DEA-Based Benchmarking Models In Supply Chain Management: An Application-Oriented Literature Review

Ertek, G., Akyurt, N., Tillem, G., 2012, “Dea-based benchmarking models in supply chain
management: an application-oriented literature review”, X. International Logistics and Supply
Chain Congress 2012, November 8-9, Istanbul, Turkey.

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DEA-BASED BENCHMARKING MODELS IN SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT: AN APPLICATION-ORIENTED LITERATURE REVIEW

Gürdal Ertek1, Nazlı Akyurt2, Gamze Tillem3

Abstract ⎯ Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical methodology for
benchmarking a group of entities in a group. The inputs of a DEA model are the resources
that the entity consumes, and the outputs of the outputs are the desired outcomes generated
by the entity, by using the inputs. DEA returns important benchmarking metrics, including
efficiency score, reference set, and projections. While DEA has been extensively applied in
supply chain management (SCM) as well as a diverse range of other fields, it is not clear
what has been done in the literature in the past, especially given the domain, the model
details, and the country of application. Also, it is not clear what would be an acceptable
number of DMUs in comparison to existing research. This paper follows a recipe-based
approach, listing the main characteristics of the DEA models for supply chain management.
This way, practitioners in the field can build their own models without having to perform

1
Gürdal Ertek, Assistant Professor, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tuzla, İstanbul, Turkey,
2
Nazlı Akyurt, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tuzla, İstanbul, Turkey,
3
Gamze Tillem, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tuzla, İstanbul, Turkey,
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detailed literature search. Further guidelines are also provided in the paper for
practitioners, regarding the application of DEA in SCM benchmarking.

Keywords ⎯ Data envelopment analysis (DEA), supply chain management (SCM), survey
paper

INTRODUCTION

Supply Chain Management

Mentzer et al. (2001) define supply chain as “a set of three or more entities (organizations or
individuals) directly involved in the upstream and downstream flows of products, services,
finances, and/or information from a source to a customer” and identify three degrees of supply
chain complexity: A direct supply chain consists of a company, its upstream neighbors (suppliers),
and its downstream neighbors (customers, being consumers or intermediary vendors). An
extended supply chain includes the complete chain, from the ultimate suppliers to the ultimate
customers. An ultimate supply chain is one where all the organizations (even the financial
providers and the market research firms) involved in all the upstream and downstream flows of
products, services, finances, and information within the supply chain. Mentzer et al. (2001) define
supply chain management (SCM) as “the systemic, strategic coordination of … the supply chain,
for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the individual companies and the
supply chain as a whole.”

SCM is important because effective supply chain strategies be the most influential driving force
in the growth and success of companies. One classical example is the global retail giant Walmart,
which has become the largest public corporation on earth with respect to revenue (Forbes), with
more than 8,500 stores in 15 countries (Daniel, 2010). At the core of Walmart’s success lies
crossdocking, a supply chain strategy that eliminates most of the product storage and transforms
warehouses into transfer locations with minimal materials storage and material handling (Ertek,
2011).

The global logistics market grew by 7.3% in 2007 to reach a value of $805 billion. In 2012, the
global logistics market was forecasted to have a value of $1,040 billion, an increase of 29.3% in
only five years since 2007 (Datamonitor, 2010). Every physical product on the face of earth is

produced and delivered to its ultimate customer through a supply chain, and as the global world
population and the demand for physical products increases, the importance of SCM can only
increase. This is an important motivation and justification for increasing academic research on
SCM.

Benchmarking and DEA

The improvement of any system involves measurement of its performance in the dimensions of
interest. Many performance measurement systems are designed to present reports on a set of
selected performance metrics, also referred to as performance measures, performance indicators
or key performance indicators (KPI). Besides internal performance measurement, it is also
essential to compare the performance of the system with other systems of its kind. This
comparison of a set of systems or entities with respect to each other is referred to as
benchmarking.

Benchmarking can be carried out using qualitative and/or quantitative approaches. Ho et al.
(2010) present a comprehensive review of quantitative methods for multi-dimensional
benchmarking suppliers in a supply chain. The methods described in Ho et al. (2010) are
applicable not only for supplier benchmarking, but also benchmarking other types of entities in a
supply chain, such as supply chains, 3PL companies and warehouses.

