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A literature review of criteria selection in supplier
Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management
JIEM
2013-0953
A Literature Review of Design of Criteria for Supplier Selection
Agus Ristono 0 1
Pratikto 0 1
Purnomo Budi Santoso 0 1
0 Brawijaya University , Indonesia
1 , Ishardita Pambudi Tama
Purpose: This paper proposes a new model for further research on how to select criteria in supplier selection, through a literature review and analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of previously used methods. Design/methodology/approach: The methods used to select criteria in supplier selection were extracted from various online academic databases. The weaknesses and advantages of these methods were then analyzed. Based on these findings, several opportunities for improvement are proposed for further research. Finally, criteria design methods for the selection of suppliers are proposed using statistical multicriteria decision making (MCDM) methods. Findings: Direction and guidance for subsequent research to select the criteria used in supplier selection, based on the advantages and disadvantages of the decision methods used. Research limitations/implications: Limitations of this study are that it is focused on the methods of criteria design in the supplier selection. Practical implications: This study can provide a research direction on the design of criteria for supplier selection. Social implications: This study provides ongoing guidance and avenues for further research. Originality/value: New ideas for working out the developmental strategy for criteria selection are provided by statistical-MCDM methods in the supplier selection.
criteria selection; supplier selection; criteria; method
1. Introduction
The goal of supplier selection processes is to get the best supplier for a particular situation. Which supplier is
“best” depends on several factors, all of which must be assessed and weighed. Generally, the supplier selection
process involves three basic stages. The first stage is identification and selection of criteria that will be considered in
the selection of suppliers. The second stage is the determination of methods for the assessment of suppliers based
on these criteria. The last stage is the selection of suppliers based on the assessment results. Most of the research
papers in the field of supplier selection, although they do explain how their decision criteria were determined, most
always focus on the second stage in the process of selecting suppliers. Therefore, there are also many literature
reviews related to supplier selection methods that also focus on the second stage as well.
Ho, Xu and Dey (2010
) review in detail the use of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in the selection of
suppliers, based on research articles from 2000 to 2008.
Masi, Micheli and Cagno (2013
) analyzed supplier selection
techniques used up to 2013, based on two dimensions: the level of difficulty in managing the purchase and the
impact of the purchase on the project.
Chai, Liu and Ngai (2013
) review the literature on the application of
methods of decision making in the systematic selection of suppliers, using articles from 2008 up to 2012.
Igarashi,
de Boer and Fet (2013
) review articles on the selection of green suppliers, ranging from 1991 to 2011, categorizing
them either as analytical research or empirical research. Govindan, Rajendran, Sarkis and Murugesan (2015)
reviewed published research of green supplier selection from 1997 to 2011.
This paper analyses the gaps in the current literature and then to identify improvements for future directions in the
green supplier selection process.
The reviews discussed above only focus on discussing the methods used in the selection of suppliers. There is a
need for a review of supplier selection criteria and methods relating to the determination of these criteria, as these
are vitally important to the success of the later steps and overall outcome. As discussed in this review, we
comprehensively collected the literature associated with the keywords “selection of supplier criteria” and “selection
of vendor criteria” in the academic databases. This research then tried to answer the following three questions: (1)
What are methods that are often used in selection of supplier criteria? (2) What are future research opportunities in
selection of supplier criteria? And (3) What are framework model which appropriate in the selection of supplier
criteria?
The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents the research methodology, describing the methods for
selecting the literature used. In Section 3, we analyze methods used in selection of supplier criteria. Section 4 gives
advice for the future. We conclude this paper in Section 5.
2. Steps of this Research
The steps of this literature review are depicted in Figure 2. The goal of this research was the investigation the
application of supplier criteria selection in the current research. The first step was online searching from academic
databases including E (...truncated)