An Application of the AHP in Supplier Selection of Maintenance and Repair Parts

The supplier selection of maintenance and repair parts is very important for the maintenance of complicated equipments, as it is a multi-item, multi-person and multi-criteria decision problem. Among the recorded literature, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been recognized as an appropriate approach to solve the above problem, which helps several decision-makers with different conflicting objectives to arrive at a consensus decision. In this paper, an innovative model which based on the AHP method is formulated and it can be applied to provide a framework for the organization to select a supplier that satisfies the customer specifications. We also could change the assessment indicator system a little to apply the framework supplied by our selection model in any other industry.