supply chain management is one of modern approach in the field of operation and production management. nowadays success and survival of manufacturing organizations depend on effectiveness and productivity of supply chains. this research tries to investigate contributing factor to enhance supply chain productivity. then by using fuzzy promethe-a multiple attribute decision making (madm) - tous a...

With the growth of public awareness for environmental protection, green production was raised as an important issue for each producer, which will guarantee its activity in long term. Creating suppliers, performance assessment system is so necessary and important that it measures suitability of the suppliers for long-term cooperation with the company. Many activities have been performed for sele...

In the present competitive world, the organizations need to endeavor constantly so as to make progress as well as maintaining their current position through employing the appropriate strategies. Organizations surroundings have been undergoing rapid changes among which the different demands and the variety of customers are to be mentioned. The scarce and limited number of sources and facilities ...

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...

The competitive market and declined economy have increased the relevant importance of making supply chain network efficient. This has created many motivations to reduce the cost of services, and simultaneously, to increase the quality of them. The network as a tri-echelon one consists of Suppliers, Warehouses or Distribution Centers (DCs), and Retailer nodes. To bring the problem closer to real...

This study aims to implement decision making methodology select raw material suppliers for sea cucumbers in fish cracker Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Bangkalan Districts, Indonesia. Raw materials sourcing is one of the most critical functions MSMEs because its significant effect reducing production costs increasing overall profits. The suppliers’ selection process analysed two ph...

The aim of this study was to provide an analytical tool to evaluate and select the best supplier(s)/vendor(s) in fuzzy environment for Television (TV) manufacturing organization. A hierarchy through which decision makers can bring about a comparison among the suppliers was worked out and software for the same was developed. The methodology for selection was based upon multiple criteria decision...