Joint Supplier Selection and Product Family Optimization in Supply Chain Design: A Literature Review

In order to incorporate the customer into the early phase of the product development cycle and to better satisfy customers' requirements. A need for effective integration of suppliers into the product value/supply chain will be a key factor for achieving this goal. Various decision making approaches have been proposed to tackle the problem. This paper provides an extensive review the literature of integrated product family design with supplier selection problem that arises in the design of a multi-products supply chain, with particular reference to the influence of customer flexibly.