Applying The Fuzzy Analytic Network Process Approach For The Selection Of Suppliers/ A Case Study In Ur General Company

Abstract

The research aims to use one of the multi-criteria decision tools, which is the entrance to the fuzzy network analysis, to select the suppliers that the company should choose to provide it with the raw materials it needs to carry out its production activities related to the production of midwives. The research was based on a number of main criteria, which are six criteria (quality, cost, reliability, delivery, ethics and financial position) and binary comparisons were extracted to determine the importance of these criteria. A computer program based on the Matlab language was designed to apply the entrance and get the importance of the sub-criteria and take the opinions of eight experts in the company to get the results.

The researcher reached a set of results, the most important of which is the need to choose the suppliers by focusing on the quality standard and the reliability standard, as it is the most important in choosing them to provide the company with the materials it needs to enter into the manufacture of the product that enables it to compete with other companies operating in the same industrial sector.