In the face of acute global competition, supplier management is rapidly emerging as a crucial issue to any companies striving for business success and sustainable development. To optimize competitive advantages, a company should incorporate ‘‘suppliers” as an essential part of its core competencies. Supplier evaluation, the first step in supplier management, is a complex multi-criteria decision...

The fuzzy logic is applied to resolve the monitoring problem of products quality and products quantity increasingly varying as market requirement. A series of fuzzy rules are employed and the fuzzy system may generate suggested supply change rate. At the same time, the operation of supplier is also dynamically changing and the evaluation and selection for supplier are the basis of supply –chain...

Supply chain partnership is viewed as an important contributor to superior competitiveness; yet, the knowledge of ex-ante factors contributing deployment supply nascent. This article examines influence current supplier selection routines, evaluation routines and managerial attitude towards relational performance risks on future intention form buyer–supplier partnerships, based evolutionary econ...

Supplier performance evaluation is a decision-making problem that involves quantitative and qualitative metrics. Although several models allow the use of linguistic terms such as "low" "high" to evaluate suppliers, none them enables application expressions, which especially useful when decision makers hesitates express their evaluations. This study proposes model based on Hesitant Fuzzy TOPSIS ...

The supplier selection process is considered one of the most relevant decisions in supply chain management due to its effect on product quality and buyer performance. Supplier often unstructured, generally based lowest-price proposal. However, this type involves a high risk, sometimes resulting project delays, poor acquired goods, large financial losses. Price undoubtedly an important criterion...

To remain competitive in customer-oriented economics, the major parties in the supply chain should be integrated and managed effectively to respond to customer needs. Thus, the efficiency of the entire supply chain is a main concern, and is determined by the members of that supply chain. Partner selection thus becomes one of the key steps in supply chain construction. Given buyer–supplier infor...