Abstract
AbstractSupplier selection is one of the most important activities of an industry. The goal of present paper is to exhibit key elements of supplier selection and ranking of potential suppliers. A bearing manufacturing company was considering two criteria of suppliers selection, i.e., quality rating and service rating. In the current paper, six criteria have been considered instead of two for improving the supplier’s selection process which are product quality, product cost, location, delivery time, information system and service rating. First of all, the key factors involved in supplier selection have been identified, a survey has been conducted for data collection from purchase department in the company. Fuzzy AHP method and fuzzy TOPSIS method are used to calculate the criteria weights for the suppliers’ selection and to determine the ranking of the suppliers. The contribution of this study is to give improved suppliers’ selection process to the company.KeywordsFuzzyAHPSuppliersSelection
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