PMID- 37519742
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20230801
IS  - 2405-8440 (Print)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Electronic)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 7
DP  - 2023 Jul
TI  - Addressing the supplier selection problem by using the analytical hierarchy 
      process.
PG  - e17997
LID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17997 [doi]
LID - e17997
AB  - ACI Pharma spends $ 12 to 15 million yearly to promote its brands. The brand 
      promotional activities of the company were hampered, due to supplier selection 
      subjectively, which impacted market share. The study selects the best supplier 
      with supplier management and purchasing policy for printing materials for ACI 
      Pharma based on objective judgments. The required data has been collected from 
      the company. This study uses the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to address 
      supplier selection and management problems. Five attributes, cost, quality, 
      delivery, flexibility, and communication, and ten suppliers have been evaluated 
      to select the best supplier. Spark Printers is the best supplier for ACI Pharma 
      as it obtains the highest score, 0.968, whereas Marvelous Printers Limited and 
      Lutfur Enterprise are the second-best and third-best suppliers. The application 
      of AHP in the pharmaceutical supply chain industry is very limited. Further, 
      Previous studies emphasized supplier selection rather than management and 
      purchasing policy. Moreover, industry practitioners, especially in developing 
      countries, might not use complex methodologies due to time, money, or technical 
      constraints. Considering these thoughts, this study is conducted to select and 
      manage the right supplier with purchasing policy using AHP in industry-friendly 
      language and analysis patterns. Other organizations suffering from similar 
      problems, such as ACI Pharma, may benefit from this research. The study has 
      selected AHP, purposively, without any methodological justifications, although 
      many Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques are present. Further 
      studies might be conducted to find which MCDM method fits best to address the 
      supplier selection problem in the pharmaceutical supply chain industry.
CI  - (c) 2023 The Author.
FAU - Manik, Mehedi Hasan
AU  - Manik MH
AD  - Marketing Insights, Advanced Chemical Industries (ACI) Limited, Dhaka, 
      Bangladesh.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230711
PL  - England
TA  - Heliyon
JT  - Heliyon
JID - 101672560
PMC - PMC10372370
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Analytical hierarchy process
OT  - Best alternative selection
OT  - Criteria of supplier selection problem
OT  - Leverage item
OT  - Multi-criteria decision-making
OT  - Purchasing policy
OT  - Supplier management technique
OT  - Supplier selection in pharmaceutical industry
OT  - Supplier selection technique
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing interests.The authors 
      declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal 
      relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this 
      paper.
EDAT- 2023/07/31 06:42
MHDA- 2023/07/31 06:42
PMCR- 2023/07/11
CRDT- 2023/07/31 04:39
PHST- 2023/03/31 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/07/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/07/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/07/31 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/07/31 06:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/07/31 04:39 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/07/11 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2405-8440(23)05205-2 [pii]
AID - e17997 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17997 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Heliyon. 2023 Jul 11;9(7):e17997. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17997. eCollection 
      2023 Jul.