Determination of the Optimal Number of Suppliers Considering the Risk：Emersun Company as a Case Study
Determining the number of suppliers chosen for cooperation in a supply chain is one of the most important problems in the supply chain management area．Regarding the fact that simultaneously decreasing the risk and cost is one of the most important objectives of every．organization， besides the cost,the risk has also been introduced in the recent researches,as one of the most important criteria．In this pape, the decision tree approach is used for determining the optimal number of suppliers considering the supply risk and it has been tried to develop an applied method through expanding the cost criteria．The proposed model in this paper。therefore， contains any kind of cost ingredients such as cost of suppliers development，cost of suppliers management，cost of missing discount in volume due to increase in number of suppliers in supply base,and loss cost due to supply postponement from suppliers．This approach is implemented in Emersun Company．
Supply Base Supply Risk Sourcing Decision Tree
Nasim Mirahmadi Esmaeel Sabefi Ebrahim Teimoury
Department of Industrial Engineering,Science And Research Branch,Islamic Azad University,Tehran,Iran Department of Industrial Tarbiat Modares University,Engineering Tehran,Iran Department of Industrial Engineering Iran University of Science & Technology,Tehran,Iran
国际会议
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英文
58-62
2011-02-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）