A Novel Approach to Find Patterns of Supplier

Supplier selection and evaluation are one of the most critical activities of a company in today´s competitive business world. Partnering with the suppliers has become a key factor to the success of an organization. The selection of supplier, satisfying different evaluation criteria, is therefore of main importance and builds the topic of this paper. This selection process is a difficult decision and optimization problem, such as data mining technology. This paper utilizes an integrated approach to find the interesting pattern of supplier. This research has employed a numerical example for the explanation of the proposed approach, and the results show that the method is effective and applicable for supplier selection. In short, the approach provides a new route to guide the further research concerning supplier research.