Title: Supplier selection and evaluation using interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy AHP method

Authors: Hossein Sayyadi Tooranloo; Asiyeh Iranpour

Addresses: Assistant Professor of Management Faculty, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Iran ' Department of Management, Faculty of Management, University of Science and Arts, Yazd, Iran

Abstract: Supply chain management (SCM) is one of the most important competitive strategies used by modern enterprises. The main aim of supply chain management is to integrate various suppliers to satisfy market demands. To this end, supplier selection and evaluation plays an important role in establishing an effective supply chain. However, it is a hard problem since supplier selection is typically a multi criteria group decision-making problem involving several conflicting criteria on which decision-maker's knowledge is usually vague and imprecise. The current study proposes an AHP method combined with interval intuitionistic fuzzy set to select appropriate supplier in group decision-making environments. A numerical example for supplier selection has been provided to illustrate application of the proposed interval intuitionistic fuzzy AHP method.

Keywords: supplier selection and evaluation; analytic hierarchy process; AHP; interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPM.2017.086399

International Journal of Procurement Management, 2017 Vol.10 No.5, pp.539 - 554

Received: 12 Feb 2016
Accepted: 29 Jul 2016
Published online: 10 Sep 2017 *

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