{"title":"Supplier selection in supply chain management: a review study","authors":"Mohammed Alkahtani, Husam Kaid","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2018.098305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2018.098305","url":null,"abstract":"Supplier selection is the process of finding the appropriate suppliers who can provide the buyer with the right quality products and/or services at the right price, in the right quantities, and at the right time. In this paper, a comprehensive overview of the literature on supplier selection criteria and supplier evaluation approaches is presented. More than 25 major production, manufacturing, operations management, and control journals published in 1995-2018 are reviewed. The literature review is divided into three fields, namely criteria in supplier selection, approaches in supplier selection, and a summary of the survey. This work emphasises the historical progression in these fields and offers the latest findings in this area in an attempt to make it easier for supply chain and logistics engineers to find a convenient principle or technique for supplier selection in various scenarios. Finally, future research directions are suggested.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"63 1","pages":"107-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75170754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Mathiyazhagan, A. Haq, Aanand Mohapatra, P. Srinivasan
{"title":"Application of structural equation modelling to evaluate the barrier relationship for green supply chain management implementation","authors":"K. Mathiyazhagan, A. Haq, Aanand Mohapatra, P. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10006300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10006300","url":null,"abstract":"Presently, industries are struggling to sustain business pressure by relying purely on traditional supply chain management (TSCM) model without environmental consciousness. In this view, many of them around the world started to implement green supply chain management (GSCM) concepts into their TSCM. During this modification, industries faced many hurdles (barriers) restricting the GSCM engagement into TSCM. This study aims to analyse and validate the barrier relationships to implement the GSCM in the Indian automotive sector. Based on the hypothesis a causal model was developed using these barriers. The hypotheses were developed using previous literature to validate the barrier relationships. Delphi technique was used to take the opinions of experts are taken with the help of questionnaires. Structural equation modelling (SEM) is an a prior technique and it is capable of validating a set of hypotheses for barrier relationships. Using the SEM approach in the LISREL software package, the hypotheses were validated through two options; accepted or rejected.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"25 1","pages":"87-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75305477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating risks due to political environment as driver for other risks in offshore outsourcing","authors":"R. Sharma, P. Chauhan","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10006307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10006307","url":null,"abstract":"In the current service-oriented economy, make-or-buy decisions are now do-or-buy decisions that reflect the strategic question of whether outside entities should be hired to perform significant support services or not. Some of the risks that offshoring apparently carries with it are the risk of alienating customers, and possibly even losing business permanently if the service experience is negative. Political risk is where a country's policies or situation will become unsupportive and negatively affect an institution's profits. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test a structural model based upon three important risk factors, i.e.: 1) risk due to political environment; 2) risk due to cultural differences; 3) opportunistic behaviour risk. Various statistical techniques were used to verify, validate and test the reliability of the hypothesis and their sub dimensions. Results of structural equation modelling revealed that risk due to political differences has a direct and significant impact towards risk due to cultural differences (0.73) and opportunistic behaviour risk (0.35), thus enhancing them. Also, risk due to cultural differences shows enhancement of direct impact on opportunistic behaviour risk (0.64).","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"79 1","pages":"160-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77664362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of fuzzy MCDM in supplier selection of fertiliser manufacturing industry","authors":"V. Agrawal, A. Agrawal, R. P. Mohanty","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10006306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10006306","url":null,"abstract":"Supplier selection is an important strategic consideration for the manufacturing industries. Right selection is a process of identifying the right suppliers, who are able to provide the buyer right products/raw materials/services, at the right price, right time, right place and right quantity. The selection decision is based on multiple criteria and this decision often is unstructured and complex. Multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem involves different conflicting criteria on which decision maker's knowledge is sometimes vague and imprecise. This decision is required to be taken in a fuzzy environment. In this paper, an attempt has been made to formulate and apply a fuzzy MCDM method to a supplier selection problem from the Indian fertiliser industry.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"11 1","pages":"133-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78643317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surveying the effects of CKMP of strategic managers on supply chain performance in Iran oil industry","authors":"Mahdieh Taher, R. Bandarian, M. S. Moghadam","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10004460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10004460","url":null,"abstract":"The argument attempts to elaborate the study of the effect of collaborative knowledge management practice (CKMP) on supply chain performance (SCP) in Iranian oil industry to find out the relation of organisational infrastructure, and elements of knowledge management practice in Iranian oil industry. This study is conducted among the 120 managers who work at the oil companies. The self-administrated questionnaire was performed to gather data and to process and analyse the data descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The findings illustrated that the success of collaborative KMP is created on: 1) organisational factors like managerial engagement, supportive culture, employee devotedness; 2) technology capability to handle like large scale inter organisational system; 3) facilitating environmental factors like high operational uncertainty and collaborative trading partners; 4) compatible knowledge bases of all parties. Likewise, the outcome indicates that collaborating with each trading partners in KM can enhance the knowledge quality, integration with partners and SCP.