Supplier selection and inventory planning are critical and challenging tasks in Supply Chain Management. There are many studies on both topics and many solution techniques have been proposed dealing with each problem separately.In this study, we present a two-stage integrated approach to the supplier selection and inventory planning. In the first stage, suppliers are ranked based on various criteria, including cost, delivery, service and product quality using Inter- show that in the overall, NSGA-II is the best performing MOEA producing high quality trade-off solutions to the integrated problem of supplier selection and inventory planning.
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