Selection of Suppliers Based on Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision Making

Selection of suppliers is the precondition and foundation of supply chain operation. It is an important aspect to choose the best supplier for supply chain management. This paper is aimed to present a fuzzy decision-making approach to deal with the supplier selection problem in supply chain system. During recent years, how to determine suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of these decisions usually is complex and unstructured. Especially, some decision-making data is undefined, vague and fuzzy data. In this paper, linguistic values are used to assess weights for Selection of supplier. This paper describes a fuzzy AHP (fuzzy analytic hierarchy process) to determine the weighting of subjective judgments. Then the best supplier can be derived with the grey relation model. The authors further combine the grey relation model based on the concepts of fuzzy distance to evaluate and select the best supplier.