Control of Supply Risk Based on Ranking Foreign Suppliers Using Pattern Search Weighted Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation
Essential characteristics of foreign suppliers are identified that should be considered in the supplier selection process to control supply chain disruption risk in the manufacturers assembly operation. Since that the tangible and intangible characteristics are integrated in the supplier-ranking procedure and the multi-criteria evaluation system is introduced while the weight of each criteria may not be known in advance, in this paper, the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation(FCE) is employed to settle the prompt break skip illogicality of the membership degree of supplier performance to a reliability level, and the pattern search algorithm (PSA) is imposed to figure out the significant weights to make full use of existing well-known benchmark supplier selected by consultants and manufacturers executives in group-decision rather than completely subjective preferring determination by persons.A case study is presented in which a manufacturer ranks its current foreign supplier against two other potentials based on criterions of supply reliability. The outcome illustrates the practicality of the pattern search weighted FCE methods application in the selection strategy of foreign business partners.
supplier selection supply chain risk control pattern search algorithm group decision-making fuzzy comprehensive evaluation
Lei Yang Cheng Liu Zhiyong Zhang Yongqiang Shi
Department of Logistics Engineering and Management, School of Economics and Commerce South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, P.R.China
国际会议
三亚
英文
1663-1667
2009-04-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）