A New Strategy In Supplier Selection Process By Utilizing FANP As An Appropriate Tool

Resumen

Nowadays, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a vital issue which companies are forced to deal with. Considering SCM processes, supplier selection is prominent and the affection of supplied raw materials and assembled parts on end users satisfaction cannot be denied. The presented paper focuses on second layer suppliers which have been overlooked in supplier selection procedures. Therefore the process has performed by considering some features of suppliers in second layer. The model is solved using FANP method which has been fed with real data and results represented that features of second layer suppliers are as important as first layer‘s. Keywords: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Supplier Selection, Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (FANP)