Research on vendor selection in serviced-oriented manufacturing enterprises based on FWNN

To cope with complexity and new demands for vendor selection in service-oriented manufacturing enterprises, a strategy for vendor selection applying FWNN (fuzzy wavelet neural network) was presented in this paper. The strategy, which combines fuzzy theory with artificial neural network effectively, consists of two parts. The first part makes full use of fuzzy system, with strong competency in knowledge representation, to convert fuzzy input parameters into crisp parameters. And the artificial neural network was applied to overcome adverse effects resulting from vendor selection of non-liner and dynamic property in the second part. In addition, the simulation was made to check the performance of the algorithm based on FWNN. The simulation results indicate that this method can implement real-time dynamic evaluation and rapid selection under the service-oriented manufacturing environment.