The relationship between the manufacturer and supplier has changed from one of competition into that of greater cooperation during recent years. The selection and evaluation of suppliers are primary and important issues when an enterprise implements Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and Total Quality Management (TQM). Much research indicates that most enterprises tend to evaluate their sup...

Due to the increasing competition of globalization, selection of the most appropriate supplier is one of the key factors for the success of a supply chain management. Due to conflicting evaluations and insufficient information about the criteria, Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) are considered as an impressive tool and utilized to specify the relative importance of the criteria. The aim of this...

The research reported in this study investigates the initial development of a framework of supplier selection in the context of Taiwanese agribusiness. The importance of this research lies in the fact that although supplier selection has been researched across a range of industries, there is little evidence of its application to the agribusiness sector. From the existing literature, a prelimina...

Supplier selection problem is a multi-criteria decision making problem which includes both qualitative and quantitative factors. In the selection process many criteria may conflict with each other, therefore decision-making process becomes complicated. In this paper, we propose a compensatory fuzzy approach to solve multi-objective linear supplier selection problemwith multiple-item (MLSSP-MI) ...

Supplier selection problem is an important issue in supply chain management and includes both tangible and intangible factors. Within the effect of the intangible factors, decision making in supplier selection problem includes a high degree of fuzziness and uncertainties in practice. In academic research to handle this uncertainty and vagueness, Fuzzy Set Theory is used as an effective tool. Th...

The study aims to identify and evaluate the key criteria for food supplier selection in Indonesian hospitality industry. A survey was sent experts Indonesia based on their opinions were evaluated using Grey Relational Analysis (GRA). found that price is most important criteria, followed by quality, return-ability of problematic food. also reports variation distinguishing coefficient GRA influen...

Supplier selection serves as the most critical factor in supply chain, which involves several criteria. The of right supplier supports company's competition. To support decision-making, a credible and practical decision-making method is thus required. This study aims to integrate Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) PROMETHEE II methods for selection. In utilizing this method, AHP utilized determin...

Supplier selection is an important issue in supply chain management (SCM), and essentially is a multi-criteria decision-making problem. Supplier selection highly depends on experts’ assessments. In the process of that, it inevitably involves various types of uncertainty such as imprecision, fuzziness and incompleteness due to the inability of human being’s subjective judgment. However, the exis...