Supplier Selection with Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: Trends in the Literature, Bibliometric Analysis, Future Recommendations

In today's business world, where global competition is becoming ever more intense, a company's success depends largely on the strategic partnership it enters into with its suppliers. Viewing relationships with suppliers from a strategic perspective is of great importance for companies in order to expand their longterm competitiveness and achieve sustainable success. In this direction, proper selection and effective management of suppliers play a crucial role in a variety of ranging from financial performance to product quality. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the research trends, development, and future potential research areas of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods in supplier selection. To this end, existing key topics and gaps in the literature were identified by focusing on research articles in two scientific databases published between 2020 and 2024. The results show that the integration of hybrid approaches and fuzzy logic with MCDM methods delivers significantly reliable results in decisionmaking processes. In addition, these findings provide theoretical and practical contributions by offering guidance to managers on supplier selection and are a valuable reference source for researchers and practitioners in the field.

Journal

INTELLIGENT AND FUZZY SYSTEMS, INFUS 2025, VOL 1

Year

2025

Volume

1528

Pages

772-780

ISSN

2367-3370

eISSN

2367-3389

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-97985-9_85

WoS UID

WOS:001587459200085