Among the quantitative approaches, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is particularly
interesting and useful, due to its capability of multi-dimensional benchmarking and the usefulness
of the results in generates. The popularity of DEA (Emrouznejad, 2008) makes it a viable
alternative as a quantitative technique. DEA takes as model input a set of input and a set of output
values for a set of entities. These entities to be benchmarked are referred to as decision making
units (DMU). The primary output of a DEA model is the efficiency score for each DMU, which
takes a value between 0 and 1. Other results generated include the reference set and the
projections for each DMU. An extensive discussion of the DEA concepts, models and modeling
issues can be found in Cooper et al. (2006).

Gattoufi et al. (2004b) present a classification scheme for the DEA literature, based on the
following criteria: (1) Data source, (2) Type of the implemented envelopment, (3) Analysis, and (4)
Nature of the paper. Gattoufi et al. (2004a) is a comprehensive reference on the content analysis of
DEA literature and its comparison with operations research and management science fields.


Research Motivation and Scope

The reviews of both Gattoufi et al. (2004a) and Emrouznejad (2008) cite applications of DEA
within the domain of SCM. Some of these application papers, as well as others, contain review of
similar papers that apply DEA for benchmarking in SCM. However, there is a significant modeling
challenge for SCM practitioners who would consider using DEA: What should s/he benchmark,
and what inputs and outputs should s/he select?

This practical challenge can be paused as a research question, which calls for a literature survey
study:

“What has been done so far in journal papers for benchmarking in SCM using DEA?”

The goal of this paper is to list the main characteristics of the DEA models in the academic
journals. This way, practitioners in the field can build their own models without having to perform
detailed literature search.

The basic supply chain considered in the review will be the and the direct supply chain, as
described by Mentzer et al. (2001), involving only three successive stages: The company in the
middle, with its neighboring suppliers and customers. Throughout the paper, this will be the
terminology used. Any dyadic supply chain, involving only the supplier and buyer, is considered as
a subset of the direct supply chain.

The questions whose answers are investigated in this survey paper are as follows:

1) Which papers in the literature have used DEA for SCM?

2) What is the industry where the benchmarking is carried out?

3) What is the benchmarked DMU?

4) Which years does the data cover?

5) How many DMUs were included in the DEA model?

6) What is the country of application?

7) What are the inputs and the outputs in the DEA model?

8) How many inputs and outputs are used in the DEA models?

9) What is the nature of the inputs and outputs?

We believe that having the answers to the above questions will greatly facilitate the work of SCM
practitioners at all managerial levels on the enterprise. The answers to the questions are provided
in the tables and figures of this paper. Furthermore, the complete database constructed for the
paper is made available online as a supplement spreadsheet (Ertek et al. 2012).

In this section, the study has been motivated and introduced, and concise literature review has
been presented. In the Methodology section, the methodology applied while conducting the
literature survey is described. In the Results section, the results of the literature survey are
presented. Finally, in the Conclusions section, the study is concluded with a summary and
remarks.

METHODOLOGY

The initial motivation for this paper was to construction of a very comprehensive list of all the
DEA models applied in SCM. The process started with the definition of the table structure for the
database to be constructed. However, throughout the literature search process, the database
structure has been modified several times. The final version of the database, held in a spreadsheet,
is v29 (Ertek et al., 2012).

We decided early on that there are far too many papers related with our topic, and that we
should focus only on journal papers, discarding other publication types (conference papers, thesis,
etc.). While some conference papers go through a very rigorous review process before being
published, we subjectively decided that on the overall, it is harder to get a journal paper published
than any other publication types. We also decided that we should focus only on the recent papers,
and determined the year 2000 as the lower threshold for the year of publication. The two papers
before the year 2000 have been included solely because they contain the original data for the
models in post-2000 papers.

The literature search advanced as three sub-processes, with many interactions in between. 1)
The studies cited in the papers which were readily known by us were searched; 2) Internet search
was carried out using Google Scholar online service, as well as Emerald and Ebscohost databases.
The search terms were “supply chain and dea”, “logistics dea”, “supply logistics dea”; 3) Newer
studies that cite selected papers were searched using Google Scholar and ISI Web of Science.

