the supply chain represents the critical link between the development of new product and the market in pharmaceutical industry. over the years, improvements made in supply chain operations have focused largely on ways to reduce cost and gain efficiencies in scale. in addition, powerful regulatory and market forces have provided new incentives for pharmaceutical firms to basically rethink the wa...

The plastics business has grown rapidly in recent years, with annual growth rates ranging from 16% to 18% each year (second only the telecommunications and textile industries). plastic industry is regarded as a dynamic Vietnamese economy due its rapid development rate. Its high stems big market significant expansion potential, since Vietnam’s sector still early stages comparison rest of globe g...

As global supply chains become more developed and complicated, supplier quality has increasingly influential on the competitiveness of businesses during Covid-19 pandemic. Consequently, selection is an important process for any business around globe. Choosing a complex decision that can result in lower procurement costs increased profits without increasing cost or lowering product. However, the...

With increased environmental protection awareness, sustainability has been incorporated into supply chain management. Sustainable supplier selection and evaluation have become an acritical part of They can significantly improve the chain’s operational performance enhance enterprises’ competitiveness. Based on trapezoidal interval type-2 fuzzy numbers (TIT2FNs) cloud probability dominance relati...

The cosmetics industry requires a long-term sustainable strategy to balance its continuously growing trend worldwide and resources consumption. In this view, the suppliers’ selection process is gaining more attention affecting products’ overall sustainability. objective of contribution hence develop validate Cosmetics Sustainable Supplier Selection (C-SSS) model allowing suppliers for cosmetic ...

there are many benefits for coordination of multiple suppliers when single supplier cannot satisfy buyer demands.  in addition, buyer needs to purchase multiple items in a real supply chain. so, a model that satisfies these requests has many advantages. we extend the existing approaches in the literature that assume all suppliers need to be put on a common replenishment cycle and each supplier ...

recently, farzipoor saen [journal of the operational research society, 60(11), 1575–1582 (2009)] proposed a method based on data envelopment analysis to identify optimistic efficient suppliers in the presence of nondiscretionary factors-imprecise data. this short communication aims at showing a computational error in computing the value of preference intensity parameter in farzipoor saen’s [1] ...