Supplier Selection Under E-Business Using FIS
Atefeh Amindoust
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ali Saghafinia
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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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.
Keywords: e-business; FIS; decision makers assessments
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