Among more than 1000 search results sifted through, more than 2000 were skimmed, and 86
were analyzed thoroughly. Eventually, 41 papers were included in the list of cited papers in our
survey. Some of these papers used the same data set (Kleinsorge et al. (1992), Talluri and Sarkis

(2010), Saen (2008), Saen (2010)). These four papers (PaperID=1, 10, 27, 36) have the same
DataID of 1, as shown in Table 1 under the DataID column. The inputs and outputs of the DEA
models in these four papers are given in Table 5. Furthermore, two papers used not only the same
data but also used the same inputs and outputs (these two papers are shown in Table1 with
PaperID=24&30, and DataID=23). The inputs and outputs of these two papers are given in Table
6.

In any data-involving study, data cleaning is a very important inevitable step. After the
database was populated with the collected data, a careful and rigorous data cleaning was carried
out, based on the taxonomy of the dirty data by Kim et al. (2003).

One particular challenge in the construction of the summary table was the non-standard usage
of terminology. In some of the papers (Wu and Chien, 2008; Weber, 2000; Talluri et al, 2006; Liu
et al., 2000; Çelebi and Bayraktar, 2008) the term “vendor” was used to refer to the suppliers that
the company purchases parts/assemblies from. Therefore, the usage of the term “vendor” in these
papers had to be reflected in our tables as “suppliers”, since the term “vendor” in our paper refers
to downstream supply chain neighbors who purchase from the company, to sell to their customers.
In our database, there exists only a single paper that considers vendors as DMUs (Akçay et al.,
2012).

Another challenge was the inclusion of the contents of papers with more than one DEA model
within. This was the case for Liang et al. (2006) and Akçay et al. (2012) (PaperID=14 and 41,
respectively). For these two papers, only the first of the mentioned models was considered and
populated into the database.

Finally, while populating the database, when the inputs or outputs were not clearly stated in
the paper we assumed that there was only a single input of output.

RESULTS

The completed database consists of two main tables, which are PAPERS (Table 1) and
INPUTS_OUTPUTS (Table 2). In both tables, missing data was shown with blank cells or cells
with a “- ” sign. The entry “NA” refers to “Not Applicable”.

Papers and DMUs in the Models


The PAPERS table contains the fields PaperID, Year (publication year of the paper), Citation,
DataID (the unique ID for the data used in the paper), IsDataReal (whether the data is from the
real world or not), IsDataOpSurvey (whether the data is completely based on an opinion survey or
not), Industry (the industry where the application is made), DMU, DataBegin (the beginning year
for the data), DataEnd (the ending year for the data), NoOfDMUs (number of DMUs included in
the model), Country1 (the country where the model was applied) and Country2 (the guessed
countries as well as the known ones). PaperID is the key attribute for the table. The table, except
the fields IsDataReal, IsDataOpSurvey, and Country2, is given in Table 1.

Among the papers listed in PAPERS (Table 1), those with PaperID=12, 14, 20, 33 use syntetic
data, generated by the authors. For these four papers (rows in the table), the attribute IsDataReal
takes the value of Syntetic. For all other papers, IsDataReal takes the value of RealWorld, meaning
that the data is understood to come from the real world.

Among the papers listed in PAPERS, those with PaperID=11, 22, 35 use opinion surveys as the
source of data for the inputs and outputs. For these three papers (rows in the table), the attribute
IsDataOpSurvey takes the value of OpinionSurvey. For all other papers, IsDataOpSurvey takes the
value of DirectData, meaning that the data is not (at least completely) based on opinions expressed
in a survey.

Table 2 shows the distribution of number of models with respect to industry. Logistics is the
primary industry for which DEA models are constructed. Automotive and machinery industries are
also primary application areas.

Table 3 shows the distribution of number of models with respect to the DMU benchmarked.
Most of the DEA models for SCM consider the suppliers as the DMUs. Benchmarking of complete
supply chains ranks second with respect to popularity. Four papers, based on Kleinsorge et al.
(1992), consider the monthly data from a single 3PL company (rather than 3PL companies) as
DMUs. There are also four papers where warehouses are benchmarked.

