a review on supplier selection problem in regular area of application

A REVIEW ON SUPPLIER SELECTION PROBLEM IN REGULAR AREA OF APPLICATION 1 Dr. S.Nallusamy Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute University, Chennai- 600 095, Tamilnadu, India e-mail: [email protected] 2 S. Satheesh Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute University, Chennai- 600 095, Tamilnadu, India e-mail: [email protected] 3 Dr. P.S.Chakraborty Dept. of Adult and Continuing Education & Extension, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700 032, India e- mail: [email protected] 4 K.Balakannan Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology, Chennai-600 069, Tamilnadu, India e-mail: [email protected] Abstract - In regular manufacturing area supplier selection problem is very talented and decision making activity because improper selection may lead an adverse impact on overall strategic performance of the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Area of application narrates to the premises in which the problem of supplier selection was defined and relevant criteria, alternative and environment are considered. A challenge has been made to select and reviewed fifty-two research articles of last ten years of paper published in different journals with two major classifications which is application and environment area. Our survey result recommended the feasible future research in terms of area of application and decision enviro nment. Keywords- Application Area; Supplier Selection; Decision environm ent; OE M and S upply Chain I. INTRODUCTION The back bone of any Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is the suppliers and is the major stakeholder of their supply chain. They have a main contribution in OEM’s quality of the product, delivery schedule, customer satisfaction, profitability and market competiveness. Thus suitable choice of supplier becomes an important decision making area in any business process. Proper selection of suppliers can considerably decrease production lead time, reduce manufacturing cost, increase customer satisfaction, and strengthen corporate competitiveness. Recent literature shows that OEM’s now-a-day’s aim to build long-term relationships with suppliers for sustainable business and purchase managers always face the challenges and difficulties. While selecting the right suppliers, careful assessment is required because suppliers have their own strengths and weaknesses prior to handle them particulars orders. The supplier selection would be straight forward if only one criterion is considered but in real situations range of criteria is adopted for the purpose of defining the real situations then the problem gets multi-criteria decision making. In multi-criteria decision making problem, a set of criteria depends upon situation adopted by researcher. It exposes that the problem like supplier selection and evaluation are specific situation means that all method related to supplier selection would not be applicable for all every possible incidences. Often they assume, in all buying situations explicitly or implicitly, that their method is applicable at most a method or procedure was applied to a particular industry for considered criterion, could not be applicable for a different industry. However , the existing articles on methods do not sufficiently address for this contextual issues [1]. Minimum three papers have been reviewed based on literature on supplier selection and evaluation models previously [1- 3]. Chai Junyi [3] reviewed the articles published from 2008 to 2012 by focusing on decision making methodologies. Though the previous literature reviews having two major limitations. First, the reviewed articles were considered from the data base published from 2008 to 2012. Second, the application of Decision Making Techniques (DMT) by categorizing into two parts, one is independent approach and another is integrated approach technique were considered. This challenging area contributes different situations and different area of applications. The previous literature did not consider area of application and problem environment considered which also affects the supplier selection and evaluation problem. Therefore, we hope that the latest and systematic survey with different approaches is useful for presenting the most recent effort on this promising area. In this review paper, we collected the 52 research journal articles published during last ten years and based on these we attempt to examine the following two issues (i) area in which the application being focused more? (ii) Which decision atmosphere gets attention more? Finally based on the observation and analysis the necessary conclusions were made. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562 Vol. 10 No.62 (2015) © Research India Publications; httpwww.ripublication.comijaer.htm 128

a review on supplier selection problem in regular area of application

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