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Operations and Supply Chain Management
California State University, San Bernardino
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
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An Adaptive Supplier Selection Mechanism In E-Procurement Marketplace, Liangjun You, Dong-Qing Yao, Riyaz T. Sikora, Barin Nag
An Adaptive Supplier Selection Mechanism In E-Procurement Marketplace, Liangjun You, Dong-Qing Yao, Riyaz T. Sikora, Barin Nag
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
B2B e-commerce has fundamentally changed the way in which an organization purchases goods/service. Nowadays, the adoption of e-procurement, which means the electronic acquisition of goods/service, has been prevalent in supply chain management. A variety of supplier selection models have been developed in supply chain management literature. In this research, an adaptive supplier selection mechanism is proposed to help buyers evaluate suppliers in an e-marketplace. A Multi-Agent System simulation package of Repast is used to create a realistic environment where different kinds of suppliers and buyers equipped with the proposed selection model can interact so as to study the performance of …