Selecting the Best Supplier by Considering Supply Chain Management Strategy and Utilizing Uncertainty Parameters

Resumen

Today, the intensity of competition in market has forced companies to consider supply chain management strategy (SCMS) deployment and its modern methods in order to achieve competitive advantages. Supplier selection, among critical supply chain processes, plays a leading role in determination of quality and prime cost of final products. In this paper fuzzy analytic network process is proposed to select the best supplier in SCMS, because of its capability of taking into account the relationships of feedback and dependences among criteria, along with eliminating the interactivity of expert subjective judgment using linguistic terms to handle the uncertain nature of parameters. Keywords: Supply chain management strategy (SCMS), Fuzzy set theory, Analytic network process (ANP), Supplier selection.