Economic crises stress trade-offs between costs and sustainability for environmentally orientated firms impacting supply-chain management decisions. Inspired by the disruption to supply caused COVID-19 pandemic, we explore supplier selection during a financial crisis, studying impact of psychological distance on cost–environmental performance trade-off. Across three experiments (N = 420), exami...

Numerous studies have demonstrated that firms consider multiple criteria when selecting key suppliers. In this study, we present, based on econometric choice modeling framework, how manufacturing managers/executives tradeoff between cost, delivery, flexibility, and service features in the supplier selection process, given acceptable quality. Empirical data for this study was collected from manu...

In today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment, an effective supplier selection process is very important for the success of any business organization. Selection of the best supplier is always a difficult task for the purchasing manager. Suppliers have varied strengths and weaknesses which require careful assessment by the purchasing manager before selecting and ranking them. Any suppl...

The research on service supply chain has attracted more and more focus from both academia and industrial community. In a service supply chain, the selection of supplier portfolio is an important and difficult problem due to the fact that a supplier portfolio may include multiple suppliers from a variety of fields. To address this problem, we propose a novel supplier portfolio selection method b...

Power grid equipment is the guarantee of the safe and stable operation of power grids, selecting rational power grid equipment suppliers is the focus of power grid enterprise. In order to select the equipment supplier for grid enterprises more objectively and comprehensively, this paper proposes a power grid equipment supplier selection method based on cloud model and hesitant linguistic inform...

Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from corporate activities are gradually becoming a mainstream management issue for businesses. The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Corporate Standard has been adopted as the international standard to report a corporation’s overall emission profile of their value chain activities. Through Scope 3 Corporate Standard, companies can recognize potential emissions and associated ...

This paper studies the risks in demand information sharing applications by electronic soft-orders using electronic data interchange (EDI) systems in e-commerce and aims to suggest a sustainable regulation mechanism with a trust-embedded contract. In a supply chain with one retailer and one supplier, the retailer solicits private forecasted demand and places soft-orders via EDI to the supplier. ...

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...

The concern of sustainable supplier selection has been raised recently in organizations’ decision making to enhance their competitiveness. Many tools have developed support evaluation, yet the factors Industry 4.0 (I4.0) ignored despite impact on performance. Hence, this paper aims include technology I4.0 as criteria evaluate competence suppliers sustainability. Multiple-criteria (MCDM) used bu...