Purpose – In order to improve the supply chain performance, organizations need to improve the efficiency of vendors. Although many techniques are used for vendor efficiency measurement, there is a lack of research about defining satisficing level to analyze improvement potential of vendors....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to identify and rank the criteria used for the supplier development using interpretative structural modeling (ISM). Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a framework to analyze the interactions among the criteria such...

Company managers in generic pharmaceutical industries routinely face the challenge of selecting their downstream supply associates to reach their clients most profitably. These suppliers in the downlink to their client entities must satisfy the given performance criteria. This paper shortlists...