Supply chain and industrial cluster are the results of competition economy. Clustering analysis enable more efficient supply chain management practices. In this paper, we focus our discussion on the rough set theory for clustering supplier chain management. We propose ROSMAN (ROugh Set approach for clustering Supplier chain MANagement), an alternative algorithm for clustering supplier base mana...

We consider a single-product periodic-review inventory system for a retailer who has adopted a dual sourcing strategy to cope with potential supply process interruptions. Orders are placed to a perfectly reliable supplier and/or to a less reliable supplier that offers a better price. The success of an order placed to the unreliable supplier depends on his supply status that has a Markovian natu...

supplier selection is one of the critical activities for firms to gain competitive advantage and achieve the objectives of the whole supply chain. in this paper based on a dea-topsis method for madm problems a flexible strategy for supplier selection is introduced

Introduction Supplier development and management systems of U.S. aircraft manufacturers have evolved rapidly during the 1990s in an environment of reduced military procurement and a worldwide slump in commercial aircraft sales. The result has been an ongoing restructuring within the aircraft industry supplier base, with significant implications for customer-supplier relationships and, potential...

Previous studies suggest that information technology (IT) is critical to the development of collaboration between supply chain partners. Our study posits that the effect of IT is not predetermined by its technological capabilities. Rather, its effect on interorganizational collaboration is the emergent properties of the interplay between IT and existing relationships between partners. Based on ...

We study a supply chain with two suppliers competing over a contract to supply components to a manufacturer. One of the suppliers is a big company for whom the manufacturer’s business constitutes a small part of his business. The other supplier is a small company for whom the manufacturer’s business constitutes a large portion of his business. We analyze the problem from the perspective of the ...

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Successful supply chain management necessitates an effective sourcing strategy to combat uncertainties in both supply and demand. In particular, supply disruption results in excessive downtime of production resources, upstream and downstream supply chain repercussions, and eventually a loss in the market value of the firm. In this paper we analyze single period, single product sourcing decision...

Supplier selection plays an important role in the supply chain management and traditional criteria such as price, quality, and flexibility are considered for supplier performance evaluation in researches. In recent years sustainability has received more attention in the supply chain management literature with triple bottom line (TBL) describing the sustainability in supply chain management with...

  Most supplier selection models consider the buyer’s viewpoint and maximize only the buyer’s profit. This does not necessarily lead to an optimal situation for all the members of a supply chain. Coordination models have been developed to optimize the entire supply chain and align the decisions between its entities. Little research has been done on the application of these models in the supplie...