TY - JOUR
AU - Dickson, Gary W.
AB - An Analysis Of Vendor Selection Systems And Decisions GARY w. DICKSON University of Minnesota The problems associated with deciding how one vendor should be selected from a number of potential alternatives recently has re­ ceived a substantial amount of consideration by people in the pur­ chasing profession. From the purchasing literature, it is fairly easy to abstract a list of at least 50 distinct factors (characteristics of vendor perfonnance) that are presented by various authors as being mean­ ingful to consider in a vendor selection decision.' Each authority sug­ gests about five or ten items, and close analysis shows considerable variation in the factors that are considered appropriate for the evalua­ tion of potential suppliers. Not only is there little agreement upon what factors should be considered when selecting a vendor, there has been little attention focused upon the way in which the nature of the purchase affects the decision. It seems very reasonable to assume that the factors consid­ ered when selecting a vendor for nuts and bolts are not the factors that are appropriate when selecting a supplier for a computer. Further­ more, no system has been developed to show how, in any particular instance, the pertinent 
TI - An Analysis Of Vendor Selection Systems And Decisions
JF - Journal of Supply Chain Management
DO - 10.1111/j.1745-493X.1966.tb00818.x
DA - 1966-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/an-analysis-of-vendor-selection-systems-and-decisions-ESapfBX7Kh
SP - 5
EP - 17
VL - 2
IS - 1
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