Supply Chain Management

¿¿There is no production without raw materials and there are no raw materials without supplier, these facts call to have a good supplier selection plan by eliminating all the major riks¿¿The industrial context has been profoundly modified in recent decades, companies are refocusing on what is their core competency, and keep the key elements of their value chain and outsource, subcontract or relocate other functions. However, the economic boom in emerging countries has greatly favored these relocations and the use of suppliers located in countries with low labor costs. Under these conditions, production problems have become more and more complex, such situations increased complexity of the logistics chain, makes the various links more exposed at multiple risks. These risks originate not only from the external environment or the internal organization of each actor, but are also linked to the interactions between the various actors in the logistics chain. We can retain that the optimization constraints are numerous: the sensitive nature of the factors involving a disruption of suppliers in production, the highly competitive nature of the market, price volatility, reduced margins...