Supply Chain Partner Selection under Cloud Computing Environment: An Improved Approach Based on BWM and VIKOR

Sen Liu,Yingying Zhang,Yanan Hu

doi:10.1155/2018/7012827

Abstract

The wide application of cloud computing technology makes supply chain partner share information effectively and increase corporate profits. However, in cloud computing environment, the evaluation process of supply chain partner selection is dynamic and fuzzy, and its evaluation index is uncertain. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a new method combed with rough number, best-worst multicriteria decision-making method (BWM), and compromise ranking method (VIKOR). Firstly, Rough number is used to integrate data from different evaluation matrix. Secondly, rough number improves a new method, BWM, to get RBWM criteria weight methods. Thirdly, the rough numbers are introduced into VIKOR and combined with RBWM to evaluate and sort the supply chain partners. Finally, an example is given to demonstrate the rationality and feasibility of the method.

Highlights

With the development of economic globalization, the real competition is no longer the competition between enterprises and enterprises, but the competition between supply chain and supply chain
This paper proposes a new method combed with rough number, best-worst multicriteria decision-making method (BWM), and compromise ranking method (VIKOR)
The third step is the selection stage, we introduce RVIKOR to evaluate and sort the supply chain partners based on S, R, and Q on the environment of cloud computing

Summary

Introduction

With the development of economic globalization, the real competition is no longer the competition between enterprises and enterprises, but the competition between supply chain and supply chain. Chain management (SCM) can effectively promote the production, distribution, and logistics of enterprises, and become an important strategy for modern enterprises in the fierce market competition [1]. As each firm has an inherent participation in one or more supply chains, so an effective supply chain is very important [2,3,4]. One of the major challenges for focal firm in supply chain is partner selection [5,6,7]. The scientific selection of suitable supply chain partners for focal firm has a significant impact on the overall supply chain performance

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