A contingent approach to the design of vendor selection systems for different types of co‐operative customer/supplier relationships

Abstract

Literature on supply chain management has been recently stressing the need for cooperation and integration between suppliers and customers, highlighting the critical role played by the supplier in contributing to the overall performance of the purchaser. Consequently supplier selection is one of the purchasing manager's most critical tasks, as demonstrated by the number of articles that have dealt with vendor selection criteria and techniques in the light of the requirements of the new environment. The paper proposes four different vendor selection systems (VSSs) depending on the time frame (short-term versus long-term) and on the content (logistic versus strategic) of the cooperative customer/supplier relationships. More precisely, the suggested VSSs consider, in an analytic hierarchy process framework, different sets of measures, deriving from a non-conventional model of the supplier based on the dynamic system and on the resource-based approach.

Measuring the Leanness of Suppliers Using Principal Component Analysis Technique

“…Some of these methods are: (1) Algebraic addition of criteria [30]; (2) Analytical Hierarchy Process [3,19]; (3) Mathematical model of facility location [8]; (4) Stochastic models [25]; (5) Simulation models [28]; and (6) Data Envelopment Model [2,42]. In this research, to assess and rank the suppliers, we will use the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) model.…”

A goal programming approach for supplier evaluation and demand allocation among suppliers

“…Linear programming (Ghodsypour and O'Brien, 1998), dynamic programming (Masella and Rangone, 2000) and multi-objective programming (Weber and Ellram, 1993) are the popular optimisation techniques. Zhang and Zhang (2011) used the MILP approach to solve the supplier-selection problem under stochastic demand.…”

A Multi-criteria Approach to Select Suppliers Based on Performance

“…In [15], it is presented an integrated AHP and linear programming method for choosing the best suppliers and placing the optimum order quantities among them. In [9], it is proposed four different vendor selection systems (VSSs) depending on the time frame (short-term versus long-term) and the content (logistic versus strategic) of the co-operative customer/supplier relationships using an AHP framework. In [16], it is proposed an AHP model for casting supplier assessment based on four groups of criteria: product development capability, manufacturing capability, quality capability, and cost and delivery.…”

“…In addition, the muti-criteria nature of the process of supplier selection has been widely studied in the literature focusing attention on two main issues: the identification of criteria for the assessment and the application of multi-criteria techniques to pass from the initial criteria to an overall ranking of suppliers [9]. Besides, supplier selection involves considering both qualitative and quantitative criteria [10].…”