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 …

Because of China's rapid economic development, its transportation system has become one
of China's high-energy-consumption and high-pollution-emission sectors. However, little …

China has developed a remarkable economic growth in the past 30 years by accompanying
with undesirable outputs. The assumptions of weak and strong of undesirable outputs have …

The study develops slack-based environmental performance index (SBEPI) to conduct the
environmental performance of Pakistan's major sectors of the economy, which include …

This work presents a multi objective model for a multi-product, multi-site aggregate
production planning (APP) problem in a supply chain. The objectives are: 1) minimising the …

As the most important responsibility of purchasing management, the problem of supplier
evaluation and selection has always received a great deal of attention from practitioners and …

This research has responded to the need for diagnostic reference tools explicitly linking the
influence of environmental uncertainty and performance within the supply chain. Uncertainty …

Supply chain includes all activities associated with the flow and transformation of goods from
the raw material stage through to the end user. Supplier selection is one of the most …

This paper makes use of cross-efficiency measures, as an extension to data envelopment
analysis (DEA). The cross-efficiency evaluation not only provides a ranking among the …