A study on CBR-based supplier selection under networked manufacturing

Supplier selection is the precondition to implement networked manufacturing. The method of case-based reasoning (CBR) was used to evaluate supplier. There are some evaluation factors such as price, quality, production capacity, network information level, networked condition and credit in supplier selection. Then the proposed method involves establishing source cases warehouse, describing historic suppliers, and retrieving the source case for the target case by calculating similarity degree. Also, the networked manufacturing-based supplier choosing process was analyzed from four aspects: demands generation, supplier selecting strategy analysis, supplier evaluation and supplier cooperation implement. At last, a numerical example is presented to illustrate the method.