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 …

Supply chain management (SCM) practices have flourished since the 1990s. Enterprises
realize that a large amount of direct and indirect profits can be obtained from effective and …

Construction supply chain management (CSCM) requires the tracking of material logistics
and construction activities, an integrated platform, and certain coordination mechanisms …

An important problem in decision analysis is the evaluation of the difference between two or
more different rankings for a set of alternatives. A novel model based on the aggregation …

Supply chains are quite easy to define for manufacturing organizations where each
participant in the chain receives inputs from a set of suppliers, processes those inputs, and …

For many organizations effective supplier evaluation and purchasing processes are of vital
importance. As the pace of market globalization quickens, the number of potential suppliers …

Supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in a supply
chain because of the key role of supplier's performance in achieving the objectives of a …

Supply chain management aims to designing, managing and coordinating material/product,
information and financial flows to fulfill the customer requirements at low costs and thereby …

This new edition textbook continues down the path that the first edition, winner of the 2013
IISE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award, successfully carved out. The textbook targets …