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Application of Analytical Network Process (ANP) for Ranking Suppliers and Related Decisional Factors in Supply Chain

In response to ever increasing and escalating competition, shorter product life cycle, and rapid change of customerʹs demand, more companies have emphasized and focused on supply chain management as a tool to reach long term competitive advantage. One of the important parts of supply chain management is evaluation, ranking and selection of suppliers. This process is originally is a multi criteria decision making. Supplier selection problems are complex problems which have many qualitative and quantitative concerns. Considering the multi criteria nature of supplier selection, Analytical network process (ANP) can be used as a powerful and reliable model. Also, analytical network process can be use as a decision analysis tool to solve multi-criteria supplier selection problems that contain interdependencies. ANP is a complex methodology and requires more comparisons than the traditional AHP that increases the effort. To show the application of the proposed model a case as an example, is proposed. The result shows the final ranking and related factors for decision making that can be used by decision makers to select strategic supplier.