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TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL
Volume 92, Issue 17-18, Pages 2947-2965Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0040517521992353
Keywords
DEA; AHP; TOPSIS; integrated framework; supplier selection; performance evaluation; apparel retail; case study
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Supplier evaluation is critical for apparel retailers in the global market, requiring consideration of both quantitative and qualitative aspects, as well as efficiency measurement. An integrated framework combining DEA, AHP, and TOPSIS techniques has been proposed to handle supplier selection and overall performance evaluation effectively. This approach emphasizes the importance of balancing efforts on important criteria for supplier success and the convenience of considering both quantitative and qualitative data for overall performance evaluation.
Supplier evaluation, including supplier selection and performance evaluation, has become a critical issue for apparel retailers within the apparel supply chain dealing with severe competition in the global market. An effective evaluation of suppliers requires considering both the quantitative and qualitative performance aspects and integrating the efficiency measurement. In an attempt to address this issue, this study proposes an integrated framework that can handle supplier selection and overall performance evaluation in a comprehensive but feasible manner. The proposed integrated framework customized for apparel retailers combines the current techniques having specific capabilities: data envelopment analysis (DEA), analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). DEA has been used to make the overall performance evaluation, whereas AHP and TOPSIS have been used in combination to provide the quantitative data required by DEA. The proposed integrated framework was implemented and verified using numerical data gathered from a global apparel retailer. The findings revealed that suppliers can be more successful when they put a balanced effort into improving their performance in regards to the important criteria instead of concentrating on only the most important criterion. Moreover, the overall performance evaluation can be much more convenient and rewarding for apparel retailers in terms of finding out the true potential of suppliers when quantitative and qualitative data and efficiency measurements are taken into account at the same time.
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