Figure 1 shows the distribution of number of DMUs in the DEA models as a histogram. An
overwhelming majority of the models benchmark up to 20 DMUs. Only six of the 41 models
benchmark more than 40 DMUs. Therefore, if a DEA model for SCM includes more than 40
DMUs, it is within the top 30% of the models with respect to size.

The analysis of number of DMUs with respect to years has also been conducted, both as a
scatter plot (Figure 2) and a statistical hypothesis test, namely the Spearman correlation test. As


indicated by a p-value of 0.2643, there does not exist a statistically significant change through the
years in the number of DMUs considered in the models.

Inputs and Outputs in the Models

The INPUTS_OUTPUTS table contains the fields PaperID, IsInputOrOutput (is the ,
IO_Name, IO_Type. The three fields form the key in this table. Each row refers to the information
about a particular input or output in one of the models (each model is referred to with the PaperID
of the paper it is in). The table is given in Table 4.

As mentioned earlier, four of these papers used the same data set, coming from Kleinsorge et
al. (1992). The inputs and outputs for these four papers (PaperID=1, 10, 27, 36; DataID=1) are
given in Table 5. Furthermore, two papers used not only the same data but also used the same
inputs and outputs (PaperID=24&30; DataID=23). The inputs and outputs of these two papers are
given in Table 6.

Table 7 shows the number of inputs and outputs in each of the DEA models. Table 7 provides
two very important numbers, namely, the average number of inputs and outputs in the 41 models.
The average number of inputs is 3.42 and the average number of outputs is 2.39. Furthermore, the
median number of inputs is 3, and the median number of outputs is 2. This, we believe, is a very
important guideline for practitioners. A very important shortcoming of DEA is that it rewards
extreme behavior. In other words, if a DMU has a very low value for even one of its inputs, or a
very high value for even one of its outputs, one can expect it to have a high efficiency score.
However, the DMU may be doing very poor with respect to its other inputs or outputs. When the
number of inputs or outputs is too many, the percentage of “efficient” DMUs with efficiency scores
of 1 increases. The average values of 3.42 and 2.39 and the median values of 3 and 2 for the
number of inputs and outputs give us a good idea of when to stop adding new inputs or outputs: A
“typical” model should not have more than 3 inputs and 2 outputs. The number of inputs and
outputs used in literature is a major guideline for practitioners. Due to our work, practitioners can
know clearly how many inputs and outputs are typically used and can judge better if they are using
too many or too few inputs and/or outputs. If there are more inputs than outputs, a practitioner
can start with a DEA model with three inputs and one output. If there are less inputs than outputs,
a practitioner can start with a DEA model with one input and three outputs.


Figure 3 brings even more insights into the number of inputs and outputs to select: Figure 3
shows the distribution of number of inputs and outputs in the DEA models. The most frequent
selection for the number of inputs is 3. The most frequent selection for the number of outputs is 1.

The final analysis performed was the analysis of the input and output types. Table 8 shows the
distribution of types of data in the inputs and outputs. Here, the inputs and outputs were
categorized into one of 21 categories. Table 8 suggests that cost-related inputs are the most
popular. Quality-related inputs and inputs that consider the infrastructure of the DMUs in terms
of assets and/or underlying physical/managerial systems are also popular. With respect to the
outputs, quality-related outputs (which were defined to include inputs related with delivery
performance and service performance) are the most popular. Performance related outputs are also
very popular. Other popular types of outputs are those that summarize the product quantity
flowing through the DMUs and the revenue generated by the DMUs.

Selecting the papers only after 2000 has the side benefit of telling us what the important issues
in SCM are: Benchmarking suppliers and the complete supply chains is an important focus in the
post-2000 SCM literature. Cost is the most important focus as input. Quality is the most important
focus as output, but is also popularly considered as an input. Thus, while quality is considered as
the most popular output in the post-2000 academic studies (a performance goal to be reached), it
is also considered as the second most input (as a given factor that affects the company
performance).

