Article ID: | iaor20061373 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 8 |
Start Page Number: | 702 |
End Page Number: | 709 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2005 |
Journal: | International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
Authors: | Wong Y.S., Huang X.G., Liu Z.J., Qiu Z.M. |
Keywords: | organization |
The global market today demands rapid introduction of products while maintaining high quality and minimal costs. To accomplish the goals in a timely and efficient manner, companies are considering the power of collaboration across the product life cycle. The paper proposes a critical-path-analysis (CPA)-based method to optimize the component supplier selection in a dynamic collaborative environment. An objective function is advanced to formalize the component supplier optimization problem. Fuzzy factors, fuzzy decision of the optimization and their relations are analysed. A CPA-based optimization algorithm is developed to select a set of suppliers that could provide the components at low prices and in time.