Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Ranking of Suppliers - Case Study Analysis
Journal Title: Logistics and Transport - Year 2018, Vol 39, Issue 3
Abstract
The article presents a coherent methodology of a multiple criteria evaluation of suppliers in furniture industry covering: the definition of a set of variants - laminated chipboards suppliers, the definition of a consistent family of criteria that allows for their comprehensive evaluation, modelling of decision maker’s (DM’s) preferences (including: the definition of the importance of criteria and the DM’s sensitivity towards changes of criteria values), and finally computational experiments resulting in the final ranking of suppliers. Six suppliers have been taken into consideration. In the family of criteria evaluating the suppliers, 9 measures have been taken into account. These have included, among others: product price, product quality, timeliness and reliability of delivery or cost of delivery. In the computational phase a selected MCDM/A ranking method which is Electre III/IV has been applied.
Authors and Affiliations
Barbara Galińska, Riccardo Rossi
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP489768
- DOI 10.26411/83-1734-2015-3-39-8-18
- Views 71
- Downloads 0
Wybrane aspekty transportu intermodalnego
In the article the Author presents the concept of intermodal transport on the background of the concepts of multimodal and combined transport. Through describing advantages and disadvantages of this transport mode some s...
The Impact of Illegal Population Migration on the Risk Assessment of Freight Transport Carried Out by Polish Carriers
Launched in 2010, the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ caused an increased migration of people from both the Middle East and Africa to Europe. In the face of such a large number of refugees, the European Union announced a migrati...
The application of simple simulations of loading operations for the chosen container terminal
Intermodal transport and especially container shipments have been characterized by a dynamic growth, both in Poland and globally. One cannot ignore the importance of technical preparation and organization of terminals wh...
Risk Management in a Logistic Enterprise
This article deals with the conceptual approach to the management of enterprises which create conditions for rationalisation and improvement of the business activities, not only in logistic enterprises. In addition to ma...
Some remarks on the method of cross-influence of events
The sufficient condition of existence and uniqueness of forecasts made by the method of cross-influence of events is formulated and proved. This result is ilustrated by the forecasts of the volume of road transport in Po...