CONCLUSIONS

This paper presented a detailed review of the DEA models applied in journal papers in the
domain of SCM. The survey includes 41 papers published between 1992 and 2012, all but two
published after 2000. Firstly, for each analyzed paper, basic information regarding the DEA model
in the paper has been presented as a database table. Next, in a second and more detailed database
table, information on the inputs and outputs of each model have been presented. The data has also
been analyzed to obtain some critical insights on DEA modeling for the domain of SCM.

Our study provides, for the first time in literature, answers to several important questions that
practitioners face as uncertainties and challenges. The answers to the questions are provided in the
tables and figures of this paper. Furthermore, the complete database constructed for the paper is
made available online as a supplement spreadsheet (Ertek et al. 2012). We believe that the results

presented in the paper, as well as the detailed data in the supplement will contribute to the
modeling projects of SCM practitioners at all managerial levels on the enterprise.

Supply chain practitioners in academia and industry now have a reference where they can look
up and learn the different types of DEA models that have been applied in the literature for SCM.
Starting with what they want to benchmark, namely, the DMU, they can observe the inputs and
outputs that have been selected in the studies that use that DMU. This can speed up the model
selection and construction, and also increase the reliability of the practitioners in their models,
since such models have been readily used in refereed journals.

FIGURE. 1

Distribution of number of DMUs in the DEA models


FIGURE. 2

Number of DMUs used in the DEA models over the years of publication


FIGURE. 3

Distribution of number of inputs and outputs in the DEA models


TABLE 1

Recent journal papers that implement DEA for benchmarking in SCM

PaperID Year Citation DataID Industry DMU DataBegin DataEnd NoOfDMUs Country1

1 1992 Kleinsorge et al. (1992) 1 Logistics 3PL Company 1988 1989 18

2 1996 Weber (1996) 2 Food Suppliers 1996 1996 6

3 2000 Braglia and Petroni (2000) 3 Machinery Suppliers 10

4 2000 Liu et al. (2000) 4 Machinery Suppliers 18

5 2000 Weber et al. (2000) 5 Manufacturing Suppliers

6 2001 Forker and Mendez (2001) 6 Electronics Suppliers 292 North America

7 2001 Hackman et al. (2001) 7 Logistics Warehouses 57 USA

8 2001 Narasimhan et al. (2001) 8 Telecommunications Suppliers 23

9 2002 Ross and Droge (2002) 9 Petroleum Warehouses 1993 1996 102

10 2002 Talluri and Sarkis (2010) 1 Logistics 3PL Company 1988 1989 18

11 2003 Haas et al. (2003) 10 Logistics Supply Chains 23 USA

12 2004 Ahn and Lee (2004) 11 TFT LCD Suppliers 7
Manufacturing


13 2006 Biehl et al. (2006) 12 Manufacturing Supply Chains 87 Canada

14 2006 Liang et al. (2006) 13 NA Supply Chains NA NA 10 NA

15 2006 Min and Joo (2006) 14 Logistics 3PL 1999 2002 6 USA
Companies

16 2006 Reiner and Hofmann 15 Across Industries Processes 65 Europe and
(2006) USA

17 2006 Talluri et al. (2006) 16 Fortune 500 Suppliers 6 USA
Pharmaceutical
Company

18 2006 Wang and Cullinane 17 Logistics Container 2003 2003 104 Europe
(2006) Ports

19 2007 Akdeniz and Turgutlu 18 Retailing Suppliers 2005 2005 9 Turkey
(N.D.)

20 2007 Korpela et al. (2007) 19 Retailing Warehouses 5


TABLE 1 (continued)

Recent journal papers that implement DEA for benchmarking in SCM

PaperID Year Citation DataID Industry DMU DataBegin DataEnd NoOfDMUs Country1 Country2

21 2007 Ramanathan (2007) 20 NA Suppliers 3 NA NA

22 2007 Wong and Wong (2007) 21 Semiconductor Supply Chains 22 Malaysia Malaysia

23 2008 Çelebi and Bayraktar (2008) 22 Automotive Suppliers 17 Turkey

24 2008 Ha and Krishnan (2008) 23 Automotive Suppliers 27 USA

25 2008 Koster and Balk (2008) 24 Logistics Warehouses 2000 2004 39 Netherlands Netherlands

