Supplier Selection Methodology

摘要

The modern perspectives in all business types are shorter product life cycles, growing product complexity and variety and persistent expectations for lower prices. These conditions increase the importance of logistics as a complex system that incorporates the three major phases of the production cycle - supply of raw materials, parts and units, machining and assembly and storing and delivery. The paper aims to create a methodology and open-source software for supplier selection as part of an integrated logistics information system. The software will be used for educational purposes. It will allow the learners to change key parts of the software and compare the results. The software module should contain methodology for choosing the important criteria for supplier selection, assignment of weight coefficients for each criterion, estimation of the weighted total assessment of each supplier and a sample testing of the methodology with the created software module.