Modeling supplier selection and the use of individual advantage characteristics for high-quality supply chain design

Without considering the individual advantage characteristic of different suppliers, the existing method of the supplier quality evaluation, and/or supplier selection, had mostly been used in the same scale with the idea of the "Uniform". This essay improved the existing method of the supplier quality evaluation, proposing a method based on individual advantage characteristic. According to the idea of goal programming and q-norm distance, weight coefficient was determined from the angle which is the most propitious to evaluated object. On the basis, an evaluation model based on individual advantage characteristic was constructed. The method proposed in this essay considered the individual advantage characteristic of different suppliers, which could lead the enterprises to identify the individual advantages of the different suppliers and choose the most suitable supplier for them for high-quality supply chain design.