This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Preference Ranking Organisation MeTHod for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods. Building upon this analysis, recommendations are formulated to integrate into PROMETHEE a number of useful AHP features, especially as regards the design of the decision-making hierarchy (ordering of goals, sub-goals...

Supplier evaluation and selection is one of the most important components of an effective supply chain management system. Due to the expanding competition in healthcare, selecting the right medical device suppliers offers great potential for increasing quality while decreasing costs. This paper proposes a fuzzy decision making approach for medical supplier selection. A real-world medical device...

In today’s competitive business world, it is extremely important for decision makers to have access to decision support tools in order to make quick, right and accurate decisions. One of these decision making areas is supplier selection in e-procurement. Supplier selection is a multi-criteria decision making problem that deals with the optimization of conflicting objectives such as quality, cos...

due to the importance of supplier selection issue in supply chain management (scm) and ,also,  the increasing tendency of organizations to their social responsibilities, in this paper, we survey the supplier selection issue as a multi objective problem while considering the factor of corporate social responsibility (csr) as a mathematical parameter. the purpose of this paper is to design a mode...

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are becoming a vital device in wide-area monitoring, operation, and control. The allocation of PMU at each bus will make that directly observable. However, considering the high installation costs, it is not feasible to place bus. Thus, placing PMUs optimal locations extremely important. In this study, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluati...

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In their basic form, multicriteria decision making problems have a simple structure: given a finite number of decisions and a finite number of criteria, each decision is evaluated on each criterion, resulting in some outcome such as profit, environmental impact, sales, or expected costs. Most often, these evaluations are assumed to be quantitative. As dominances rarely occur and multidimensiona...

in recent years, supply chain management has developed into one of the most critical strategies for achieving competitive advantage in different industries and the supplier selection process has increasingly been distinguished as an important and vital decision in supply chain management of manufacturing and service industries. on the other hand, with so many suppliers having different capabili...