A study of the partner selection and evaluation for aviation subcontract production based on fuzzy AHP and TFN approach

In order to improve the ability to solve partner selection and evaluation problem, such as increasing alternatives, increasing info fuzziness, and unconsidering the characteristic of the total task and the idiographic sub-task of each partner in the process on evaluating target system and decision-making approach of partner selection and evaluation for aviation subcontract production (SP), as well as to solve the inconsistence of differ judgment matrix set up in similar multi-alternative evaluation problems caused by AHP or other fuzzy AHP approaches. An evaluating targets system and multiple objects decision-making model in partner selection were put forward. An extended fuzzy AHP model based on the combination of the fuzzy AHP and the trigonometrical fuzzy number (TFN) was proposed, and an illustrative example to select the SP partner demonstrated application and examined its effectiveness.