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In this paper we present a review of decision methods reported in the literature for supporting t... more In this paper we present a review of decision methods reported in the literature for supporting the supplier selection process. The review is based on an extensive search in the academic literature. We position the contributions in a framework that takes the diversity of procurement situations in terms of complexity and importance into account and covers all phases in the supplier selection process from initial problem de"nition, over the formulation of criteria, the quali"cation of potential suppliers, to the "nal choice among the quali"ed suppliers. Moreover, we propose decision methods and techniques that previously have not been suggested in a purchasing context. The proposed methods speci"cally accommodate for buying situations for which few or no decision models were published so far. This paper extends previous reviews by Weber et al. (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 50 (1991) 2), Holt (Int. J. Project Mange. 16 (1998) 153) and Degraeve et al. (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 125 (1) (2000a) 34) in that it classi"es the models in a framework developed by De Boer (Ph. D. Thesis, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 1998) which recognises more steps in the buying process than only the "nal among quali"ed suppliers and accommodates for the diversity of procurement situations. 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
In this paper we present a review of decision methods reported in the literature for supporting t... more In this paper we present a review of decision methods reported in the literature for supporting the supplier selection process. The review is based on an extensive search in the academic literature. We position the contributions in a framework that takes the diversity of procurement situations in terms of complexity and importance into account and covers all phases in the supplier selection process from initial problem de"nition, over the formulation of criteria, the quali"cation of potential suppliers, to the "nal choice among the quali"ed suppliers. Moreover, we propose decision methods and techniques that previously have not been suggested in a purchasing context. The proposed methods speci"cally accommodate for buying situations for which few or no decision models were published so far. This paper extends previous reviews by Weber et al. (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 50 (1991) 2), Holt (Int. J. Project Mange. 16 (1998) 153) and Degraeve et al. (Eur. J. Oper. Res. 125 (1) (2000a) 34) in that it classi"es the models in a framework developed by De Boer (Ph. D. Thesis, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 1998) which recognises more steps in the buying process than only the "nal among quali"ed suppliers and accommodates for the diversity of procurement situations. 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.