purchasing management can play a key role in cost reduction. In today’s highly competitive environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important to the success of any manufacturing ...

Supplier evaluation and selection is one of the most important components of an effective supply chain management system. Due to the expanding competition in healthcare, selecting the right medical device suppliers offers great potential for increasing quality while decreasing costs. This paper proposes a fuzzy decision making approach for medical supplier selection. A real-world medical device...

Today’s business environment has forced manufacturers and plants to produce high-quality products at low cost and the shortest possible delivery time. To cope with this challenge, manufacturing organizations need to optimize the manufacturing and other functions that are in logical association with each other. Therefore, manufacturing system design and supplier selection process are linked toge...

Supplier selection is considered as one of the most critical issues encountered by operations and purchasing managers to sharpen the company’s competitive advantage. In this paper, a novel fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making approach integrating quality function deployment (QFD) and decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method is proposed for supplier selection. The p...