Abstract

There is a growing interest in the food service industry at present. The problem of supplier selection brings forward the important issue of supply chain management. The paper tries to find how to select the upstream suppliers. This has become the main problem to develop the supply chain in food service industry. In this paper data envelopment analysis would be used for supplier selection in supply chain. A supplier selection index system based on chain catering industry was developed, and the relevance between indexes was reduced through factor analysis. Suppliers can be analyzed with the decision making model. Furthermore, to achieve the dynamic selection of supplier, life cycle of enterprise development was introduced, which made contribution to the integration of supply chain. Finally, the method of supplier dynamic selection was tested and verified by a numerical example. The result shows that this supplier selection method would be applicable to chain catering industry and the dynamic management of suppliers.

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