Research Article

Supplier Selection by Coupling-Attribute Combinatorial Analysis

Table 3

What-if analysis based on the change of lead time of suppliers.

The lead time of componentsThe production mode change

Short101100011111101001111101011001111
101100011111101001111101011001111
001100011111101001111101011001111
001100011111101001111101011001111
000100001110101001111101000000111
000100001110101001111101000000111
000100001110101001111101000000111
Long000100001110101001111101000000111

Notes. Changed factors of component shown in bold character; “1” means MTO; “0” means MTS; the components are sequenced as ; the customer delivery time is fixed, equal to 30 days.