Limited business resources and a fierce market competition require quality management which considers stakeholders’ needs. For every production company important stakeholders are suppliers of components embedded in the final product. The selection of suppliers of product components plays a very important role in the realization of the production process. Supplier selection is a multi-criteria d...

one of important issues in designing a supply chain is supplier selection. this issue is complicated, because each supplier should satisfy some criteria from buyer and choosing among them is actually a multi criteria decision making problem. so, there is a need for a structured and systematic approach to solve this problem. in this article, we address supplier selection in an advertising indust...

Due to the importance of supplier selection issue in supply chain management (SCM) and ,also,  the increasing tendency of organizations to their social responsibilities, In this paper, we survey the supplier selection issue as a multi objective problem while considering the factor of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a mathematical parameter. The purpose of this paper is to design a mode...

Article history: Received October 15, 2013 Received in revised format March 2 2014 Accepted May 1, 2014 Available online May 7 2014 Selection of one or a combination of the most suitable potential providers and outsourcing problem is the most important strategies in logistics and supply chain management. In this paper, selection of an optimal combination of suppliers in inventory and supply cha...

In today’s globally competitive environment, decision makers in supply chains are faced with numerous challenges particularly regarding the selection of suppliers. To assist in this endeavor, we examine a double-layered supply chain where a buyer (vendor) facing the end users has the option of selecting among a cohort of suppliers. The available suppliers have different yield rates and unit cos...

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due to the importance of supplier selection issue in supply chain management (scm) and ,also,  the increasing tendency of organizations to their social responsibilities, in this paper, we survey the supplier selection issue as a multi objective problem while considering the factor of corporate social responsibility (csr) as a mathematical parameter. the purpose of this paper is to design a mode...

The emergence of sustainability paradigm has influenced many research disciplines including supply chain management. It has drawn the attention of manufacturing companies’ CEOs to incorporate sustainability in their supply chain and manufacturing activities. Supplier selection problem, as one of the main problems in supply chain activities, is also combined with sustainable development where tr...

supplier selection is one of the most important activities of purchasing departments. this importance is increased even more by new strategies in a supply chain, because of the key role suppliers perform in terms of quality, costs and services which affect the outcome in the buyer’s company. supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making problem in which the objectives are not equall...