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Recently,supply chain management and the
supplier (vendor) selection process have received
considerable attention in the business-management literature.
During the 1990s,many manufacturers
seek to collaborate with their suppliers in order to
upgrade their management performance and com-
petitiveness (Inner et al.,1999; Shin et al.,2000).The
material flow in a supply chain is shown in Fig.1.
The purchasing function is increasingly seen as a
strategic issue in organizations.Buyer and supplier
relationships in manufacturing enterprises have
received a great deal of attention.When it is built on
long-term relationships,a company's supply
chain creates one of the strongest barriers to entry
for competitors (Briggs,1994; Choi and Hartley,
1996).In other words,once a supplier becomes
part of a well-managed and established supply
chain,this relationship will have a lasting effect on
the competitiveness of the entire supply chain.
Therefore,the supplier selection problem has
become one of the most important issues for
establishing an effective supply chain system.The
overall objective of supplier selection process is to
reduce purchase risk,maximize overall value to
the purchaser,and build the closeness and long-
term relationships between buyers and suppliers
(Monczka et al.,1998).
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