We study a competitive supply marketplace where multiple suppliers offer a single nondifferentiated product to multiple buyers. Within this multi-supplier, multi-buyer marketplace, each buyer chooses the supply partner that serves the buyer’s order profile, described by his order size and delivery frequency, with the best price. Suppliers differ from each other in terms of their logistic cost s...

The mainstream view holds that over time buyer–supplier relationships evolve through a number of phases. As a consequence, supplier development as a buyer–supplier relationship management practice should also be adapted to the life-cycle phase. Supplier development activities matching the buyer– supplier relationship life-cycle phase will lead to more favorable performance improvements. However...

One of the most important activities in the management of input items of a company is focusing on the process of purchasing, supplier selection and allocating order to suppliers. Decisions about supplier selection due to simultaneously taking inconsistent and diverse issues into account in a wide range of strategic to operational factors, and from quantitative to qualitative criteria will be co...

The aims of the current study are to determine criteria be considered in a green supplier selection (GSS) process, develop an integrated decision-making approach using structural equation modelling (SEM) and fuzzy additive ratio assessment (ARAS) techniques rank suitable suppliers, investigate effectiveness this collective decision-making. study’s ultimate objective is propose method created fr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance outcomes of strategic sourcing, specifically examining how strategic sourcing affects buyer‐supplier relationship, supplier evaluation, and sourcing performance from the buying firm's perspective in the context of the US textile and apparel industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study provides an empirical investigation of ...

nowadays, with technology progress and the emergence of new business models, increased levels of competition and changing demands and expectations of customers, using multi channels of distribution is growing rapidly. the coordination and integration of these channels with high efficiency and the elimination of these challenges requires more discussion. the purpose of this study is to investiga...

With the growing social and environmental concerns, integration of sustainability in supplier selection order allocation is paramount importance. This research presents a holistic multi-...