A new MCDM method for a supplier selection problem with interval-valued 2-tuple linguistic preferences

Competitive advantages connected with supply chain management (SCM) can be accomplished by vital joint effort with suppliers and service providers. The achievement of a supply chain is exceedingly subject to determination of appropriate suppliers. Multiple criteria should be considered while selecting suppliers in SCM. The supplier selection issue has gotten significant consideration in the academic research and literature. This paper proposes a new multi-criteria model in view of interval valued 2-tuple linguistic preferences and compromise solution for appraising supplier s performance. Because of the supply chain experts’ diverse foundations and inclinations, some of which may be imprecise and uncertain. Also, a case study from the recent literature is given by the proposed decision model under uncertain conditions

Keywords:

Interval valued 2-tulpe , linguistic preferences , decision model , supplier selection