Vol: 4, Issue: 4 2014

Page: 13-27

Supplier Selection Under E-Business Using FIS

Atefeh Amindoust, Ali Saghafinia

Received Date: 2014-08-13

Accepted Date: 2014-09-14

Published Date: 2014-10-15

In the present global markets which are speedily changing and dynamic under e-business, the success of firms rely on the appropriate suppliers. In this paper the supplier selection factors (criteria and subcriteria) are derived through literature which supports the supplier selection process in an e-business environment. Then, a methodology is proposed onto evaluation and ranking of a given set of suppliers. In the evaluation process, decision makers’ opinions on the importance of deciding the criteria and subcriteria, in addition to their preference of the suppliers’ performance with respect to sub-criteria are considered in linguistic values. To cope with the subjectivity of decision makers’ assessments, fuzzy logic has been applied and a modular fuzzy inference system (FIS) approach is proposed for the supplier selection problem under e-business. Finally, a numerical example is applied to show the feasibility of the proposed method.

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