Abstract
Article history: Received May 12, 2013 Received in revised format 12 September 2013 Accepted 6 October 2013 Available online October 11 2013 During the past few years, there have been increasing trend on building appropriate model for supplier selection and a good supplier, indeed, is capable of providing better quality products, which could lead to increase the productivity of an organization. In this paper, we present an empirical investigation to find the effect of monitoring three different standards, namely, domestic, national and international standard on improving the quality of products in water and sewage projects. The proposed model of this paper designs a questionnaire and distributes it among some experts in a rural Water & Sewage firm located in city of Ahvaz, Iran. Using the Pearson correlation ratio, the study examines three hypotheses of the survey and the results indicate that there were poor relationship between carefully considering domestic, national and international standards and improvement on quality of products offered by various suppliers. In addition, job experience and type of employment also do not seem to have any meaningful effect on quality assessment of suppliers. © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
Initial buying decisions such as make-or-buy decisions and supplier selection play essential role on the success of business units (De Boer et al, 2001)
The method was motivated by the purchasing problem of heating electrodes at Cockerill Sambre, a Belgian multinational steel producer where quality issues account for over 70% of the total cost of ownership making the quality of a supplier a critical success factor in the supplier selection process
The application process has been investigated in a food unit established in Istanbul, Turkey and the model building, solution and application processes of the proposed integrated model for supplier selection were discussed in details
Summary
Initial buying decisions such as make-or-buy decisions and supplier selection play essential role on the success of business units (De Boer et al, 2001). The method was motivated by the purchasing problem of heating electrodes at Cockerill Sambre, a Belgian multinational steel producer where quality issues account for over 70% of the total cost of ownership making the quality of a supplier a critical success factor in the supplier selection process. Ghodsypour and O'brien (1998) are believed to be the first who presented an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method for ranking various suppliers based on different criteria. They first used AHP to find the relative importance of various criteria and they used a simple linear programming technique to decide the amount of goods ordered from each supplier. The application process has been investigated in a food unit established in Istanbul, Turkey and the model building, solution and application processes of the proposed integrated model for supplier selection were discussed in details
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