Affiliations: Department of Business Administration, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC | Department of Marine Leisure Management, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC | Department of Information Management, Chinese Naval Academy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
Abstract: Supplier selection plays a key role in supply chain management that has received increasing emphasis at every place and has become an important strategic issue for its benefit. Researchers regarded the supplier selection process as a central issue in management decision. In fact, it can be viewed as a fuzzy multiple-attribute decision-making (FMADM) problem. However, in the past, few articles utilized FMADM methods to deal with the problem of supplier selection. In this paper, we identify empirically the quantitative and qualitative attributes and their corresponding importance weightings for selecting suppliers. Furthermore, a FMADM approach is employed to choose an optimum supplier from all possible supplier candidates.
