A New Web-based Method for Partner Selection in the Agile Virtual Enterprise

In view of inconsistency of the judgment matrix gotten by pairwise comparison between increasing alternatives in nowadays agile virtual enterprise (AVE) partner selection and evaluation problem by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), a new Web-based method combining the AHP and other basic fuzzy theory was proposed, in which the priority weights of decision criteria in every level of hierarchy structure were identified by the AHP and the attribute-values of every alternative were determined by fuzzy relation matrix, then synthesizing them to obtain the evaluation result. An application system based on the method was developed, and a real case study of selecting AVE partners demonstrated its application and examined its effectiveness. The result indicates that the proposed method not only solves the problem of inconsistence of judgment matrix effectively, but also makes it easier for the evaluation team to arrive at a consensus decision, obtain fair and reasonable conclusions and examine the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives by comparing them with respect to appropriate criteria