26 2008 Ng (2008) 25 Machinery Suppliers 18 Hong Kong

27 2008 Saen (2008) 1 Logistics 3PL Company 1988 1989 18 USA

28 2008 Wu and Olson (2008) 26 NA Suppliers 10 USA

29 2008 Zhou et al. (2008) 27 Logistics 3PL Companies 2000 2004 10 China China

30 2009 Ha et al. (2009) 23 Automotive Suppliers 27 Korea

31 2009 Min and Joo (2009) 28 Logistics 3PL Companies 2005 2007 12 USA USA

32 2009 Ozdemir and Temur (2009) 29 Metal Suppliers 24 German German


33 2010 Azadeh and Alem (2010) 30 NA Suppliers 10 Iran

34 2010 Kang and Lee (2010) 31 Packaging Suppliers 9 Taiwan

35 2010 Kuo et al. (2010) 32 Electronics Suppliers 12 Taiwan Taiwan

36 2010 Saen (2010) 1 Logistics 3PL Company 1988 1989 18 USA

37 2010 Sharma and Yu (2010) 33 FMCG Processes 11 South Korea

38 2010 Tektas and Tosun (2010) 34 Food and Beverage Supply Chains 2007 2007 23 Turkey Turkey

39 2011 Jalalvand et al. (2011) 35 Broiler Supply Chains 7 Iran Iran

40 2011 Zeydan et al. (2011) 36 Automotive Suppliers 2007 2010 7 Turkey Turkey

41 2012 Akçay et al.(2012) 37 Automotive Vendors Turkey Turkey


TABLE. 2

Distribution of number of models with respect to industry

Industry Count

Logistics 11

Automotive 4

NA 4

Machinery 3

Electronics 2

Manufacturing 2

Retailing 2

Across Industries 1

Broiler 1

FMCG 1

Food 1

Food and Beverage 1

Fortune 500 1
Pharmaceutical Company

Metal 1

Packaging 1

Petroleum 1

Semiconductor 1

Telecommunications 1

TFT LCD Manufacturing 1


TABLE. 3

Distribution of number of models with respect to the DMU benchmarked

DMU Count

Suppliers 20

Supply Chains 6

3PL Company 4

Warehouses 4

3PL
Companies 3

Processes 2

Container
Ports 1


TABLE 4

Inputs and outputs in the reviewed papers

PaperID IsInputOrOutput IO_Name IO_Type

2 Input price Price

2 Input quality Quality

2 Input delivery Quality

2 Output efficiency Performance

3 Input financial position Asset

3 Input experience Experience

3 Input geographical location Geographical

3 Input profitability Profit


3 Input delivery compliance Quality

3 Output - NA

4 Input the price index Price

4 Input delivery performance Quality

4 Input distance factor Geographical

4 Output the number of parts that a suppliers supplies ProductVariety

4 Output the quality of parts Quality

5 NA NA NA

6 Input role of quality department System

6 Input role of mangement and quality policy System

6 Input product/service design System

6 Input employee relations Social


6 Input quality data and reporting System

6 Input training System

6 Input process management/operating procedures System

6 Input supplier quality management System

6 Output acceptable parts per million (APPM) Quality

7 Input labor Cost

7 Input space Asset

7 Input equipment Asset

7 Output movement Performance

7 Output storage Cost

7 Output accumulation Performance

8 Input quality management practices and systems System

8 Input documentation and self-audit System

8 Input process/manufacturing capability System

8 Output quality Quality

8 Output price Price

8 Output delivery Quality

8 Output cost reduction performance Performance


TABLE 4 (continued)



