Supplier selection in manufacturing innovation chain-oriented public procurement based on improved PSO method
Abstract: At the dynamic
innovation market, it is very difficult for an enterprise to accomplish
innovation individually; technology innovation is shifting towards
collaborative R&D chain mode. Thus, supplier selection based on
individually innovation efficiency of enterprise is inapplicable to construct
collaborative R&D innovation chain. This study is seeking to address how to
select R&D innovation chain supplier in manufacturing industry.
Design/methodology/approach: Firstly, Delphi method and AHP method are
applied to establish an index system evaluating the suppliers of innovation
chain, and then each index is weighted by experts with AHP method. Thirdly,
optimized PSO algorithm is put forwarded based on the optimal efficiency of
innovation chain to discriminate ideal suppliers meeting realistic conditions.
Fourthly, innovation chain construction at generator manufacturing industry was
taken as empirical case study to testify the improved PSO model.
Findings: The innovation chain is comprised up by several enterprises,
innovation performance of a single enterprise is not always positively
correlated to that of one innovation chain, and the proposed model is capable
to find out the best combination to construct an innovation chain.
Research limitations/implications: The relations between these constructs
with other variables of interest to the academicals fields were analyzed by a
precise and credible data with a clear and concise description of the supply
chain integration measurement scales.
Practical implications: providing scales that are valid as a diagnostic
tool for best practices, as well as providing a benchmark with which to compare
the score for each individual plant against a chain of industrial innovation
from machinery.
Originality/value: Innovation chain integration is an important factor in
explaining the innovation performance of companies. The vast range of results
obtained is due to the fact that there is no exactness to the group of scales
used. An analysis of the measurement models nor clear benchmarks as to the
variety of the scales used has not been published before.
Keywords: Public procurement,
Innovation policy, Innovation chain-oriented public procurement, Policy design
Author: Xin Xu, Yunlong Ding
Journal Code: jptindustrigg140034
