Though Open Book Accounting (OBA) is a well-known practice in supply chain management, the lack of guidelines to support managers to implement it effectively has been highlighted in the literature. This paper discusses a methodology to support the selection of suppliers with whom to successfully cooperate in OBA projects and the identification, for each buyer–supplier dyad, of appropriate incen...

This paper proposed a decision model for supplier recommendation in a supply chain management system. The proposed model exploited the use of suppliers’ information and past purchasing history to create a list of potential suppliers of a raw material. The Satake Corporation (Thailand) was selected to be a case study of this research project. To evaluate the proposed model, all purchasing inform...

The design of supplier relationship management to facilitate supplier selection using an integrative case based supplier selection and help desk approach to select the most appropriate suppliers together with their past performance records from a case base warehouse has become a promising solution for manufacturers to identify preferred suppliers and trading partners to form a supply network on...

Final quality of products/services starts with suppliers in the supply chain. Problems can occur if suppliers do not deliver the quantities requested in full, on time, or buyers select suppliers solely on the basis of lowest price. Supplier selection has been studied for large businesses but not for very small (micro) businesses. Therefore, a survey was administered to micro-businesses to deter...

With the increasing environmental awareness, apparel manufacturers have begun to consider environmental issues in supplier evaluation and selection. It is crucial to assess suppliers based on their environmental performance along with other criteria for supplier selection. This paper addresses the green supplier evaluation and selection problem in global apparel manufacturing by developing a me...

Supplier’s Selection is one among the foremost essential activities of supply chain management. Supplier’s Selection could be an advanced activity involving qualitative and quantitative multi-criteria. A trade-off between these tangible and intangible factors is essential in choosing the most effective Supplier.This paper explains the various methodsfor supplier selection and the use of AHP in ...

In this paper, we consider the supplier selection problem for normally distributed processes with multiple independent characteristics based on process capability index A two-phase testing procedure based on the quotient of two statistics is proposed to deal with the problem. We obtain the sampling distribution and the probability density function of the quotient. Several tables of the critical...

Within a supply chain, purchasing plays a key role in achieving corporate competition. Hence, selecting the right suppliers is a vital component of these strategies. In practice, supplier selection is a multiobjective programming problem with vagueness and imprecision of the input data. In spite of the importance of the problem, the literature on this subject is relatively scarce. In this paper...

This paper formulates supplier evaluation and selection as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem with subjective and fuzzy preferences of decision makers over evaluation criteria. As an outcome, this paper provides decision makers with a decision support system that presents the Pareto fronts, a set of best possible high-quality suppliers and optimized business operation levels from s...

Supplier reliability is a critical issue for manufacturing companies. Delivery delays from suppliers create backlog and firefighting on the shop floors. To avoid disruption hedge against supplier lead time uncertainty, companies rely diversification, multi-sourcing, safety times. In buyer might order same product (raw material) different suppliers. The design of robust cost-efficient purchasing...