Article ID: | iaor20071795 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 104 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 394 |
End Page Number: | 407 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | O'Brien C., Amid A., Ghodsypoura S.H. |
Keywords: | programming: multiple criteria, fuzzy sets |
Within new strategies for purchasing and manufacturing, suppliers play a key role in achieving corporate competition. Hence, selecting the right suppliers is a vital component of these strategies. In practice, vagueness and imprecision of the goals, constraints and parameters in this problem make the decision-making complicated. In spite of the importance of the problem the literature on this subject is relatively scarce. In this paper a fuzzy multiobjective linear model is developed to overcome the vagueness of the information. For the first time in a fuzzy supplier selection problem, an asymmetric fuzzy-decision making technique is applied to enable the decision-maker to assign different weights to various criteria. The model is explained by an illustrative example.