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 ...

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...

in recent years, supplier evaluation and selection, an important element in supply chain management, has been gaining attention in both academic literature and industrial practice. the mixed integer multi-objective non-linear programming model (mimonlp) presented in this paper aimed to evaluate and select the appropriate set of suppliers considering quantitative and qualitative criteria and in ...

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...

We are interested in supporting multi-agent contracting in which customer agents solicit the resources and capabilities of other selfinterested supplier agents in order to accomplish their goals. Goals may involve the execution of multi-step tasks in which different tasks are contracted out to different suppliers. In this paper we focus on the design of supplier agents. The agents are designed ...

Supplier selection is a multi-criteria decision making problem which includes evaluation factors. In order to select the best suppliers it is crucial to considering the both qualitative and quantitative factors simultaneously. In the supplier selection process, manager also has to consider multicriteria factors related. Thus the integration of all the multi-criteria analysis and those analysis ...