Building smart supply chains have attracted huge attentions from practitioners and academia, but not all initiatives are a success due to limited practical implications theories guiding the selection of appropriate innovation models. In light this gap, according characteristics chain, study adopted multi-case approach with data collected through semi-structured interview was analysed via mixed ...

Vendor performance plays a key role in price, quality, timely delivery and service in achieving the goals of the supply chain. Given this, today's supplier performance has become a critical element in the success or failure of a company. In this study, an idealized planning model with multi-criteria decision-making approach with network analysis tool based on the expansion of fuzzy quality func...

one of important issues in designing a supply chain is supplier selection. this issue is complicated, because each supplier should satisfy some criteria from buyer and choosing among them is actually a multi criteria decision making problem. so, there is a need for a structured and systematic approach to solve this problem. in this article, we address supplier selection in an advertising indust...

Selection favours single-celled mutants that stick together when a sugar needed for growth is in short supply, suggesting that multicellular life may have evolved as a by-product of selection for more efficient usage of resources.

On the basis of the polyclonal selection algorithm, an improved polyclonal selection algorithm based on negative selection is put forward in this paper. Inspired by the diversity and auto-tolerance of the negative selection, the population diversity is increased by the clone deletion and clone supply to improve the polyclonal selection algorithm. Finally, the optimization design of the crane bo...

This study aims at assessing if benefits, based on the economic performance of farms operating in an agro-food supply chain, are generated by a vertical coordination. A panel data (2008–2011) of durum wheat producers was used, namely the Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). Outcomes of coordinated and non-coordinated farms with equal farm and farmer characteristics were calculated thro...

performance of a supply chain highly depends on its suppliers and therefore, appropriate selection of them is of great importance. this paper presents an integrated model of an mcdm method and a mathematical programming in order to select suppliers and determine lot sizes in the supply chain. the proposed framework comprises two main sub-models; the qualitative sub-model seeks to evaluate the s...

One of important problems in supply chains management is supplier selection. In a company, there are massive data from various departments so that extracting knowledge from the company’s data is too complicated. Many researchers have solved this problem by some methods like fuzzy set theory, goal programming, multi objective programming, the liner programming, mixed integer programming, analyti...