TY - GEN
T1 - Supplier selection using modified fuzzy AHP-based approach in manufacturing networks
AU - Li, Nan
AU - Saadat, Mozafar
AU - Jules, Guiovanni
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Due to the economy recession all around the world, the performance of manufacturing industry has been significantly affected. The question of how to generate fast response to customers, maintain the high quality, accurate delivery rate and low risk become the crucial issue of keeping a company competitive. Supplier selection, one of the key factors for a successful production process has attracted more attention in the recent decade. This research aims to understand the supplier selection procedure in Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) manufacturing networks. Statistical method Kernel density estimation is integrated with Fuzzy AHP for the first time to improve the accuracy for the evaluation of suppliers against quantitative criteria. Data and information are collected from a central company which coordinates manufacturing networks of SMEs as an industrial case study. As a result, the proposed statistical analysis method for supplier evaluation with respect to quantitative criteria could successfully assist decision makers and reduce the potential bias from a visual aspect in the decision making process.
AB - Due to the economy recession all around the world, the performance of manufacturing industry has been significantly affected. The question of how to generate fast response to customers, maintain the high quality, accurate delivery rate and low risk become the crucial issue of keeping a company competitive. Supplier selection, one of the key factors for a successful production process has attracted more attention in the recent decade. This research aims to understand the supplier selection procedure in Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) manufacturing networks. Statistical method Kernel density estimation is integrated with Fuzzy AHP for the first time to improve the accuracy for the evaluation of suppliers against quantitative criteria. Data and information are collected from a central company which coordinates manufacturing networks of SMEs as an industrial case study. As a result, the proposed statistical analysis method for supplier evaluation with respect to quantitative criteria could successfully assist decision makers and reduce the potential bias from a visual aspect in the decision making process.
KW - Fuzzy AHP
KW - Manufacturing network
KW - Statistical analysis
KW - Supplier selection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84872386260&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6378007
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6378007
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872386260
SN - 9781467317146
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 1847
EP - 1852
BT - Proceedings 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2012
Y2 - 14 October 2012 through 17 October 2012
ER -