MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING;
PURCHASING;
VENDOR SELECTION;
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM;
D O I:
10.1016/0377-2217(93)90301-3
中图分类号:
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号:
12 ;
1201 ;
1202 ;
120202 ;
摘要:
Purchases from vendors involve significant costs for many firms. Decisions related to these purchases include the selection of vendors and the determination of order quantities to be placed with the selected vendors. Such decisions are frequently multiobjective in nature. That is, they are evaluated by more than one criterion. At least 23 criteria for various vendor selection problems have been identified. In this article, we present a multiobjective approach to systematically analyze the inherent tradeoffs involved in multicriteria vendor selection problems. The approach is motivated by, and demonstrated with, an actual purchasing problem facing a division of a Fortune 500 company.