9 Input fleet size Asset

9 Input average experience Experience

9 Input mean order throughput time Time

9 Output product HH1 ProductQuantity

9 Output product SX2 ProductQuantity

9 Output product SD4 ProductQuantity

9 Output product HH4 ProductQuantity

11 Input annual cost of collecting and disposing of the solid waste stream Cost

11 Input annual recycling program administrative costs Cost

11 Input annual recycling program education and promotion costs Cost

11 Input annualized capital equipment costs Cost

11 Input annual cost of materials and supplies Cost

11 Input the size of the total solid waste stream Sustainability

11 Output quantity recycled Sustainability

11 Output percent of the solid waste stream recycled Performance

11 Output revenue from the sale of recyclables Revenue

11 Output recycling incentive payments Revenue

12 Input - NA

12 Output capacity Asset

12 Output price advantage Price


13 Input cost efficiency Attitude

13 Input order entry procedures Attitude

13 Input delivery schedules Attitude

13 Input product/service design Attitude

13 Input quality monitoring/ improvement Attitude

13 Output the supplier's satisfaction with the performance of the relationship Performance

13 Output the buyer's satisfaction with the performance of the relationship Performance

14 Input labor Employees

14 Input operating cost Cost

14 Input shipping cost Cost

14 Output number of product A shipped Shipments

14 Output number of product A shipped Shipments

14 Output number of product C shipped Shipments

15 Input account receivables Asset

15 Input salaries and wages of employees Cost

15 Input operating expenses other than salaries and wages Cost

15 Input property and equipment Asset

15 Output the overall performance of 3PLs Quality


TABLE 4 (continued)



16 Input production costs Cost

16 Input inventory costs Cost

16 Input logistics costs Cost

16 Input number of warehousing facilities Asset

16 Output delivery performance to request date Quality

16 Output Revenue Revenue

17 Input Price Price

17 Output quality performance Quality

17 Output delivery performance Quality

18 Input terminal length Asset

18 Input terminal area Asset

18 Input equipment costs Asset

18 Output container throughput ProductQuantity

19 Input markup Cost


19 Input selling history Revenue

19 Output purchased quantity ProductQuantity

20 Input direct costs Cost

20 Input indirect costs Cost

20 Output delivery time Time


20 Output urgent deliveries Time


20 Output quantity ProductQuantity

20 Output special requests Quality

20 Output frequency Shipments


21 Input total cost Cost

21 Output AHP weight for quality Quality

21 Output AHP weight for technology System

21 Output AHP weight for service Quality

22 Input internal manufacturing capacity Asset

22 Input cycle time Time

22 Input cost Cost

22 Output Revenue Revenue

22 Output on-time delivery rate Quality


TABLE 4 (continued)



23 Input Delivery Quality


23 Input Quality Quality

23 Input Service Quality

23 Output overall performance value Performance

25 Input number of direct FTE's Employees

25 Input size of the warehouse in square meters Asset

25 Input degree of automation System

25 Input number of different SKUs ProductVariety

25 Output number of daily order lines picked ProductQuantity

the level of value-added logistics activities carried out on a regular
25 Output basis Performance

number of special processes carried out to optimize warehouse
25 Output performance Performance

25 Output the percentage of error-free orders shipped Quality

25 Output order flexibility Performance

26 Input unity (1) Dummy

26 Output supply variety ProductVariety


26 Output 1 / distance Distance

26 Output delivery Quality


26 Output 1 / price index Price

29 Input net fixed assets including properties and equipment Asset

29 Input salaries and wages of employees Cost

29 Input operating expenses other than salaries and wages Cost

29 Input current liabilities Cost

29 Output the overall performance of 3PLs Performance

31 Input cost of sales Cost

31 Input selling, general and administrative costs (SG&A) Cost

31 Input depraciation and amortization Cost

31 Output revenue Revenue

31 Output C assets Asset

31 Output F assets Asset

31 Output O assets Asset

32 Input material quality Quality

32 Input discount on amount Cost

32 Input discount on cash Cost

32 Input payment term Time

32 Input delivery time Time

32 Output annual revenue Revenue


TABLE 4 (continued)



