Evaluation of Suppliers in Supply Chain Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques

In the current business conditions, organizations pay more attention to the supply chain and its management in order to achieve a higher level of market share and customer satisfaction, so that the competition between companies has appeared in the competition between supply chains. One of the most important and vital elements in the supply chain is the selection of the supplier, and the change in the attitude of companies in this matter, both in terms of procedures and evaluation criteria, is significant over time. By reviewing past articles and researches, many different approaches and models were observed in this field. But the need for a more complete method that can answer all the requirements of the supplier selection and ranking process was felt. The importance of the supply chain in meeting the needs of the final customer and the multiplicity of suppliers as the main part of this chain has made the selection of the supplier one of the main steps in the discussion of product development. In this research, an attempt has been made to rank the suppliers of a company in Iraq using the fuzzy prioritization technique. Based on the obtained results, the best Supplier will be the second supplier.

Keywords:

Linear Goal Programming , Suppliers , Supply Chain , VIKOR