期刊名称:International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
印刷版ISSN:1923-2926
电子版ISSN:1923-2934
出版年度:2011
卷号:2
期号:4
页码:801-810
DOI:10.5267/j.ijiec.2011.06.004
语种:English
出版社:Growing Science Publishing Company
摘要:Supplier evaluation and selection has been a vital issue of strategic importance for long time. Different multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches have been proposed by the researchers in past, to solve the supplier evaluation and selection problem. In this paper, we present a review of various MCDM methodologies reported in the literature for solving the supplier evaluation and selection process. The review is solely based on sixty-eight research articles, including eight review articles in the academic literature from 2000 to 2011. We try to find out the most prevalent approach in the articles and thereby present the future scope of arriving at an optimal solution to the problem, based on the specifications, the strategies and the requirements of the buyers. The study presents that with the change in processes and the requirements, how the approach of the manufacturing industry has shifted from striving for operational effectiveness to the strategic partnership in the dyadic relationship.