... Procurement Supply chain management Vendor rating Numerous multicriteria (i.e. multiattribute) decision support tools have been developed for structuring and supporting decision making (Olson, 1996 ; Larichev and Olson, 2001). Many of these techniques are related to and in general based upon...

... quality performance of suppliers improved after implementing the new JIT/TQM strategies. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Inventory control Just‐in‐time Purchasing techniques Supplier evaluation TQM Vendor rating Note: This paper was subsequently published in International Journal of Physical...