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International Supplier Selection:

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1994
In an era of global sourcing, the multinational firm′s success often hinges on the most appropriate selection of its foreign suppliers. International supplier selection, however, is very complicated and risky owing to a variety of uncontrollable and unpredictable factors affecting the decision.
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An intelligent supplier relationship management system for selecting and benchmarking suppliers

International Journal of Technology Management, 2003
In today's accelerating world economy, the drive to cut costs continually and focus on core competencies has driven many to outsource some or all of their production. In this environment, improving supply chain execution and leveraging the supply base through effective supplier relationship management has become more critical than ever in achieving ...
King Lun Choy, Wing Bun Lee, Victor Lo
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Supplier Selection Strategies

Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, 1987
The supplier selection decision can often be handled in a relatively routine fashion, either because there is little likelihood of the buyer's making an error, or because an error would not seriously impact performance. Under certain conditions, however, there is a relatively high probability that an inappropriate supplier will be selected and that ...
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Multiple Comparisons with the Best for Supplier Selection

Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 2013
Evaluating and selecting suppliers are essential tasks in managing supply chains. Quality is one of the most important factors for supplier selection among various criteria. To compare the quality of k (k ≥ 2) suppliers, this paper proposes a multiple comparisons with the best method based on the yield index, Spk.
Chen-ju Lin, Hsin-hui Kuo
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Sustainability improvement through supplier selection

2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37583), 2004
The sustainability target method (STM) provides a practical sustainability target for individual businesses and products through determining the relative indicator resource productivity (RP) for environmental performance and the absolute indicator eco-efficiency (EE) for sustainability.
Meimei Gao, MengChu Zhou
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A multiple perspectives approach to supplier selection

Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2011
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to change the traditional supplier selection methods by shifting the emphasis from using a single model to using multiple models in the unstructured decision‐making context and to provide a tool for decision makers to make informed decisions of supplier selection in the multiple perspectives.Design/methodology ...
Shouhong Wang, Sharon M. Ordoobadi
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Efficient Selection of Suppliers over the Internet

Journal of Management Information Systems, 1997
The Internet has become increasingly important to organizations for certain aspects of electronic commerce. Many organizations have set up Web pages to capture the attention of potential buyers and to develop new business relationships. Others have set up indexing services to provide easy search capabilities to prospective buyers. While the unit search
Anitesh Barua, Suryanarayanan Ravindran, Andrew B. Whinston   +2 more
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Supplier Selection

2023
Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, Tofigh Allahviranloo, Morteza Shafiee, Hilda Saleh   +3 more
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Supplier Selection Model Considering the Supplier Failures and Price Fluctuations

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
The selection of the right suppliers is crucial to ensure supply chain resilience. This study proposes a two-stage robust optimization model that combines box uncertainty sets with a supplier delivery outcome that is described by a portfolio state represented as a binary vector indicating for every supplier whether it delivers or fails.
Jiuchang Shi, Zhixiang Gong, Haoran Gao, Zhao Chen, Zhongwen Zhang, Jiongping Zhao, Peihua Fu, Zhiyuan Ying, Xufei Liu   +8 more
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Selecting a seasoning supplier

1994
Supplier selection is about the establishment of a business relationship between two companies; for it to be successful requires that both parties gain from the relationship. Since all relationships have an element of risk to both parties, it is important to ensure that the risk/reward ratio is acceptable to each party for the relationship to flourish.
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