Purchasing occupies a strategic role in supply chain management for a firm and is the driver
of competitive advantage. Owing to the high purchase cost to revenue ratio, decisions such …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

The purpose of this paper is to assist designers and logistics/manufacturing managers in
designing efficient material handling (MH) systems from compatible commercial MH models …

Purpose The objective of this paper is to propose a new data envelopment analysis (DEA)
model for assessing sustainability of suppliers with partial impacts between inputs, desirable …

Best suppliers help manufacturers to gain and sustain a competitive advantage by improving
product quality, reducing cost, shortening lead-time and so on. The crucial role played by …

Conventional data envelopment analysis evaluates the relative efficiency of a set of
homogeneous decision making units (DMUs), where DMUs are evaluated in terms of a …

Companies need to cooperate with reliable and high-performing suppliers of goods and
services, and build mutual long-term relationships in order to sustain their existence and …

Despite its intrinsic advantageous features as a tool for increasing discrimination power of
the basic DEA (data envelopment analysis) model, augmented DEA has two main …