A FUSSY APPROACH FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE SUPPLIER SELECTION

Assessment and selection of suppliers are two most omportant tasks in the purchasing part in supply chain management . Supplier selection can be considered to be a single or multi-objective problem . From another point of view, it can be a single or multi-sourcing problem . In this paper, an integrated AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS model is probosed to solve the supplier selection problem . This model makes the decision maker to be able to solve this problem with different criteria and different weight for each criterion with respect to the purchasing strategy. Finally , the proposed model is illustrated by an example.

Keywords:

supply chain management , supplier selection , fuzzy set theory , multiple-criteria decision making