Selection of supplier by analytic network process at supply chain management and an application

Competition increased with today’s rapid technological development and globalization. This competition of businesses forces to produce higher quality, lower cost and timely product/service. The most appropriate supplier/suppliers selection is an important problem evaluation the performance of supplier in this context. In the solving problem, The Analytic Network Process (ANP) one of methods of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is used for supplier selection problem of conflicting quantitative and qualitative depending to more than one factor. In the study, suppliers ranked and evaluated their performance and decided to set up the infrastructure for decision making with seven main criteria and fifteen sub criteria.