Multi-criteria Decision Making in Supply Chain Management
A special issue of Systems (ISSN 2079-8954). This special issue belongs to the section "Supply Chain Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 22969
Special Issue Editors
Interests: supply chain management; pricing; game theory; inventory management; dynamic programming; MCDM; MODM
Interests: information sharing; operations management; supplier selection; dynamic programming; inventory management; mathematical modeling; decision making and analysis; forecasting
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The supply chain is the sequence of companies and their processes of transforming raw materials into final goods and/or services. Effective collaboration between supply chain companies dramatically reduces their inventories and related costs, which results in faster practices, customer satisfaction, etc. Successfully performing supply chain collaboration concerns multiple criteria such as inventory and production costs, environmental impact, and customer satisfaction. They contribute to the added complexity of these decisions and escalate the need for the development of advanced decision-making tools. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is a systematic procedure used by supporting decision makers in these situations. MCDM problems are divided in two subsets: multi-attribute decision making (MADM) and multi-objective decision making (MODM) problems. MADM problems refer to determining the ranking of alternatives in the presence of multiple attributes. However, MODM problems involve the design of alternatives, thereby optimizing the decision-makers’ objectives.
This Special Issue considers all the multi-attribute decision making techniques applied to supply chain management problems.
The topics include, but are not limited to:
- Multi-criteria decision making for logistics and supply chains;
- Multi-criteria decision making for sustainable logistics and supply chains;
- Fuzzy and/or stochastic multi-criteria decision making for logistics and supply chains;
- Multi-criteria decision making for inventory management;
- Multi-criteria decision making for product development;
- Supplier selection and evaluation.
Dr. Omid Jadidi
Dr. Fatemeh Firouzi
Guest Editors
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