A Bayesian network model for resilience-based supplier selection

Seyedmohsen Hosseini and Kash Barker

International Journal of Production Economics, 2016, vol. 180, issue C, 68-87

Abstract: Supplier selection is an important strategic decision in the context of supply chain management. Existing literature on the subject of supplier selection is focused on evaluating primary (e.g., cost, quality, lead time) and green (e.g., CO2 emission, environmental practices) criteria. However, the concept of supplier resilience has recently emerged due to advent of competitive and global supply chains (and the operational and disruptive risks to which they are exposed). Several resilience-based supplier selection criteria are developed with respect to absorptive, adaptive, and restorative capacities. This paper further proposes a Bayesian network (BN), a paradigm that effectively models the causal relationships among variables but that has not been used in the context of supplier evaluation and selection, to quantify the appropriateness of suppliers across primary, green, and resilience criteria. Some benefits of the BN paradigm, including an ability to handle expert evidence and to perform sensitivity and propagation analyses, are demonstrated with an initial illustrative example of three suppliers.

Keywords: Resilience; Supplier selection; Bayesian network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2016.07.007

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