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"20 1","pages":"28-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84249033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Providing a structured methodology for supplier selection and evaluation for strategic outsourcing","authors":"Mansoor Momeni, H. R. Vandchali","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10004464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10004464","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic outsourcing plays an important role in the success of supply chain management. Since some organisations outsource some important parts of their business, the consequences of poor decisions can cause big losses to their business. In this regard, many organisations have tried to identify, evaluate, and select suitable suppliers in order to establish a successful long-term cooperative relationship. Therefore, various models for the implementation of strategic outsourcing have been developed and used; these models have been often subjective and few of them are practically convenient to implement. Considering the limitations of strategic outsourcing models, in this article, a structured methodology for strategic outsourcing is provided, in which suppliers are first evaluated while considering operational criteria such as quality, cost, and delivery time by DEA model. Eventually, efficient companies in terms of strategic criteria and their strategic alliance with the organisation are evaluated and ranked using evidential reasoning (ER) algorithm. Finally, the best companies are selected as strategic suppliers for the organisation based on using the structured methodology. The presented methodology was used in a case study on a software provider company in Iran.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"61 1","pages":"66-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80481860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of interpretive structural modelling approach for the analysis of barriers affecting lean manufacturing implementation in Indian manufacturing industry","authors":"Rakesh Kumar, Vikas Kumar","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10004453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10004453","url":null,"abstract":"India is endeavouring ambitiously to become a global hub for manufacturing. Global customers want persistent deliveries with mix model, defect free products and at lowest cost. Therefore, Indian manufacturing companies are making efforts to adopt lean manufacturing practices to satisfy their customers. Companies acknowledge lean manufacturing as a well-recognised approach to improve their competitiveness by reducing waste from the system but, in Indian context, it is still limited due to many impediments. Hence, the barriers must be examined and removed to ensure smooth implementation of lean manufacturing to gain its full benefit. In this paper, interpretive structural modelling (ISM) approach is applied to examine the relationship among the various barriers affecting implementing of lean manufacturing in Indian industry. Structural model for barriers is developed based on their driving powers and dependence powers. The outcome of the model portrays a systematic approach for removal of barriers affecting lean implementation through analysis of driving power and dependence power. The purpose of this paper is to identify the ranks and inter-relationships of lean manufacturing barriers. This may help in formulating the strategy to reduce the adverse impact of these barriers in Lean Manufacturing implementation.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"23 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78181979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An integrated enterprise resources planning framework for supply chain management using business intelligence tools","authors":"M. N. Koupaei, A. Khamseh","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10010001","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, business intelligence (BI) provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations in enterprise systems like enterprise resource planning (ERP) and mainly becoming more necessary for supply chain managers to make good decisions. BI tools support managers to assess the business environment in ways such as business process reengineering, customer relationship management, marketing research, and competitor analysis. The main purpose of paper is creating a unified framework for the application of BI in ERP systems which results in value-added supply chain management (SCM) systems. In this paper, business process system and interaction between technology and environment by applying BI in ERP have been presented. This paper is a comprehensive review of recent literature that examined the effects of BI systems on the five steps of Denolf et al.'s (2015) model. This study has five hypotheses and based on research results, all five hypotheses were confirmed. Finally, a model has been developed to determine relationship between BI (as enabler of ERP) and the implementation of supply chain management (SCM).","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"22 1","pages":"202-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85657136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fuzzy goal programming approach to solve a novel supply chain multi-objective mathematical model under uncertainty","authors":"A. Ghodratnama, Reza Hassannia, A. Mirzazadeh","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10012515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10012515","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we have proposed a multi-objective model supply chain which aims to reduce costs, earliness/tardiness and CO2 emissions in the supply chain. Note that, the CO2 emissions are caused both by vehicles and factories together. Also, earliness and tardiness times are computed for each level of considered supply chain, meaning producer, distribution centres as well as sellers (retailers). Our main aim is to meet the demands of the seller in such a way that our objective functions are to be observed. Some of the parameters in the proposed mathematical model are considered uncertain and in the form of fuzzy numbers as well. For solving this multi-objective fuzzy mathematical model, Jimenez method has been first used to convert model into the crisp one, afterward, fuzzy goal programming approach is performed to solve the multi-objective model. A numerical example is considered and the obtained results are investigated and analysed meticulously.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"15 1","pages":"280-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73541326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Tucker, Malini Natarajarathinam, Sai Balagi Thalanayar Swaminathan
{"title":"A multi-dimensional new-market pricing paradigm","authors":"J. Tucker, Malini Natarajarathinam, Sai Balagi Thalanayar Swaminathan","doi":"10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10010018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBPSCM.2017.10010018","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores pricing methodologies, economic theories and various frameworks that influence the price-setting in different dynamic markets, while considering ways to minimise price discounting at a transactional level. Upper management in a small industrial supply firm, Shannon Hardware, recently discovered large losses in sales revenue due to price discounting at the transactional level from sales personnel due to the ever-changing dynamic markets they serve. This has made the company to look for a new price structure for their locations. A new pricing paradigm is created using a three-phase pricing methodology: 1) analyse pricing variables, economic theories and market conditions; 2) create and optimise the pricing paradigm; 3) execute the pricing paradigm and simulate what if scenarios. Once the pricing paradigm is implemented into Shannon Hardware's ERP system, the anticipated companywide benefit is to recapture an average of 7% in sales revenue per month for an increase of $140,000 dollars annually.","PeriodicalId":37630,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling","volume":"6 1","pages":"215-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91029992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}