With globalization and the emergence of the extended enterprise of interdependent
organizations, there has been a steady increase in the outsourcing of parts and services …

This paper reviews inventory models with multiple supply options and discusses their
contribution to supply chain management. After discussing strategic aspects of supplier …

Supplier selection is nowadays one of the critical topics in supply chain management. This
paper presents a new decision making approach for group multi-criteria supplier selection …

In industrial purchasing contexts firms often procure a set of products from the same
suppliers to benefit from economies of scale and scope. These products are often at different …

This paper reviews the literature on inventory models with multiple sourcing options and
presents a typology for classification. By means of the classification, the progression of the …

This paper addresses a supplier selection and purchase problem under stochastic demand.
In particular, a buyer firm (manufacturer or retailer) wants to procure a product from a group …

In this research, we consider the supplier selection problem of a firm offering a single
product via multiple warehouses. The warehouses face stationary, stochastic demand and …

We consider a single buyer who wishes to outsource a fixed demand for a manufactured
good or service at a fixed price to a set of potential suppliers. We examine the value of …

In this paper we compare the following procurement strategies based on their expected
costs: strategic partnership, which is based on a long‐term relationship with a single …

We study a supplier selection and order quantity allocation problem in a two-stage supply
chain, which is composed of a set of potential suppliers and a single buyer/retailer trading …