The sustainable Supplier Evaluation and Selection Order Allocation (SSOA) problem has received significant attention in supply chain management due to its potential enhance a company’s performance, improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs. In this study, an integrated methodology is proposed address the SSOA problem. combines multiple techniques handle uncertainties associated with supplier ...

This study aims to minimize the total cost of a four-echelon supply chain including suppliers, an assembler, distributers, and retailers. The total cost consists of purchasing raw materials from the suppliers by the assembler, assembling the final product, materials transportation from the suppliers to the assembler, product transportation from the assembler to the distributors, product transpo...

The decision of information technology (IT) outsourcing requires close attention to the evaluation of supplier selection process because the selection decision involves conflicting multiple criteria and is replete with complex decision making problems. Selecting the most appropriate suppliers is considered an important strategic decision that may impact the performance of outsourcing engagement...

For any organization, the most important decision is purchasing goods and services selection is one of the most critical activities of purchase management in supply chain. Significant suppliers play an important role in the competitive market. Better suppliers perform the better organization. The supplier selection of a leading automobile organization is analyzed in this study. Analytic Network...

This study aims to establish a green supplier selection and guidance mechanism by integrating the features of an ANP (Analytic Network Process) and an IPA (Importance–Performance Analysis) to achieve sustainable management for green supply chains. Using an expert survey, this study developed green supplier selection criteria. It adopted an ANP, which allows for interdependencies and feedback be...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a widely recognized approach for evaluating the efficiencies of decision making units (dmus). because of easy and successful application and case studies, dea has gained much attention and widespread use by business and academy researchers. the conventional dea models (e.g. bcc and ccr) make an assumption that input and output data are exact values on a ratio ...

nowadays, suppliers in order to maintain and improve their positions against othernational and international suppliers take advantage of their brand equity, but the problem is that industrial suppliers do not know what factors are influencing for development and promotion industrial brand equity and also do not know how to enhance brand equity, to improve brand performance in industrial markets...

Although the benefits of involving suppliers in new product development (NPD) under technological uncertainty are not unambiguously affirmed, many firms need to involve suppliers under these circumstances anyway as not all technological knowledge resides within the firm. Previous research argues that purchasing fulfils an important role in involving the suppliers in NPD. However, purchasing’s r...

Supplier selection, which is the first step of the activities in the product realization process starting from the purchasing of material till to the end of delivering the products, is evaluated as a critical factor for the companies desiring to be successful in nowadays competition conditions. With the scope of this paper, supplier selection was considered as a multi criteria decision problem ...

We propose a new network service (called CollectCast) suitable for highly dynamic environments such as peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. CollectCast operates entirely at the application level. Nonetheless, it does try to infer and exploit the properties of the underlying network. CollectCast has a pattern of “multiple senders and one receiver”. CollectCast reflects the P2P philosophy of dynamically a...