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...

Supplier selection is the process by which firms identify, evaluate, and contract with suppliers. The supplier selection process deploys a tremendous amount of a firm’s financial resources. In return, firms expect significant benefits from contracting with suppliers offering high value. This article describes the typical steps of supplier selection processes: identifying suppliers, soliciting i...

The ability to assess and select new suppliers quickly and efficiently is a critical requirement for improving the agility of manufacturing supply chains. The Digital Manufacturing Market (DMM) is a web-based platform for intelligent supply chain configuration. This research enhances the DMM’s performance by developing a column generation method for solving the supplier selection problem. The o...

Abstract—In the last decades, concerns about the environmental issues lead to professional and academic efforts on green supplier selection problems. In this sake, one of the main issues in evaluating the green supplier selection problems, which could increase the uncertainty, is the preferences of the experts' judgments about the candidate green suppliers. Therefore, preparing an expert system...

this research aims at developing original components of decision support system (dss) in order to support the evaluation and selection of suppliers in multi products having limited capacity. to achieve this purpose, researchers have proposed three different models based on which suppliers allow selecting their own desired type of discount. firstly based on the performed studies, some criteria h...

In this paper we propose a nonlinear Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) model to optimize the 2-dimensional continuous location and allocation of the potential facilities based on their maximum capacity and the given coordinates of the suppliers and customer points. The model belongs to the class of Capacitated Multi-facility Weber Problem. We propose a bilevel decomposition algorithm th...

Little attention is given in the literature to decisions on the appropriate selection of suppliers, and on assigning order quantities to these suppliers, in the case of multiple sourcing, with multiple criteria and with suppliers' capacity constraints. Only a few mathematical programming models to analyse such decisions have been published to date, and these have tended to consider only net pri...

In this paper, we present a model of lean supplier management between an OEM and its suppliers for the objectives of eliminating wastes, reducing cost and improvement continuously based on the lean production. This model includes supplier selection and categorization, supplier improvement, supplier certification and supplier evaluation. First, the supplier selection process and some basic princ...