A New Method of Supplier Selection Based on TOPSIS and 2-Tuple Linguistic

Author

Li, Zhaoling

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Qingdao Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Qingdao

fYear

2008

fDate

18-18 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

168

Lastpage

171

Abstract

Supplier selection is a multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problem. A new method based on TOPIS and 2-tuple linguistic is proposed. Due to the vagueness and imprecision of the decision makers´ judgment, 2-tuple linguistic is introduced to represent and aggregate the linguistic evaluation information of the experts, and then the TOPSIS method is improved to deal with the information in the form of 2-tuples and used to select the best supplier from the alternatives. Finally, the performance of the proposed method is illustrated and validated with a numeric example.

Keywords

decision making; operations research; supply chain management; 2-tuple linguistic; TOPSIS method; linguistic evaluation information; multiple attribute decision making; supplier selection; Aggregates; Biomedical engineering; Data envelopment analysis; Decision making; Educational institutions; Information science; Mathematical programming; Seminars; Supply chain management; Supply chains; 2-tuple linguistic; MADM; TOPSIS; supplier selection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future BioMedical Information Engineering, 2008. FBIE '08. International Seminar on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3561-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FBIE.2008.18

Filename

5076711