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Selection of Sustainable Suppliers
2018Due to the growing importance of environment and sustainability in global business, organizations are trying their best to make their production systems sustainable. Today, the focus is not only on individual production systems, but also on sustainability issues in the supply chain.
Pravin Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Singh
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Journal of Marketing, 2014
In business-to-business markets, suppliers often ask an existing customer to provide a referral for them (i.e., a supplier-selected referral), in which the supplier selects a referrer to influence a specific potential customer favorably. The selection of the referrer is important because the right referrer providing the right message can generate ...
Mahima Hada +2 more
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In business-to-business markets, suppliers often ask an existing customer to provide a referral for them (i.e., a supplier-selected referral), in which the supplier selects a referrer to influence a specific potential customer favorably. The selection of the referrer is important because the right referrer providing the right message can generate ...
Mahima Hada +2 more
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International Supplier Selection:
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1994In 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, 2003In 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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Selecting and leveraging suppliers
2011The evidence we have accumulated shows clearly: organizations that have the CEO and a multidisciplinary team involved in sourcing strategy and configuration make more effective decisions. The CEO ensures the identification of clear business needs and objectives, and the availability of in-house IT sourcing capabilities and resources. As we demonstrated
Leslie P. Willcocks +2 more
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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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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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Supplier Selection Based on Recommendations
2016Suppliers’ selection is important for any enterprise. Most available approaches for facilitating processes of choosing suppliers from a number of alternatives focus on which criteria are to be used according to a particular business. This implies that the role of a decision maker is to confirm or modify the outcome of an already chosen method.
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A fuzzy-Bayesian model for supplier selection
Expert Systems with Applications, 2012The selection supplier problem has received a lot of attention from academics in recent years. Several models were developed in the literature, combining consolidated operations research and artificial intelligence methods and techniques. However, the tools presented in the literature neglected learning and adaptation, since this decision making ...
Luciano Ferreira, Denis Borenstein
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Sustainability improvement through supplier selection
2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37583), 2004The 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, 2011PurposeThe 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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