英语翻译

Recently,supplychainmanagementandthe

supplier(vendor)selectionprocesshavereceived

considerableattentioninthebusiness-managementliterature.

Duringthe1990s,manymanufacturers

seektocollaboratewiththeirsuppliersinorderto

upgradetheirmanagementperformanceandcom-

petitiveness(Inneretal.,1999;Shinetal.,2000).The

materialflowinasupplychainisshowninFig.1.

Thepurchasingfunctionisincreasinglyseenasa

strategicissueinorganizations.Buyerandsupplier

relationshipsinmanufacturingenterpriseshave

receivedagreatdealofattention.Whenitisbuilton

long-termrelationships,acompany'ssupply

chaincreatesoneofthestrongestbarrierstoentry

forcompetitors(Briggs,1994;ChoiandHartley,

1996).Inotherwords,onceasupplierbecomes

partofawell-managedandestablishedsupply

chain,thisrelationshipwillhavealastingeffecton

thecompetitivenessoftheentiresupplychain.

Therefore,thesupplierselectionproblemhas

becomeoneofthemostimportantissuesfor

establishinganeffectivesupplychainsystem.The

overallobjectiveofsupplierselectionprocessisto

reducepurchaserisk,maximizeoverallvalueto

thepurchaser,andbuildtheclosenessandlong-

termrelationshipsbetweenbuyersandsuppliers

(Monczkaetal.,1998).

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