An Extended Fuzzy AHP Based Partner Selection and Evaluation for Aeronautical Subcontract Production

Aviation subcontract production (SP), the particular manufacturing mode of aeronautical manufacturing, is an important instrumentality participated in market competition, but the key step formed the SP alliance is the partner selection and evaluation. In order to improve the ability to solve partner selection and evaluation problems, such as increasing alternatives, increasing info fuzziness, and unconsidering the characteristic of the total task and the idiographic sub-task of each partner in the process on evaluating target system and decision-making approach of partner selection and evaluation for aeronautical SP, as well as to solve the inconsistence of differ judgment matrix set up in similar multi-alternative evaluation problems caused by AHP or other fuzzy AHP approaches. An evaluating targets system and multiple objects decision-making model in partner selection were put forward. An extended fuzzy AHP model based on the combination of the fuzzy AHP and the trigonometrical fuzzy number (TFN) was proposed. Compared with the AHP, the proposed model combines subjective analysis with quantitative analysis more reasonably, synthesizes group opinions more adequately.