This study proposes a bi-objective mixed possibilistic, two-stage stochastic programming model to address supplier selection and order allocation problem to build the resilient supply base under operational and disruption risks. The model accounts for epistemic uncertainty of critical data and applies several proactive strategies such as suppliers’ business continuity plans, fortification of su...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...

Nowadays, managing a supply chain is turned to be one of the fundamentals of business process.  In doing so, investigating and analyzing each and every of the processes and selecting the best of each process is an important challenge for strategic managers. In this paper Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is used and a model is provided for selecting the best suppliers with flexible inpu...

The PROMETHEE is a significant method for evaluating alternatives with respect to criteria in multi-criteria decision-making problems. It is characterized by many types of preference functions that are used for assigning the differences between alternatives in judgements. This paper proposes a preference of green suppliers using the PROMETHEE under the usual criterion preference functions. Comp...

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...

How to select the suitable suppliers in the supply chain is critical for an organization’s success and has attracted much attention of both researchers and practitioners. Supplier selection can be regarded as a complex group multiple criteria decision making problem requiring consideration of a number of alternative suppliers and quantitative and qualitative criteria. Additionally, decision mak...

Nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. So, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. The supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. Since in previous researches the inter relationship between cri...

Many companies have changed their focus from short-term purchasing transactions to supply chain management, concentrating on developing long-term relations with suppliers. Thus, selecting a supplier commits the organization and its resources to an outsider for a long time, and any mistake in this selection adversely affects the stability of the organization. Moreover, the continual increase in ...

The competition in 21 century is no longer located among enterprises, but in all the supply chains. To maximize the supply chain benefit, the stable and efficient supply chain should be provided. This paper applies the polychromatic sets to discuss the supplier selection problem and describe the supplier selection related factors. According to those factors, a model is illustrated in detail by ...