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 …

Today's business environment has created a high level of uncertainty and disturbed
procedures in supply chains. Suppliers have been often identified as the main source of …

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 …

Supplier selection is a multi-faceted strategic decision but there is no research that
considers factors like sustainability and risk, simultaneously. Moreover, when selection …

The field of engineering management usually involves evaluation issues, such as program
selection, team performance evaluation, technology selection, and supplier evaluation. The …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the outcomes achieved when two widely
applied methods for supplier selection—the 'technique for order of preference by similarity to …

In view of controversial environmental issues and increased public awareness, companies
are increasingly under pressure from their beneficiaries and governments to become …

Nowadays, with the development of information technology and economic globalization,
supplier selection problem gets more and more attraction. The recent literature shows huge …

Abstract Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques are mathematical tools that help
decision makers evaluating and ranking in an automatic way many possible alternatives …

In this study using an input-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with
undesirable outputs a new stochastic model called Expected Ranking Criterion is proposed …