INTEGRATING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE FACTORS IN SUPPLIER SELECTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Authors

  • Pınar Kaya Samut Atilim University
  • Hande Erdoğan Aktan Akdeniz University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7166/30-2-1955

Keywords:

Fuzzy Analytic Network Process, Data Envelopment Analysis, Super Efficiency Model, Supplier Selection, Renewable Energy, Wind Power Plant

Abstract

Companies need to cooperate with reliable and high-performing suppliers of goods and services, and build mutual long-term relationships in order to sustain their existence and increase their market share. An engineering manager can determine the most effective strategy in supplier selection by the proposed model, which allows an integration of objective values and the uncertainty of human judgements. A two-stage integrated fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) and super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is proposed and applied to a wind turbine project of a company operating in the renewable energy sector. At the first stage of the methodology, the weights of the qualitative criteria were determined by using FANP. At the second stage, the qualitative supplier selection criteria that were converted into quantitative criteria with FANP were used as outputs; and cost (which was already a quantitative criterion) was used as an input in the DEA, by way of which the performances of the suppliers were assessed. This study, which includes decision-making, performance management, and supply chain management issues, introduces a new approach, both in terms of the sector referred to and the methodology that enables companies to select the best suppliers by assessing both qualitative and quantitative factors.

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Author Biographies

Pınar Kaya Samut, Atilim University

Department of Management

Hande Erdoğan Aktan, Akdeniz University

Department of Management Information Systems

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Published

2019-08-30

How to Cite

Kaya Samut, P., & Erdoğan Aktan, H. (2019). INTEGRATING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE FACTORS IN SUPPLIER SELECTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 30(2), 146–160. https://doi.org/10.7166/30-2-1955

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