33 Input expected costs Cost

33 Input quality acceptance level Quality

33 Input on-time delivery distributions Performance

33 Output - NA

34 Input defect rate Quality

34 Input price Price

34 Input response-to-change time Time

34 Output on-time delivery rate Quality

34 Output process capability Performance



35 Input cost Cost


35 Input service Quality

35 Input environment Sustainability

35 Input corporate social responsibility Social


37 Input customer order cycle Performance

37 Input replenishment process cycle Performance

37 Input manufacturing cycle Performance


37 Input procurement cycle Performance


38 Input supply chain cost Cost

38 Input total inventory Asset

38 Input full-time employee number Employees

38 Output profit Profit

38 Output export Revenue

39 Input total costs Cost

39 Output cash-to-cash cycle time Time

40 Input unitary inputs for all units (dummy input) Dummy

40 Output quality management system audit System

40 Output warranty cost ratio Quality

40 Output defect ratio Quality

40 Output quality management Quality

41 Input spare parts area Asset

41 Input total expenses Cost

41 Input spare parts employees Employees

41 Output total revenue Revenue


TABLE 5

Inputs and outputs in the papers that use the same dataset as in PaperID=1
(Kleinsorge et al., 1992).


1 Input total cost Cost

1 Input number of shipments Shipments

1 Output number on time Quality

1 Output number of bills Orders

1 Output Experience Experience

1 Output Credence Performance

10 Input total cost per 100 shipments Cost

10 Input number of shipments Shipments

10 Output number of shipments arrive on time Quality

10 Output number of bills received from the suppliers without errors Orders

10 Output ratings for experience and credence Performance

27 Input total cost of shipment Cost


27 Input number of shipments per month Shipments

27 Input Distance Distance

27 Input supplier reputation Performance

27 Output number of shipments to arrive on time Quality

27 Output number of bills received from the suppliers without errors Quality

27 Output number of parts that supplier supplies ProductVariety

36 Input total cost of shipments Cost

36 Input price Price

36 Input supplier reputation Performance

36 Output number of bills received from the suppliers without errors Quality


TABLE 6

Inputs and outputs in the papers PaperID=24&30 (same dataset and model in both papers)


24 Input production facilities Asset

24 Input quality management intention Attitude

24 Input quality system outcome and claims Quality

24 Input response to claims Quality

24 Input on-time delivery Quality

24 Input organizational control System

24 Input business plans System

24 Input customer communication Social

24 Input internal audit System

24 Input data administration System

24 Output the factor quality system outcome Quality

30 *


TABLE 7

Number of inputs and outputs in the DEA models

PaperID Input Output Total

1 2 4 6

2 3 1 4

3 6 1 7

4 3 2 5

6 8 1 9

7 3 3 6

8 3 4 7

9 3 4 7

10 2 3 5

11 6 4 10

12 1 2 3

13 5 2 7

14 3 3 6

15 4 1 5

16 4 2 6

17 1 2 3

18 3 1 4

19 3 1 4

20 2 7 9

21 1 3 4


22 3 2 5

23 4 1 5

24 10 1 11

25 4 5 9

26 1 5 6

27 5 3 8

29 4 1 5

31 3 4 7

32 5 1 6

33 3 1 4

34 3 3 6

35 6 1 7

36 3 1 4

37 4 1 5

38 3 2 5

39 1 1 2

40 1 4 5

41 1 3 4

Average 3.42 2.39

Median 3 2


TABLE. 8

Distribution of types of data in the inputs and outputs

IO_Type Input IO_Type Output

Cost 35 Quality 26

Quality 18 Performance 17

Asset 16 ProductQuantity 8

System 15 Revenue 8

Performance 7 Asset 6

Price 7 Shipments 4

Attitude 6 Price 3

Time 5 ProductVariety 3

Employees 4 Time 3

Shipments 3 Orders 2

Social 3 System 2

Dummy 2 Cost 1

Experience 2 Distance 1

Geographical 2 Experience 1

Sustainability 2 Profit 1

Distance 1 Sustainability 1

ProductVariety 1 Attitude 0

Profit 1 Dummy 0

Revenue 1 Employees 0

Orders 0 Geographical 0

ProductQuantity 0 Social 0


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors thank Gulcin Buyukozkan at Galatasaray University and Alp Eren Akçay at Carnegie
Mellon University for their literature review on the topic, which was published in earlier paper
(Akçay et al., 2012) with the first author, which provided us with some of the references in the
study.

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