...Leonardo de Carvalho Gomes; Giovani Jose Caetano da Silveira; Francisco Kliemann Neto; Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour; Fernando Henrique Lermen Purpose Anchored in transaction cost theory and the resource-based view, this study aims to present original insights from primary data on optimizing...

... are crucial to the effort. Supply chain management software is evolving rapidly in three major areas: supply chain planning and execution, warehouse management, and transportation management systems. Emerging trends, which include third party software systems, collaborative technology, increased optimization...

... of this paper is to show how two optimization modeling techniques, multi‐objective programming (MOP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA), can be used in tandem as tools for evaluating the impact of the number of vendors which are employed. As mentioned, MOP was first used in purchasing and logistics management...