A Study on Supplier Evaluation in Product Research & Development Based on Agile Manufacture

In agile manufacture system, the strategic focus of enterprises is shifting from the traditional model in production to a created model due to the changes in the manufacturing environment, more enterprises cut across the boundary of enterprises to develop new products with the joint quantitative enterprisers in agile manufacture . Hegemony enterprise needs a rapid & synthetic qualitative & quantitative evaluation and selection method for potential suppliers in the supply chain. This paper integrates the DEA-based objective method and the ANP-based subjective method in a new decision model for ANP&DEA based supplier evaluation. The paper explains the mathematical analysis in the specific case of a product-end manufacturer to confirm the model.