The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the applications of the Analytic
Hierarchy Process (AHP) in operations management and suggest possible gaps from the …

Many decisions in operations management (OM) belong to the class of Non-deterministic
Polynomial hard problems and thus heuristic search methods have been applied to improve …

Supplier selection is the process by which firms identify, evaluate, and contract with
suppliers. The supplier selection process deploys an enormous amount of a firm's financial …

Biomass gasification is a key opportunity to produce bio-renewable energy, replacing
conventional fossil fuels. Nevertheless, its commercial development for hydrogen and …

A supplier selection decision inherently is a multi‐criterion problem. It is a decision of
strategic importance to companies. The nature of this decision usually is complex and …

Global supplier development is a multi-criterion decision problem which includes both
qualitative and quantitative factors. The global supplier selection problem is more complex …

Local government competitiveness is an intriguing contemporary issue that has not been
discussed extensively in prior studies on the evolution of the structure and scope of …

Vendor selection of a telecommunications system is an important problem to a
telecommunications company as the telecommunications system is a long-term investment …

Global supplier selection has a critical effect on the competitiveness of the entire supply
chain network. Research results indicate that the supplier selection process appears to be …

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 …