Supply Chain Management: Volume 15 Issue 4

Multiple sourcing strategies and order allocation: an ANP‐AUGMECON meta‐model

Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Vrassidas Leopoulos, George Mavrotas, Dimitra Voulgaridou

The strategic importance of sourcing is inherent in the positioning of the purchasing operation in a supply chain and supplier evaluation – a crucial step in sourcing – is a…

The impact of integrated analysis on supply chain management: a coordinated approach for inventory control policy

G. Reza Nasiri, Hamid Davoudpour, Behrooz Karimi

Effective inventory management is very critical to market success. The purpose of this paper is to formulate an integrated model for the location of warehouse, the allocation of…

Improving social welfare chain using optimal planning model

Burcu Adivar, Tarik Atan, Bengü Sevil Oflaç, Tuğba Örten

The purpose of this study is to introduce the concept of social welfare chain and address the challenges in decision making through the development of an optimal planning model…

A portfolio‐based analysis for green supplier management using the analytical network process

Qinghua Zhu, Yijie Dou, Joseph Sarkis

The purpose of this paper is to present the development of a methodology to evaluate suppliers using portfolio analysis based on the analytical network process (ANP) and…

Overseas sourcing decisions – the total cost of sourcing from China

K.W. Platts, N. Song

Although cost savings are found by many researchers to be a major reason for sourcing from China, the actual cost savings may not be as great as expected. This paper aims at…

Understanding inter‐organizational decision coordination

Chee Yew Wong, Nuran Acur

This article develops a theoretical framework to investigate the interaction and coordination of decision‐making processes in a supply chain with multiple and inter‐dependent…