This paper proposes a novel form of supplier selection involving the supply chain dyad as the buyer and the suppliers as sellers. | Advanced supplier selection A hybrid multi-agent negotiation protocol supporting supply chain dyadic collaboration Decision Science Letters 8 2019 175 192 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Decision Science Letters homepage dsl Advanced supplier selection A hybrid multi-agent negotiation protocol supporting supply chain dyadic collaboration Maryam Nejmaa Firdaous Zairb Abdelghani Cherkaouia and Mohamed Fourkab aEMISys Team Engineering 3S Research Center Mohammadia School of Engineering Rabat Morocco bDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Sciences and Technics University of Abdelmalek Essaadi Tangier Morocco CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history This paper proposes a novel form of supplier selection involving the supply chain dyad as the Received March 12 2018 buyer and the suppliers as sellers. The main proposed contribution is a multi-attribute decision Received in revised format hybrid protocol for supplier selection based on collaboration and negotiation adapted to dyadic July 7 2018 collaboration in a supply chain context. Suppliers and the purchasing dyad can reach an Accepted July 7 2018 Available online agreement on the details of the products simultaneously and exploit the preferences of the July 7 2018 customer dyadic partner to enlarge the criteria choices of the products. For this the proposed Keywords protocol combines a one-to-one bilateral dyadic collaboration protocol inside the purchasing Supplier selection dyad along with a one-to-many multi-bilateral bargaining protocol between the purchasing dyad Multi-agent systems and suppliers. Illustrative multi-agent simulation experiments were carried out to prove the Dyadic collaboration effectiveness of the proposed protocol. The protocol implementation shows better negotiation Supply chain dyad results than the classic supplier selection process along with expected higher customer partner Hybrid negotiation protocol satisfaction and a more embedded dyadic .
